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… Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa descend from several canoes, including: … Ngātokimatawhaorua , captained by Nukutawhiti Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi , captained by Rongomai and Whakatau. The main … spread throughout the northern Hokianga and eastward to Maunga Taniwha. Tūmoana later returned to Hawaiki, leaving …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… near North Cape. On landing, Pōhurihanga declared, ‘Te muri o te whenua’ (This is the end of the land) – hence the … heavily defeated. Traditions variously place this event at Maunga Piko in Kapowairua Bay, Whangatauatea near Ahipara, … Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū and Ngāti Kahu …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… Polynesian settlers often gave names from the Māui mythological tradition to the New Zealand landscape. Māui is the trickster hero of Polynesian myth, and oral traditions about him … mountains on the west coast of Rarotonga, including Maunga Piko, Maunga Tea, Maunga Ko‘u and Te Rēinga-a-Pora, …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… the largest tribe in New Zealand. Their heartland lies at Te Tai Tokerau (the northern tide) in the far north. The territory stretches west to east from Hokianga Harbour to the Bay of Islands, and southward to Maunganui Bluff and Whangārei. The following chant likens …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… Isolated high up in the rugged Urewera country, Ngāi Tūhoe … forests and rivers. They say that their ancestors were Te Maunga (the Mountain) and Hine-pūkohu-rangi (the Mist …
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… grows on the lower slopes of 2,518-metre Taranaki Maunga (Mt Taranaki, formerly Mt Egmont), with subalpine … an altitude of 978 m. German immigrant and farmer Harry Peters pioneered the current route to North Egmont via Kaimiro in the late 1880s. Before … Te Papa Kura o Taranaki (formerly Egmont National Park) …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… The territory extends from Te Taumata-ō-Apanui (between Tōrere and Hāwai) to Pōtaka. … saying is: Mai i Taumata-ō-Apanui ki Pōtaka Ko Whanokao te maunga Ko Mōtū te awa Ko Whakaari te puia Ko Apanui te …
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Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
… The Kīngitanga or Māori King movement, which originated in 1858 with the crowning of Kīngi Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, is one of the most enduring of the Māori … East Coast famously refused the kingship, saying: Ko taku maunga ko Hikurangi, He maunga tū tonu Ehara i te maunga …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… The Te Arawa people of the Bay of Plenty are the offspring of … from the heavens to sleep with the beautiful maiden Te Kuraimonoa. From this union came the revered ancestor … followed, saying, ‘Te toropuke i runga rā, ahu mai ki te maunga nei, ko te takapū o Tapuika!’ (From that hill to the …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Ko Tongariro te maunga Ko Taupō-nui-a-Tia te moana Ko Ngāti Tūwharetoa te iwi Ko Te Heuheu te tangata. Tongariro is the mountain …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… in New Zealand, Māori tribes of the Whangārei coast operated seafaring and trading networks that reached from the territory of the Muriwhenua tribes in the far north, through … and the ancestor Traditions say that the mountains Manaia, Maunga Raho and Tokatoka once stood together in Hawaiki. …
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Part of story: Whangārei tribes
… Taranaki Maunga (Mt Taranaki) has always been a focus for those who … and commercial logos; sports and social club badges; corporate letterheads; calendars; gravestones; and even in the design of …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… is one of a number from the Taranaki region. Bounded by Te Āti Awa in the north and Ngā Ruahine in the south, the … be conquered, they are like fish with great, thick scales). Territory The tribal area is on the western cape of the … tribe’s genealogy. The first people were called Te Kāhui Maunga – the people of the mountains. How Mt Taranaki got …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… Signing the treaty The chief Āpihai Te Kawau signed the Treaty of Waitangi at Manukau Harbour on 20 March 1840. He did so after inviting Lieutenant-Governor William Hobson to live in … of $18 million. The tribe also received redress over the maunga on the Tāmaki isthmus through the Ngā Mana Whenua o …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… or Māori King movement, began in the 1850s. Tāmihana Te Rauparaha and Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi promoted the idea of a Māori monarch. Te … ancestors I am already a king). He also noted, ‘Ehara taku maunga i te maunga haere’ (my mountain does not move). …
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Part of story: Kotahitanga – unity movements
… story, and these are woven into a larger narrative. Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere), for example, is called Te Keteika-a-Rākaihautū (Rākaihautū’s fishing basket). … Taumata-whakatangihanga-kōauau-o-tamatea-turi-pūkaka-piki-maunga-horonuku-pōkai-whenua-ki-tānatahu. It means ‘the …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… such as Whanganui (big harbour), Pukerua (two hills), Maunganui (big mountain) and Awaiti (little river), but others are difficult to translate because they may have more than one meaning. For example, … who lured a taniwha out of a lake). Motuihe could be interpreted as the motu (island) of ihe (garfish), but in fact …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… Land, climate and vegetation Taranaki region projects into the Tasman … coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The region is dominated by the 2,518-metre, cone-shaped volcanic peak of Taranaki Maunga (Mt Taranaki), which is often dramatically capped …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Ideas about origins Until the arrival of Europeans in the late 1700s, Māori held a world view that originated in their Polynesian homeland. This grew and changed … the Taupō region would respond in this way: Ko Tongariro te maunga Ko Taupō te moana Ko Te Heuheu te tangata. Tongariro …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… Mountain vegetation The montane forests of Taranaki Maunga are found only in Te Papakura o Taranaki (formerly Egmont National Park) and extend up to about 1,000 metres above sea level. Kāmahi, …
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Part of story: Taranaki region