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… from Hāmua and Rangitāne; he also claimed to belong to Ngāti Te Tau. The missionary William Colenso believed him to … with government. By the late 1840s Tiakitai had allowed Ngāti Kerei and related hapū to take up residence at … Māori self-government and control over land. A party of 200 Ngāti Raukawa from the west coast visited Matua to declare …
Type: Biography
… of Wiremu Kīngi Te Aweawe. His main tribal affiliation was Ngāti Hineaute of Rangitāne , and he had connections to Muaūpoko, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri, Hāmua and the Wanganui tribes. His …
Type: Biography
… Tāmati Taiapa, were of Te Whānau-a-Hinerupe, a hapū of Ngāti Porou. His mother was also connected to Te Whānau-a-Te … the secrets of Te Arawa carving skills to students from Ngāti Porou. On inspection of the work at Rotorua Ngata … significance for him as a spiritual centre of his own Ngāti Porou people. From 1934 Pine worked intermittently on …
Type: Biography
… After the wars Te Pairi married Te Maromako, a woman from Ngāti Hinekura of Waikaremoana. They had seven children: … In the late 1920s he and Hōri 'Mau Taiaha' Hōhua of Ngāti Koura had an epic battle with this weapon at Tauarau … Te Poroporo pā close to Whakatāne he clashed with the local Ngāti Pūkeko exponent. Less skilled men were quick to defer …
Type: Biography
… Northland. He was of Ngāpuhi descent, with connections to Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Popoto, Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Kurī hapū. Hone was the son of …
Type: Biography
… was founded were not auspicious for its future. Ngāti Kaipoho and Ngāti Maru of Rongowhakaata had been opposed to the move … There was sympathy for Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke , and Ngāti Porou were divided for and against the Māori king, but …
Type: Biography
… settler Salvatore Cimino were made honorary members of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe. There are more than 2,000 Māori–Italian …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Italians
… Ra‘iātea, an island in Tahiti, is said to be Rangiātea. The Ngāti Raukawa ancestor, Tūrongo, gave the name Rangiātea to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Hawaiki
… for a moko was Mihi Kōtukutuku, of Te Whānau-a-Apanui and Ngāti Porou descent. During her adolescent years some …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Tā moko – Māori tattooing
… Toi can be found with the Mataatua peoples, particularly Ngāti Awa of the Whakatāne district. Here there are numerous …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… was through Te Herekiekie of Tokaanu, a senior chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and leader of Ngāti Te Aho. His grand-daughter Rangiamohia married John …
Type: Biography
… Lewis, a European storekeeper, and Paretekōrae Poutama of Ngāti Maniapoto . Sometime after the birth of Michael's … in formulating its policy. He was chairman of the Ngāti Poneke Māori Association from 1950 until his …
Type: Biography
… at Tuahiwi in Canterbury. Her father was Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe chief Hēnare Kokoro Tiratahi of Waipōpō, near … Namana, who died as a young child. Her hapū included Ngāti Huirapa, Ngāi Tūāhuriri and, through her mother, Ngāti Pūneke. In later life she was often known as Taua …
Type: Biography
… a sheepfarmer, and his wife, Maraea Kiwiwharekete of Ngāti Kahungunu . The family hapū was Ngāti Rongomaiwahine. His grandfather was John Davies Ormond …
Type: Biography
… he went to Foveaux Strait, probably about 1831, at the time Ngāti Toa besieged Kaiapoi pā. In late 1836 or early 1837 he was with Tūhawaiki in the attack on Ngāti Tama raiders at Tūtūrau and is credited with firing the shot which killed Ngāti Tama leader Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi . In 1838 he …
Type: Biography
… November and December 1835. Thereafter he was enslaved by Ngāti Tama and taken by them in turn to Waitahi, Ngātikitiki, and finally Kaingaroa, where he belonged to the … Rohana (also known as Tini Waihe), who had been a slave of Ngāti Mutunga on the Auckland Islands from 1842 to 1856. …
Type: Biography
… 1913, one of 19 children of Frederick Augustus Bennett of Ngāti Whakaue of Te Arawa , and his second wife, Arihia … Taranui (Major Fox), a leading pro-government chief of Ngāti Pikiao in the New Zealand wars. At six months of age … was not over yet. In 1978, with other prominent members of Ngāti Pikiao, he laid a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal , …
Type: Biography
… he met Manutūkē Sadlier of Te Whānau-a-Te Uruahi hapū of Ngāti Porou. They married on 22 September 1945 in Tīnātoka … song was composed for him by Waiharakeke Waitere of Ngāti Apa. Īhaka again combined his ministry with a variety … and was appointed a tutor for adult education classes at Ngāti Pōneke Māori Club. He was president of the Wellington …
Type: Biography
… A direct descendant of Ngāti Te Whiti and Ngāti Tāwhirikura chiefs who controlled Petone, Ngauranga … belonged to senior families of Te Āti Awa , Taranaki and Ngāti Ruanui, with connections to most of the iwi of …
Type: Biography
… of Te Āti Awa and his mother Whetowheto of Ngāti Ruanui. With his father, and with Te Āti Awa leaders … was the leader at Kumutoto. Te Āti Awa, compared with Ngāti Toa and Ngāti Raukawa who had also moved into the region, generally …
Type: Biography