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… at Mōkau W. H. Skinner described the people of Te Kauri, a Ngāti Maniapoto kāinga, surfriding at the mouth of the Mōkau …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori games – ngā tākaro
… to be. Te Ahukaramū’s versions Te Ahukaramū, a 19th-century Ngāti Raukawa chief, gave two different whakapapa involving …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… 1 Well-known whāngai Well-known whāngai parents include: Ngāti Porou leader Rāpata Wahawaha , who took Paratene Ngata …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… to have founded the hapū within which Te Whiti was born, Ngāti Te Whiti, after a series of strategic conflicts. His … Wārea at this time was sparsely occupied by Taranaki and Ngāti Ruanui. It is believed by descendants that Te Whiti … been introduced to the Bible by Minarapa Rangihatuake of Ngāti Māhanga, a freed Ngāpuhi slave who had preached at …
Type: Biography
… 1895. Her father was Heremia Te Wake , a leader of Ngāti Manawa and Te Kaitutae hapu of Te Rarawa and the son … to enter an arranged marriage with the widowed leader of Ngāti Tūwharetoa , Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V . She chose … the Native Land Court , Richard Gilbert, of Te Waiariki of Ngāti Wai from Ngunguru. Whina decided that with his good …
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… affiliation was with Ngāpuhi , and also with the hapū Ngāti Rāhiri, Ngāi Tāwake, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Matarahurahu and Te Uri-o-Hua. Although as … a babe in arms when Pā Te Oro was attacked and sacked by a Ngāti Whātua war party. Heke and his mother, Te Kona, were …
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… descent from all the hapū of Te Whakatōhea and especially Ngāti Patumoana and Te Whānau-a-Tūāhiawa (Tūwāhiawa). The … married Hannah Te Au; she was of chiefly descent from Ngāti Mamoe and Ngāi Tahu. When their eldest daughter was …
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… Fighting resumed in 1868, and in November the force led by Ngāti Ruanui leader Riwha Tītokowaru came within 8 …
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Part of story: Whanganui region
… settler mail from passing through their district. A Ngāti Maniapoto chief remarked that ‘the pakehas write evil …
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Part of story: Mail and couriers
… Political scientist Dominic O’Sullivan (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu) asserts that biculturalism is ‘binary thinking’ …
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Part of story: Biculturalism
… was considerable investment in land in the region. The Ngāti Whātua tribe sold the land near Auckland township, but …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… They were called to action only once, in 1851. A party of Ngāti Pāoa from Waiheke Island, whose chief had been …
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Part of story: Veterans’ assistance
… Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha Population of major urban areas, 2013 …
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Part of story: Otago region
… great-grandfather, Tutoko, was one of five Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Mamoe chiefs who in the early nineteenth century laid …
Type: Biography
… paving the way for land sales to settlers. Kāpiti Coast Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa people had moved onto Muaūpoko …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… the digging of a canal from Awanui to Kaitāia, to enable Ngāti Awa to take their fleet of canoes up to the fertile …
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Part of story: Ngāti Kahungunu
… it was besieged and sacked in 1831–32 by the forces of Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha. The town developed in the …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… term ended in 1910 he resumed his kingship. Aspiring Ngāti Porou politician Apirana Ngata made this assessment of …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… between Europeans and gold. In 1935 Hōri Wātene of the Ngāti Tamaterā tribe, testifying at a commission of inquiry …
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Part of story: Gold and gold mining
… were limited. Some were endowed when set up – for example, Ngāti Kahungunu gave 700 hectares to support Te Aute and its …
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Part of story: Private education