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… Rāhiri of Ngāpuhi is also connected to other North Island tribes. Rāhiri married Āhuaiti and Whakaruru of Ngāpuhi. He … (it has since been quarried). The Bay of Plenty Mataatua tribes say Rāhiri lived at Kaputerangi, an ancient pā above …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… Arrivals Waikato is the ancestral region of tribes descended from people who came to New Zealand on the …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… 19th century Ngāti Apa did not really exist as a distinct tribe. Before then, descendants of Apa-hāpai-taketake lived as part of other tribes and sub-tribes in the Ngā Wairiki and Rangitīkei …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… founding ancestor arrived from Hawaiki. The earliest iwi (tribes) and hapū (clans or descent groups) formed as the … groups expanded over succeeding generations. Some of the tribes formed in this way trace descent from a single waka. For example, the Waikato tribes descend from the Tainui waka; tribes from the Rotorua …
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Part of story: Tribal organisation
… Whānau are part of an interconnected world of tribe and sub-tribe, of the living and the dead. Although whānau members …
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… The ancestor Whātonga The Rangitāne tribe trace their origins to Whātonga, one of three chiefs … (traditional authority over the land) in these places. The tribe’s expansion led to the saying: Tini whetū ki te rangi … of stars in the sky So great is Rangitāne on the earth. Sub-tribes As the tribe grew, some groups such as Muaūpoko …
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Part of story: Rangitāne
… 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated the Taranaki tribe (including those who indicated more than one tribe), … Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was that of 1901. 1901 census: 640 1991 census: …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… or ‘true’ Ngāti Whātua – refer to the confederation of four tribes occupying the lands between the Hokianga Harbour and Tāmaki (Auckland). The tribes are Te Roroa, Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Taoū and Ngāti …
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Part of story: Ngāti Whātua
… price fell over time. The wars led to an ‘arms race’ among tribes. Tribes needed to focus on economic production in …
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Part of story: Musket wars
… Strait region, Te Āti Awa joined forces with several other tribes. These included Ngāti Toa of Kāwhia, and the northernmost Taranaki tribes, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama. Incentives for …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington
… Through the 19th and 20th centuries Māori tribes lost land and coastal fisheries that were the basis … saw Māori businesses thrive in the early 2000s – by 2006 tribes owned over $16 billion in assets. …
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… the north In Ngāti Awa’s earliest days a large group of the tribe occupied the northern regions around Kaitāia, Ahipara … of Tītahi and Kauri can be found today among the sub-tribes of Ngāti Awa. Despite leaving the north, Ngāti Awa …
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Part of story: Ngāti Awa
… rescued them and they lived contentedly with the Taranaki tribe for a time. Europeans, however, assumed that Betty and … were sold by members of the Taranaki and Te Āti Awa tribes against the wishes of the majority. The new settlers …
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Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show … Rongomaiwahine (including those who indicated more than one tribe), and the regions where they were found in the … Māori to indicate tribal affiliation – but not of multiple tribes – was in 1901. 2001 census: 2,322 2006 census: 4,254 …
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Part of story: Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
… 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe to which they were affiliated. The figures below show the number who indicated the Marutūahu tribes (including those who indicated more than one tribe), …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes
… , Moekākara and Te Wakatūwhenua are associated with coastal tribes north and south of Whangārei. Settlements Some of the … into strategic hill sites and volcanic cones. Formation of tribes By the end of the 18th century, the iwi (tribes) of …
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Part of story: Northland region
… into individual land ownership and drastically affected tribes’ ability to farm. Apirana Ngata encouraged tribes to form trusts and incorporations to manage farms. …
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… Ngāti Ruanui’s early identity was forged in battle. The tribe’s ancestor, Turi, left the Pacific island of Rangiātea … later, the people of Ngāti Ruanui were besieged by warring tribes, as well as by British soldiers in the wars of the …
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… Nelson’s eight tribes Māori know the northern South Island as Te Tau Ihu … of the demigod Māui. There are eight mutually recognised tribes in the Nelson–Marlborough region – Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa and Rangitāne (Kurahaupō tribes), Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Rārua …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… three brothers underlie the development of three separate tribes. Ngāti Tamaterā After Tamaterā took on his father’s … with others, have sub-tribes bearing their names. Among the tribe’s 19th-century leaders were Whataangaanga Tūpaea, …
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Part of story: Marutūahu tribes