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… in which their ancestors arrived from Polynesia, and their tribes and sub-tribes. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first …
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Part of story: The New Zealanders
… After the conflict among the tribes in the Chatham Islands was resolved, Moriori lived … population reached about 2,000. The people belonged to nine tribes: Hamata, Wheteina, Eitara, Etiao, Harua, Makao, …
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Part of story: Moriori
… impact on Māori society. With firearms, conflicts between tribes turned into full-scale wars. Tribes competed for control of the flax trade and thus the …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working
… All, however, speak of his authority and prestige. A tribe known as Te Tini o Toi (Toi’s multitudes) are said to … food, which is the meaning of his name Toikairākau. Some tribes place Toi on the North Island’s East Coast, while …
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Part of story: First peoples in Māori tradition
… Albert, and presented them with gifts from the Whanganui tribes. Taylor records that Hīpango was shocked to see open … tried unsuccessfully to mediate between warring Taranaki tribes. Hīpango was among the Whanganui leaders who opposed …
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… the distinctive customs and traditions of their own iwi (tribe) may be upheld and retained even when living in a predominantly non-Māori society. Each tribe is made up of a number of hapū (sub-tribes), whose members can generally claim descent from a …
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Part of story: Māori manners and social behaviour – Ngā mahi tika
… One of the most important narratives of the South Island tribes concerns Rākaihautū, who carved out the mountain … create lakes and harbours. According to the Ngāi Tuhoe tribe, Lake Waikaremoana, in the south-east of their …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… Ngāpuhi is the largest tribe in New Zealand. Their heartland lies at Te Tai Tokerau … Bay of Islands. Manaia, the main ancestral mountain for the tribes of Whangārei, is named after one of their earliest …
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Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… solar year – a lunar year is around 11 days shorter. Some tribes listed 13 months in their lunar year, indicating that … added to account for the extra period of time. Those tribes which had only 12 months would have used a different … month also had its own name, which sometimes varied between tribes. Tūtakangahau of Maungapōhatu, a member of Ngāi …
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Part of story: Maramataka – the lunar calendar
… going to the seashore to investigate whale strandings. One tribe made a fake whale from the skins of numerous kurī … harvest the whale they were overcome by the warriors. The tribe that came up with this strategy became known as Ngāti … attacked by the warriors. Smoke strategy The Te Aupōuri tribe were formerly known as Ngāti Te Awa. While under siege …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… in the 17th century, and established numerous powerful tribes. To understand how he came to be the leader of his … the boundaries of the entire Tainui confederation of tribes. A tribal motto In his latter years Maniapoto lived …
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Part of story: Ngāti Maniapoto
… poverty of their tribal homelands. Between 1840 and 1950 tribes had lost 95% of their lands, and rural Māori families … ideas about the Māori extended family. Māori from different tribes were brought together in new multi-tribal …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… south of this river with their descendants, becoming the tribes Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Ruahine and Ngā Rauru. Haunui Haunui was an ancestor of tribes descended from both the Aotea and Kurahaupō canoes. … the area, intermarrying with the Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Hauiti tribes. Many years later Matanginui made a return journey to …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… Waipaoa River estuary, and was conspicuous only within the tribe. He was significant for his contribution to the tribe in the period when its unity and standing were being … of the 1860s. By the 1880s Rongowhakaata was reviving, sub-tribe by sub-tribe. The revival was evidenced by the …
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… (Lillibeth) or Rohu of Ngāti Whanaunga. His principal tribe was Ngāti Maru, and his hapū were Ngāti Hauauru, Ngāti … Maru, thus making him kin to all the principal Hauraki tribes. He also had links to Ngātoroirangi of Te Arawa … section concerned the wars between Ngāpuhi and the Hauraki tribes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth …
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… Tūrangawaewae can include other places as well. Many tribes identify themselves in terms of their mountains, … is the mountain Waiapu is the river Ngāti Porou is the tribe. Here, the sense of tūrangawaewae is broadened into a …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… by the film Whale rider , based on the Ngāti Porou tribe’s tradition of Paikea. According to the story, the … riders are: Te Tahi-o-te-rangi, an ancestor of the Mataatua tribes, who rode a whale named Tūtarakauika from Whakaari …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… were named Parawai in memory of gardens back home. The tribe spreads out As Te Arawa adapted to their new … the Te Arawa canoe as retribution for the defeat of the tribe of Uenuku back in Rangiātea. Hatupatu’s success is … the control of the descendants of the explorer Ika. The tribe’s settlement of the region then progressed peacefully. …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… although they did not have the authority to commit the tribe. When, several months later, a copy of the treaty was … with a flag similar in design to that given to the northern tribes by William IV in 1834. Grey admired his richly carved …
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… her grandfather, Eruera Patuone, pre-eminent leader of the tribe in the early days of contact with Europeans. She was … by government policy to European settlement, the Hokianga tribes were simultaneously becoming involved with major …
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