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… assistants. Within a few years he married Rangirauaka, of Ngāti Riripō. On 9 May 1841 Te Ahu was baptised by A. N. …
Type: Biography
… mountain made the settlement prosperous. Te Mōkena Hou, a Ngāti Rāhiri chief, gifted the springs to the government. Te …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… and the native committees established in 1883. In reply to Ngāti Maniapoto leader Wahanui Huatare , who advocated that …
Type: Biography
… 1863. A copy of Ua Rongopai made by Karaitiana Te Korou of Ngāti Kahungunu survives. It includes the order of service, …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… the most spectacular of instruments. Rainmaker In the 1920s Ngāti Porou elder Tuta Nihoniho explained how the turorohu …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori musical instruments – taonga puoro
… had to pay court costs, survey costs and legal fees. The Ngāti Kahungunu chief Renata Kawepo won a series of cases …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… led to a violent confrontation the following year, when Ngāti Toa leaders Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata resisted …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European exploration
… near the throat). Growing kūmara A kaumātua (elder) from Ngāti Kahungunu discussed the relative merits of four types …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Oneone – soils
… reserves In 1887, Horonuku Te Heuheu , paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, gifted the peaks of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Conservation – a history
… by Te Rapuwai, Hāwea and Waitaha iwi (tribes), with Ngāti Māmoe arriving in the 16th century and Ngāi Tahu …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori rock art – ngā toi ana
… mother, Raiha Ratete (Eliza Rogers), a high-born woman of Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa , gave to her son the … Arihia Rangioue Pōkiha, the daughter of Hēmana Pōkiha of Ngāti Pikiao, was his constant helper. After 13 years at …
Type: Biography
… Harris. Through his mother he had affiliations with Ngāti Oneone of Te Aitanga a Hauiti , Ngāi Te Aweawe of Rongowhakaata, and Te Whānau-a-Ngāherehere, kin to Ngāti Kōhatu. In 1831 his father, John Harris, had arrived …
Type: Biography
… to Waikanae or moved around southern Taranaki. Ties with Ngāti Ruanui, who were followers of Tohu in his later life, … land for European settlement; they removed survey pegs as Ngāti Toa had done in 1841, ploughed the land they still …
Type: Biography
… Īhāia, a clerk in the Native Department who was of Ngāti Tūwharetoa descent. She married him at Waiaua, …
Type: Biography
… Māhia peninsula, accompanied by William Yate , to return Ngāti Porou Māori captured by raiding Ngāpuhi . (These …
Type: Biography
… Ruti (Lucy) Matekino Horomona (Solomon) was of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Pahauwera of Ngāti Kahungunu, Danish and Jewish descent. Her father … Tūhuru of Westland and of Motoitoi of Otago. He also had Ngāti Toa and English ancestry. Eruera was one of the …
Type: Biography
… party were killed. It is likely that the Māori, of the Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri tribe, saw these strange newcomers as …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: European discovery of New Zealand
… and other pā, and painted a portrait of Āpihai Te Kawau of Ngāti Whātua. In the company of Thomas S. Forsaith, a …
Type: Biography
… is a bronze bust of Miriama Heketa, a performer with the Ngāti Poneke Young Māori Club. It has a classical clarity …
Type: Biography
… fossils have been found along the Tīoriori coast between Ngātikitiki Stream and Tutuiri Creek, one of only three such … from there in 1791. From 1839 the district was home to Ngāti Tama, many of whom returned to Taranaki in 1868. Te …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Chatham Islands