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Kerikeri

… Kororipo pā. Around the 1770s Māori of the Ngāi Tawake tribe defended the site as their outlet to the sea. In the … warriors before they launched devastating raids on other tribes. A shrewd strategist, Hongi made nearby land …

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Part of story: Northland places

Māori conservation traditions

… Māori diet. Rat rāhui Missionary Richard Taylor described a tribe’s rāhui in 1855: ‘the woods in which they hunted the … for berries, and had special significance for many tribes as the place where whenua (placentas) were buried. …

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Part of story: Conservation – a history

Protected marine areas and inland waters

… fishing grounds, of special significance to local iwi (tribes) and hapū (sub-tribes). They are managed through customary fishing …

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Part of story: Protected areas

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8 Tribes

Tribes of Tainui

Canoes, tribes and sub-tribes of the Whanganui region

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Canoes of the northern tide

… Ngātokimatawhaorua and Māmari are important canoes for the tribes of Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa and Te Aupōuri. Tinana and Te … Te Māmaru , is particularly important for the Muriwhenua tribes of Te Rarawa and Ngāti Kahu. Tinana , captained by … ( Māhuhu ) is the most important canoe for the Ngāti Whātua tribes occupying the Kaipara region between Hokianga Harbour …

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Part of story: Canoe traditions

Māori and European: 1769 to 1869

… invaders wreaked havoc from 1818. In the late 1820s, sub-tribes from Hauraki attacked Te Papa (present-day Tauranga). … people of Te Arawa, his premises were destroyed by rival tribes in 1836. Missionaries In the early 1830s a number of … movement Pai Mārire drew Ngāti Awa and Te Whakatōhea tribes into conflict with the government. This flared after …

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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region

Māori childhood changes

… and hapū have many initiatives to assist Māori children. Tribes offer scholarships to descendants for secondary and …

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Part of story: Ngā tamariki

Māori migration and settlement

… to ceremonies designed to protect Tainui and Te Arawa tribes, which took place at a small island off Cape Colville … Ngāti Huarere. They formed the Marutūahu confederation of tribes: Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Rongoū, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti …

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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region

Māori settlement and occupation

… Ngāti Maniapoto belong to the Tainui confederation of tribes. Rescue effort The Tainui ’s anchor stone lay … Most of them lived outside the King Country. Other iwi Oher tribes with affiliations to the region include Ngāti Mahuta …

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Part of story: King Country region

Military conflicts

… would be for universal humanity’. 2 During the 1850s, some tribes sold land willingly and continued trading with … the geographical pattern of the New Zealand Wars. ‘Rebel’ tribes such as Waikato opposed conscription, but tribes that had supported the government in the land wars …

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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations

Raglan and the west coast

… for its destination. From the late 1700s the Ngāti Māhanga tribe occupied surrounding land. In the 1820s flax trader … brought the ancestors of the Ngā Rauru and Ngāti Ruanui tribes to New Zealand. When they discovered Tainui people in …

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Part of story: Waikato places

Tribal networking

… members of whānau (extended family) and hapū (sub-tribe) lived together while those of an iwi (tribe) lived within a distinct tribal area. In the mid-20th … in the revitalisation of their dialects. The Ngāi Tahu tribe has the Kotahi Mano Kāika website – ‘one thousand …

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Part of story: Mātauranga hangarau – information technology

Lands and people

… in the south is at Tokorangi). There are several sub-tribes of Ngāti Tūwharetoa which have grouped under two …

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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Waka in New Zealand

… As Māori tribes developed and grew there was also a change in waka …

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Part of story: Waka – canoes

Ancestors

… Muriwhenua is the collective name given to six iwi (tribes): Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū, Ngāti Kahu, Te … follow! The godwit (kūaka) is a symbol for the Muriwhenua tribes. Godwits migrate from the northern hemisphere at the …

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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes

Glossary

… oven hapū descent group, clan; modern meaning: section of a tribe, secondary tribe; literally: to have conceived hīkoi a march; to march … ancestor or ancestors; literally: bone; modern meaning: tribe ^ Page Top K – P kāinga home, place of abode, …

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Changes in leadership, 20th century

… example, Āpirana Mahuika has observed that within his sub-tribe, the Weka, Green and Manuel families, along with other … chiefly families, continued to take leadership roles in the tribe in the late 20th century. Hirini Mead has observed …

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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society