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… replace one of higher birth, as was famously the case with Ngāti Toarangatira leader Te Rauparaha. Rangatira did, …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia
… 1835. From there they were taken to Hokianga Harbour by Ngati Hao leader Nene. Francis White prospered in New …
Type: Biography
… on 18 September, the preliminary agreement was signed with Ngati Whatua leaders for the purchase of the site of …
Type: Biography
… as it does with real danger, for instance when a group of Ngati Kohe men and women, angry at the disturbance of what …
Type: Biography
… from some prominent Pākehā, the paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, Horonuku Te Heuheu, made an …
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Part of story: National parks
… and Sutherland’s later efforts on behalf of Māori led the Ngāti Porou people to name him Paikea, after their most …
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Part of story: Anti-racism and Treaty of Waitangi activism
… the end of the eighteenth century. He had connections with Ngāti Ruaka and other hapū of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi . …
Type: Biography
… Wiremu Te Rangikāheke, a mission-educated scholar from the Ngāti Rangiwewehi tribe of Rotorua. From 1849 he worked …
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Part of story: Māori Studies – ngā tari Māori
… successful Whale Watch Kaikōura started when people from Ngāti Kurī mortgaged their house to fund a whale-watching …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… laid out on the Pukeroa–Oruawhata block, land leased from Ngāti Whakaue near the Māori lakeside settlement of …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… included Jack Taiaroa (Ngāi Tahu) and Joseph Warbrick (Ngāti Rangitihi). After one match a Sydney newspaper …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… as the famous ‘Poia atu taku poi’ by Erenora Taratoa of Ngāti Raukawa. Often a journey would be taken in these …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito
… He was the second son of Tapua, leader and tohunga of Ngāti Hao of Hokianga, and the younger brother of Patuone , … Hongi Hika, Rewa and Pōmare I , and in the conflicts with Ngāti Whātua in 1824 and 1825. He and Patuone planned a … Haweis , captured off Motutohorā (Whale Island); faced with Ngāti Maru threats against the north he dropped the …
Type: Biography
… and Te Kūiti, the child of Elsie Tekahukete Wilson (Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Heke-a-Wai) and her husband, John Edward Rupe (Ngāti Maniapoto). She spent her early years on the Rupe farm …
Type: Biography
… would probably be difficult. Revival of the anthem In 1999, Ngāti Kahungunu singer Hinewehi Mohi was asked to perform …
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Part of story: National anthems
… Nelson's interior, and had joined forces with Kehu, a Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri Māori. After a fruitless attempt to …
Type: Biography
… marae in Kaikōura which opened in 2001. The local iwi, Ngāti Kurī, recognised that since the early 1880s, many of …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… a series of underground trenches, which Ngaī Te Rangi and Ngāti Ranginui forces used to ward off a British attack …
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Part of story: Historic places
… obtained information from Māori. Te Horetā te Taniwha of Ngāti Whanaunga later described how an old chief, probably …
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Part of story: Early mapping
… 3 Ngā mahi a Ruhanui In 1872 Rāpata Wahawaha, the famous Ngāti Porou soldier and leader, said, ‘In former times, when …
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Part of story: Leisure in traditional Māori society – ngā mahi a te rēhia