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… The name of the tribe The people of Muaūpoko are the descendants of the … south to the Rangitīkei River in the north. Some hapū (sub-tribes) settled around Tōtaranui (Queen Charlotte Sound) in …
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Part of story: Muaūpoko
… in late summer to early autumn, were a staple of forest tribes north of Lake Taupō. The kernels were boiled, … and taramea were also added. Parapara The Ngāti Porou tribe extracted oil from the seeds of parapara by steaming, …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… except the introduced kurī (dog) and kiore (rat). For many tribes, the main fowling season in autumn was a vital part … programmes. For instance, Kevin Prime of the Ngāti Hine tribe put a rāhui (prohibition) on taking kererū and was …
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Part of story: Te tāhere manu – bird catching
… Island. Both Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and neighbouring Ngāi Tai tribes believe that this is the fulfillment of an ancient … rivers These long and rich associations help explain why tribes invoke the name of a river to assert their identity. …
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Part of story: Rivers
… Whales have an important place in Māori tradition. Several tribes tell of the arrival of their ancestor, Paikea, on the … remained an important activity for the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui tribe until the mid-1920s. …
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Part of story: Whaling
… Ōtaki At Ōtaki, the Ngāti Raukawa tribe’s wharenui (meeting house), built in 1936, is an … Takapūwāhia marae in Porirua is on the Ngāti Toarangatira tribe’s land in Elsdon. It features the ornately carved …
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Part of story: Wellington region
… of flax were seen as having specific uses by different iwi (tribes). For instance, the cultivar ‘Māeneene’ was used by … Ngāti Maniapoto used for their finest cloaks. Whanganui tribes chose the ‘Ate’ cultivar for making eel nets and kete …
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Part of story: Flax and flax working
… the Ngāi Tai people. They have connections to the Tainui tribes through Tōrere, the daughter of Hoturoa, commander of … Their lands, however, lie between those of two Mataatua tribes, Te Whakatōhea and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. A finely …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… tributary. It is particularly significant to the Te Arawa tribe, as it mostly flows through their lands. The Ngāti … 1940 commemorates the event. The Ngāi Te Rangi and Te Arawa tribes contested authority over the area in the early 19th …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… and promote Māori authority in New Zealand. A number of tribes supported the movement, but it became centred on the … hold! Hold fast the land. Kings and queens In the 1850s tribes from all over the country, including the South …
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Part of story: Waikato tribes
… of a Trojan Horse The origin of the name for the Ngāti Kurī tribe of Muriwhenua is linked to the construction of a whale … on the East Coast, Pou-mātangatanga of the Tauira tribe sought to claim a stranded parāoa. This was challenged …
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Part of story: Te whānau puha – whales
… The family's selection by many central North Island tribes to serve as kings reflected its senior lines of descent and important kin connections to other tribes. Mahuta could trace his descent from the crews of …
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… and the establishment of Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa, the tribe’s centre of higher learning in Ōtaki. Ngāti Raukawa …
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Part of story: Ngāti Raukawa
… ‘If a woman left her fireside to marry outside the tribe it was said that her fire had become an unstable ahi … dubious, and included: targeting the weaker members of tribes forcing sales under threat of military action …
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Part of story: Te ture – Māori and legislation
… Tribes Before the 1820s the principal iwi (tribes) of the region were Rangitāne, Muaūpoko and Ngāti …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… Remutaka Range was the boundary between the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe in the Wairarapa and the tribes of Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington Harbour). Frequent …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… Ōrākei Home of the Ngāti Whātua tribe from the 1840s, when land sales reduced their holdings … and meeting house burnt. Redress In the 1980s the tribe sought redress for their land losses. A successful …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… African Southland: 0.4% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha Population of major …
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Part of story: Southland region
… African South Canterbury: 0.5% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes/sub-tribes Ngāi (Kai) Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha Population of …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… also controlled the strait. At various times almost all the tribes of the lower North Island have occupied Kāpiti and … Mana. Kāpiti is renowned as the stronghold of the Ngāti Toa tribe during the 1820s and 1830s, when the great chief Te …
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Part of story: Wellington places