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… Site of a meeting house and marae affiliated with both Ngāti Rarua and Ngāti Toa. Wairau Bar Locality at the mouth of the Wairau …
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Part of story: Marlborough places
… and Tūrongo, the parents of Raukawa, the founder of the Ngāti Raukawa iwi. According to Tainui traditions, Tūrongo … Tainui and the peoples of Te Tai Rāwhiti, especially Ngāti Kahungunu. Tūrongo returned to the Waikato, followed …
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Part of story: Love and romance
… Bay, Mataora and Manaia. All that glitters Hori Watene of Ngāti Tamaterā testified to the MacCormick Commission in … a leading role in gold negotiations between 1867 and 1875. Ngāti Tamaterā of Ōhinemuri, under their chief Te Hira Te …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… In 1959 Māori in London set up the cultural group Ngāti Rānana (the London tribe). In the early 21st century, Ngāti Rānana was a thriving kapa haka group. …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… exchanges between these papers ended in March 1863, when Ngāti Maniapoto chief Rewi Maniapoto led a party to seize … ki Hiku rangi had Niniwa-i-te-rangi, a woman of mana of Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne, as an editor and contributor. …
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Part of story: Māori newspapers and magazines – ngā niupepa me ngā moheni
… on land gifted by a prominent chief of the local tribe, Ngāti Kahungunu. In the early 20th century Ngāti Whakaue of Rotorua gifted land to the Crown, and in …
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Part of story: Golf
… to make maro of seaweed to wear. Dressed to impress When Ngāti Whare ancestor Whare-pakau sought to identify his … to ensure a successful harvest. Clothes maketh the man A Ngāti Kahungunu story tells how a warrior party waited for …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… Te Arawa from 1835 to 1845. He led Ngāi Tūkairangi against Ngāti Hē in the Ōhuki land dispute at Tauranga from 1856 to … the war in Waikato in 1863–64 Wiremu Tamihana Tarapīpīpi of Ngāti Haua requested his help, but he is said to have …
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… Kaiawe, near Waireia, northern Hokianga, in 1851. He was of Ngāti Te Reinga of Waihou, and Te Rarawa ; his hapū, Te … recognition of the services of Rikihana and his people to Ngāti Whatua. The block became the township site. However, …
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… over leasehold rights between runholders Airini Donnelly (a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana married to an Irish settler) … end of Ocean Beach (also known as Waipuka) is owned by the Ngāti Mihiora hapū (subtribe). Access to the beach is via …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… grand-daughter of the redoubtable Hāriata Pītini-Morēra, of Ngāti Kurī of Kaikoura, and her husband, Hoani. Her paternal … Wharetutu married labourer Alexander William Reid of Ngāti Porou, with whom she had one daughter. He died in a …
Type: Biography
… km east of Te Awamutu. During the 1840s and 1950s people of Ngāti Hinetū and Ngāti Apakura, with local Anglican and Catholic …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… in 1949. In 2019 it was a general-purpose hospital run by Ngāti Porou Hauora, the major health provider for the Ngāti Porou district. The Williams family built Puketītī …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… was instrumental in securing peace between Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe in the late eighteenth century. His father, … and married Kohuwai, the grand-daughter of Raki-ihia of Ngāti Māmoe, and a resident of Murikauhaka, the village at …
Type: Biography
… which involved representatives from Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāi Takoto and Ngāti Kurī. Another was Ngāi Tahu involvement with the Toitū …
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Part of story: Māori and museums – ngā whare taonga
… river was a taonga (treasure) of the tribes of Tainui and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. Ngāti Tūwharetoa has interests in the ‘Taupō waters’, …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… (waterbirds like swans, ducks and geese). A battle between Ngāti Tūwharetoa and local hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu was fought on Lake Roto-a-Tara in the 1820s. …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… in 1828, the eldest son of Īhaka Whaanga , a prominent Ngāti Rākaipaaka and Ngāti Kahungunu leader, and his wife, Te Haka Rākātō. He was …
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… Islands, on 11 September 1912, to Meriana Ngāpohe Rāwiri of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāi Tahu , and her husband, Te Wera … to regain his fluency in Māori and became involved with the Ngāti Poneke Young Māori Club. For this work he received the …
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… and Māori-language expert Tīmoti Kāretu of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu, haka provides a platform for its composer … When asked to explain the art of performing haka, the Ngāti Porou haka master Henare Teowai replied, ‘Kia kōrero …
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Part of story: Kapa Haka