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… the Upper Hutt basin until 1820, when the most recent, Ngāti Ira, were decimated by a war party of musket-bearing …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wellington places
… in the tauihu (prow). The historian Hoani Nahe recalled two Ngāti Maru waka taua – Otuiti and Okunui – in the late …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waka – canoes
… values and ancestral knowledge and practices. According to Ngāti Awa elder Hāmiora Pio, the knowledge of weaving began …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… Te Ruakawhena Kohu, both of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, a hapū of Ngāti Ranginui . The springs at Ngāhina pā were a tapu … education. Her mother, Hikuwai Kohu, was the daughter of Ngāti Ranginui chief Parāone Koikoi, who had been brought … sense of personal satisfaction came from the Waikato–Ngāti Maniapoto decision to support dedication of his thesis …
Type: Biography
… a great-grand-daughter of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu and was of Ngāti Te Whiti and Ngāti Tāwhirikura (hapū of Te Āti Awa), and also of Ngāti Ruanui. Wī Hapi was a great-grandson of the whaler …
Type: Biography
… century, and his third wife, Roka. He belonged to Ngāti Koura and Ngāi Te Riu through his father, and had links with Ngāti Hinekura and Te Urewera through his mother. Takurua … there, the land was set aside as a cemetery for the hapū of Ngāti Koura. Te Iki Pouwhare , a younger Tūhoe leader, wrote …
Type: Biography
… Mere Hautonga Nicoll (also known as Mary Nichols) of Ngāti Toa, was the daughter of Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi , one … Treaty of Waitangi. His father, Wiremu Naera Pōmare, was of Ngāti Mutunga, and had connections with Te Āti Awa. He was … Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington Harbour), but quarrels with Ngāti Toa led to his taking the dissatisfied Ngāti Mutunga …
Type: Biography
… and support writing by Māori. Paula Morris Paula Morris (Ngātiwai) had a successful academic background and worked in … Māori who settle overseas. Kelly Ana Morey Kelly Ana Morey (Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri) originally worked as an … Tina Makereti Tina Makereti (Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maniapoto) has published short stories in literary …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… not only my trade, but my life.' Burns was protected by a Ngāti Kahungunu chief whom he called 'Awhawee', whose … temporary absence of most of the tribe, the neighbouring Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti threatened to steal Burns's remaining …
Type: Biography
… Mary Carroll were daughters of Joseph Carroll and Tapuke, Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana. This familial connection and …
Type: Biography
… architectural services. Architectural designer Rau Hoskins (Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi), a director of designTRIBE, led several … and Wiremu (Bill) Royal were founding practitioners. Royal (Ngāti Raukawa) is thought to be the first Māori architect to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori architecture – whare Māori
… and other early writers of Māori fiction, Patricia Grace (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Āti Awa) cut her literary teeth in Te Ao …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki
… memorial to Pākehā casualties of the 1868–69 conflicts. The Ngāti Ruanui marae of Ketemarae is 2 km north-east of … figures and scale model panoramas. Taiporohēnui Marae Large Ngāti Ruanui marae north-east of Hāwera. Taiporohēnui has a …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… their names for some of the Tītī/Muttonbird Islands remain. Ngāti Mamoe arrived next in larger numbers and intermarried … then pushed south and achieved domination over the resident Ngāti Mamoe, mainly through intermarriage. James Cook In …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… From the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition, where a Ngāti Awa wharenui (meeting house), Mataatua, was displayed … 1888 the principal New Zealand attraction was said to be a Ngāti Pikiao pātaka (carved storehouse), shown by Walter …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Exhibitions and world’s fairs
… defined the Ngāi Tahu claim to the disputed territories. Ngāti Toa had claimed the land by right of conquest and sold … no more than £150, and threatened to obtain possession from Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa if Ngāi Tahu did not accede to his …
Type: Biography
… Pene Ruruanga, who was from a senior line of Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto. His father was Paratene Kātene Kapa of Te … traditions and tribal histories and genealogies of Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto and Te Aupōuri, and of the teachings of the …
Type: Biography
… in the 1830s, and his wife, Kenehuru, the daughter of Ngāti Mahuta leader Te Tuhi-o-te-rangi. Kelly was educated … Ueke, who was of Ngāi Tāwake (a hapū of Ngāpuhi) and Ngāti Mahuta. They had two sons and a daughter. During his …
Type: Biography
… The land was leased from Muaupoko and several hapu of Ngati Raukawa, whose settlements were included in the run. … between two antagonistic tribal groups: Muaupoko and Ngati Raukawa. When skirmishing broke out along the boundary …
Type: Biography
… and Ben Couch, elected in 1975, followed by Winston Peters (Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi) in 1979. Couch was minister of Māori … won six of the Māori seats. Tariana Turia Tariana Turia (Ngāti Apa) first entered Parliament in 1996 on the Labour … at the 2014 election. Pita Sharples Pita Sharples (Ngāti Kahungunu) became an MP after winning the Tāmaki …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties