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… tapu during menstruation, due to the degree of tapu associated with blood. Menstruating women were kept away from common areas because of their tapu state – contact with materials essential to society was seen as … Ka puta ki waho ra, Waitapu. I haere ra ia i te maunga-rongo O te ture a Whiro … And begat Waitapu. She it …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… names and symbolism to New Zealand places taunaha (naming after body parts) to emphasise personal claims to land naming places according to their features naming places after people naming for historical or spiritual reasons naming … of the landscape. Common names included motu (islands), maunga (high peaks) and awa (reef passage, harbour or …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places
… The battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina) In March 1864 the Tauranga Moana tribes challenged British troops, stationed at Te Papa in Tauranga, to battle. The soldiers had been sent … Their tribal proverb is a spiritual anchor: Ko Mauao te maunga Ko Tauranga te moana Ko Ngāi Te Rangi, ko Ngāti …
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Part of story: Tauranga Moana
… Te Roroa Te Roroa are based at Waimamaku valley, Waipoua Forest, Maunganui Bluff and Kaihū valley. They are descended from … fortifications on the strategically important mountains of Maungaraho and Tokatoka. Toa’s grandsons (the children of …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… E rere kau mai te awa nui nei Mai i te kāhui maunga ki Tangaroa Ko au te awa Ko te awa ko au. …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… south, absorbing other tribes already in occupation. The Aotea waka, commanded by Turi, later arrived north of Kāwhia. Discovering the Tainui people … descendants of Raukawa, occupied the south Waikato between Maungatautari mountain and Whakamaru, and north to the …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… where Māori could meet and share activities, concerns and interests. Most of these voluntary groups were not kin-based … These groups included Māori clubs, councils, welfare committees and wardens, Māori Women’s Welfare League branches, … Te Hono-a-te-kiore in Hamilton and Tūhoe-ki-Pōneke or Tū-te-maunga-roa in Wellington. Every two years at Easter, these …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… and Waitaha. His hapū were Ngāi Taoka, Ngāti Huirapa, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Te Rakiāmoa and Ngāi Tūāhuriri. His father was Tohu, his … They understood that the purchase applied to the area from Maungatere (Mt Grey, near Kaiapoi) in the north to …
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… came to Taranaki about 1250–1300 CE. These migrants from eastern Polynesia found a heavily forested land, rich in natural resources. The earliest people … waka that arrived earlier. Their people became Te Kāhui Maunga (the mountain people). The descendants of both waves …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… Ruawharo and Māhia Peninsula Ruawharo gave the name Te Māhia to the peninsula because it resembled a part of his tribe’s original homeland, Te Māhia-mai-tawhiti (the sound heard from a distance). … canoe from Hawaiki. Rollers from the canoe were left in the Maungawhio Lagoon and in Te Papa Creek at Māhia. Ruawharo …
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Part of story: Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
… poutaka me kinikini atu, he kai poutaka me horehore atu, mā te tamaiti te iho’ (pinch off a bit of the potted bird, peel off a bit … – tāngaengae, Ki te hopu tangata – tāngaengae, Ki te piki maunga – tāngaengae, Me homai – tāngaengae, Mō te tama nei. …
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Part of story: Ngā tamariki
… name given to six iwi (tribes): Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa. Te Hiku-o-te-Ika: the tail of the fish The Muriwhenua people occupy the lands between the Maungataniwha Range and Cape Rēinga. In legend, this land …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… The Māori words listed below are sometimes used untranslated in Te Ara’s English-language entries. They often have no … surrounding the courtyard and the courtyard itself maunga, mounga mountain mauri life principle; material …
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… Eruera Riini Mānuera was a far-sighted leader who for nearly 60 years was the main spokesman … was born on 6 January 1895, in a makeshift thatched hut at Te Waea, a settlement downstream from Te Teko in the eastern … by the Tarawera Forests Act. The transferred land included Maunga Pūtauaki (Mt Edgecumbe), and he soon deeply regretted …
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… Pink-footed shags belong to the Leucocarbo genus. They are part of a group of cold-water shags found on islands in the Southern Ocean, on the … course of action are ‘me kawau ka tuku ki roto i te aro maunga’ (like a shag making for a mountain face). Shags also …
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Part of story: Shags
… Ōakura Coastal town 13 km west of New Plymouth on State Highway 45, with a 2013 population of 1,380. The Kaitake Range shelters the town from cold southerly winds. Ōakura has been a … in Māori tradition the guiding stone of Taranaki Maunga when he fled from the central North Island. The stone …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… Rising towards the realms of Ranginui the Sky Father, remote from human settlement, mountains loomed over the Māori … Island, or Aoraki in the South Island. A Māori proverb states: ‘Mehemea ka tuohu ahau me maunga teitei’ (If I should bow my head let it be to a high …
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Part of story: Mountains
… Nuku-tai-memeha , Nukutere and Paikea For Ngāti Porou, the Nuku-tai-memeha of Māui … major East Coast ancestors, Whironui (Whiro) and the Nukutere canoe were the first to arrive. Whiro (known as Hilo in … found a suitable tree on a mountain that was given the name Maunga Haumi. Traditions say that because the streams were …
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Part of story: Canoe traditions
… of New Zealand’s leading authorities on traditional Māori literature. She published prolifically, for both academic and … and popular success. Although she had highly developed written skills in te reo Māori, she was not a fluent speaker. … the same format as their earlier book. He reta ki te maunga: Māori letters to the editor, 1898–1905 (also 2002) …
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… From the late 1980s the Waitangi Tribunal grew to become one of the … public institutions. With a higher profile came greater public scrutiny and an increased workload. Treaty of … were subsequently made for Te Urewera and Taranaki maunga as part of redress for treaty breaches. …
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Part of story: Waitangi Tribunal – Te Rōpū Whakamana