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… a youth in 1822 when Te Rauparaha occupied Te Ihupuku, the tribe's principal pā. Thereafter Ngā Rauru withstood … Tīhoi and Pātea, and Ngāti Ruanui and other Taranaki tribes sent assistance. European military and missionary …
Type: Biography
… volcano Apanui is the ancestor Te Whānau-ā-Apanui is the tribe. Whanokao Mountain is situated in the Raukūmara Range, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
… and her brothers over fern root cultivations. The Taumārere tribes say that Rāhiri and Āhuaiti were married at Pouērua … Kairewa married Waimirirangi and they had 10 children. All tribes north of Auckland can trace their descent from one of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāpuhi
… of the children was immortalised in the name of a distinct tribe. The most significant and well-known ancestor in the … son of Rereahu and ancestor of the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe. Maniapoto succeeded to his father’s position even …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… and in its honour the crew renamed the canoe and their tribe Te Arawa (shark). Māori likened their warriors to … up to 13 kilometres away. Each year, the northern Te Rarawa tribe set aside two days for shark fishing. The first day …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Sharks and rays
… the mountain Waingongoro is the river Ngāti Ruanui is the tribe. From Rangiātea to New Zealand There are many islands … Ruanui’s descendents dispersed to become the main tribe in south Taranaki, in the area between the Whenuakura …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāti Ruanui
… movement. The movement involved not only other Taranaki tribes, but Māori from a number of tribes around the country. Its leaders, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taranaki tribe
… Seventy. They were charged with protecting the lands of the tribe and keeping out government authority. Their catchcry … seen the disastrous effects of Pākehā settlement on other tribes, their lands and resources, Tūhoe closed access to …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Ngāi Tūhoe
… many taniwha were kaitiaki, or protectors of iwi and hapū (tribes and sub-tribes), others were killers, sparking the need for heroic …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taniwha
… got its shape Te Rangihaeata of the Ngāti Toarangatira tribe dictated this version of how the North Island got its … fish and the South Island his canoe, but the East Coast tribe, Ngāti Porou, believe the canoe ended up somewhere …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… corned beef or bacon. Pōhā – kelp bags The southern Māori tribe Ngāi Tahu had various uses for bull kelp, or rimurapa: … bull kelp and karengo from commercial harvesting within the tribe’s traditional seaweed-gathering grounds. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Seaweed
… names Names for the different species of whales vary from tribe to tribe. One of the old terms for whales was 'ika moana' – …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… Te Pūoho was the leader of his people. A small but brave tribe, Ngāti Tama had powerful enemies as well as important … north, lived enemy hapū of Ngāti Maniapoto and other Tainui tribes. Further north, towards Kāwhia, lived their allies …
Type: Biography
… The old-time Maori , an account of the customs of Te Arawa tribe from a woman’s point of view, was published … the Kiaora Club. They came from many different Māori tribes, and dubbed themselves Ko Ngati Hiona (the tribe of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori overseas
… single partner during a ship’s visit, and both they and the tribe received some goods in return. There were also cases … prostitution was forced upon Māori women by men of their tribe, often with multiple partners, and the women received … Thomas Halbert married six different women from East Coast tribes. …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… ceremonial roles in place of their kaumātua. In others, tribes have sought to build the capacity of their elders. Te … Kaumātua remain important to the cultural strength of Māori tribes and as cultural symbols of Māori identity. Mason …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kaumātua – Māori elders
… Kotahitanga Māori Parliament attempted to form a union of tribes to advocate for Māori rights under the Treaty of … deal with Māori as a single race, rather than as individual tribes. Political protest and treaty rights The 1970s were … negotiated settlements between the government and specific tribes, often including the transfer to Māori of substantial …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… between the Rangitāne people and the region’s other main tribe, Ngāti Kahungunu. In 2006 Ngāti Kahungunu established a federation of hapū (sub-tribes) for Wairarapa. In the 1990s the two tribes made a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Wairarapa region
… crew of founding canoes served to establish the origins of tribes, and defined relationships with other tribes. For example, a number of tribes trace their origin to the Tainui canoe, while others …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Canoe traditions
… some affliction laments for warriors, for chiefs or for a tribe defeated in battle fought in the light of day laments … or for a lover laments for land deserted, for the loss of a tribe, for a canoe wrecked or stranded, for seed lost … were also composed for a daughter married into another tribe, for a daughter mistreated by her husband, for …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Traditional Māori songs – waiata tawhito