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… canoe. The high priest Tūhoto Ariki of the Tūhourangi tribe interpreted this as a warning. He feared the terraces … Rangitihi) and Coromandel (Ngāti Hei). Descendants of the tribe still live in these places today. Because the …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… heron in single flight (rarely seen). Tribal accounts Some tribes have unique traditions about their origins in nature. … born from Ruapehu mountain, and it is said the Awanuiarangi tribes (Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Awa) descend from a spirit …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… settlements initially depended on Māori for food, and tribes supplied visiting traders with provisions for their … fortunes Traders were crucial intermediaries between tribes and the European commercial world. A number of early …
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Part of story: Economic history
… same purpose. They include ‘whānau’ (family), ‘hapū’ (sub-tribe) and ‘iwi’ (tribe), together with the specific names of their own hapū … to deal with large tribal groups rather than individual sub-tribes, so Māori became identified with their iwi rather …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… 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 Hauraki tribes (including those who indicated more than one tribe), …
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Part of story: Hauraki tribes
… they presented little or no threat to human health. Tribes set rāhui (restrictions on killing) or created forest … reciprocal feasts. The open display of food indicated a tribe’s mana (prestige), and the lesser opponent had to pay …
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Part of story: Kiore – Pacific rats
… Tribal lands For centuries, four tribes – Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri … the southern part of the North Island’s East Cape. The tribes’ traditional lands stretch from Paritū in the south …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… acres (181,000 hectares) of land belonging to the ‘rebel’ tribes of the Bay of Plenty – Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea and Ngāti … Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Tūruki, of the Te Rongowhakaata tribe of Poverty Bay, was exiled to Wharekauri (Chatham …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Ngāti Maniapoto belong to the Tainui confederation of tribes, who particularly claim lineage from the noted … brought together both the Tainui and East Coast tribes – something still celebrated today. That line of …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… is the canoe Ruatea is the ancestor Ngāti Apa is the tribe. The ancestor Apa-hāpai-taketake Ngāti Apa take their … and across Cook Strait, where the Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō tribe now occupy Nelson, Golden Bay and the West Coast. … descendants emerged the Ngāti Apa, Rangitāne and Muaūpoko tribes. North of Rangitīkei, the migrants intermarried with …
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Part of story: Ngāti Apa
… the Ōhinemataroa River. The new arrivals found the ancient tribe of Te Hapū-oneone occupying the district from … the earlier peoples. These unions were to bring about new tribes, one of them being Ngāi Tūhoe. The Mataatua migrants, …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… following year he attacked Ngāti Maru in Thames and Waikato tribes at Mātakitaki, heavily defeating them all. In 1823 …
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Part of story: Musket wars
… Māori tribes regularly exchanged goods, but the first markets in … ‘once or twice a year the native chief Taraia and his tribe, from the eastern boundary of the Gulf … in their …
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Part of story: Markets
… 1991, residents of Māori descent were asked to indicate the tribe(s) to which they were affiliated. The figures below … Ngāti Raukawa (including those who named more than one tribe), and the regions where they were found in the …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… over mere and roll of parchment in the centre), the United Tribes’ flag and, from 1989, the tino rangatiratanga flag. … New Zealand flag, the New Zealand red ensign, the United Tribes of New Zealand flag and the tino rangatiratanga flag. …
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Part of story: Ngā haki – Māori and flags
… loss of lands and resources, disrupted the tribe’s ability to be economically competitive. The eruption … many of whom no longer know their marae. The elders of the tribe regretted the Crown’s slowness to redress broken … board and consequent Crown interventions resulted in the tribe losing economic control over the presentation of their …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… People of Te Arawa The main tribes of the Volcanic Plateau are the Te Arawa people, in … strengths or beating hearts (of Rangitihi). Present-day tribes Te Arawa tribes today include Ngāti Kearoa, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… were two of the earliest imports, and in about 1820 the tribe acquired maize. Commerce also thrived with coastal tribes, who had easier access to such commodities. Flax …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… centuries, mainly through conquest and intermarriage, the tribe’s influence spread to Waikaremoana and Te Pāpuni in … early 19th century a state of war existed between hapū (sub-tribes) of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu around …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… Rākaihautū and Rokohouia In traditions of the Waitaha tribe, their founding ancestor, Rākaihautū, landed the Uruao … trading Ngāhue is an important ancestor of the Te Arawa tribe. Te Arawa say he landed at Tūhua (Mayor Island in the … raw materials from west to east for trade with North Island tribes. Routes included the present-day Heaphy and Wangapeka …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration