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… Manawatū and Horowhenua: 0.9% New Zealand: 1.2% Principal tribes and sub-tribes Muaūpoko, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Raukawa, Rangitāne, Ngāti …
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Part of story: Manawatū and Horowhenua region
… clothes and agricultural implements that the northern tribes had already acquired. As for Faulkner, Ruawahine's … Ngāi Tūkairangi's Pākehā, accepted as a member of the tribe and valued for his expertise in trading, boatbuilding, …
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… claims. As a result of the tribunal’s findings a number of tribes received settlements from the government. These … settlements helped to provide a capital base from which tribes were able to re-enter the economy. The two biggest …
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Part of story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy
… of York to Rotorua in 1927 provided an opportunity for tribes throughout the country to perform. Ana Hato featured … which included other guides and members of her Tūhourangi tribe. She organised many concerts to help Māori serving in …
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… of horses are closely associated with particular iwi (tribes). Kaimanawa horses Wild horses inhabit the southern … found on the East Coast and associated with the Ngāti Porou tribe – who are also nicknamed Nāti. These horses are a mix …
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Part of story: Hōiho – horses and iwi
… Colonel William Wakefield had to work with the conquering tribes to establish the New Zealand Company’s Wellington and … offering compensation. This removed the best of the Nelson tribes’ productive lands, leaving them bereft of income; …
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Part of story: Te Tau Ihu tribes
… (converting people to Christianity) and peacemaking between tribes. After Hongi Hika’s death in 1828 the mission became … ideas in their world view. The conversion of a whole tribe together contrasted with the missionary emphasis on …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… establishment, the spirit of contention among the different tribes of natives which had formerly been productive of the … Christianity in increasing numbers. The Musket Wars between tribes, and the even more devastating introduced diseases, …
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Part of story: Māori–Pākehā relations
… They identified themselves as Ngāi Tahu, and also with that tribe’s predecessors, Ngāti Māmoe and Waitaha. European … had ancestral links to Ngāi Tahu, the South Island’s main tribe. …
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Part of story: Otago region
… who took revenge by taking all the leading young men of the tribe out fishing, and then sinking the canoe, killing them … leader Te Rauparaha was not the most senior chief of the tribe. Yet through his leadership and strategic military …
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Part of story: Tūranga i te hapori – status in Māori society
… (the great harbour of Tara). Later, a succession of tribes lived in the area. In 1839, the New Zealand Company … his daughters, and were occupied by a succession of Māori tribes. After British settlement they were renamed Somes …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… other whakapapa derive. Genealogies of creation vary from tribe to tribe, or from region to region, and from tohunga to …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… who emerged from the earth in Northland. Some tribes see themselves as descended from environmental …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… Coast of the North Island. From this ancestor stem the two tribes of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou. …
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Part of story: Ngāi Tahu
… Te Rēinga Falls and watches over the interests of the tribe. She is said to have saved some canoes that were …
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Part of story: Waterfalls
… to do with procuring food. These tended to vary among tribes, depending on where they lived, local climate, and …
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Part of story: Maramataka – the lunar calendar
… the size of mamaku. It was a favourite food of South Island tribes. …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… beliefs were observed strictly by all nine Moriori tribes, including the two on Pitt Island (Rangiāuria). New … industry collapsed. In the 1820s several northern Taranaki tribes, under pressure from the muskets of their Waikato … people who would not fight them. In November 1835 the two tribes seized the Rodney , a Sydney trading ship then in …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… of Ngāti Rangiwewehi, one of the largest Te Arawa sub-tribes, and was prominent from about 1806. Hikairo was … Ngāi Te Rangi of Tauranga against Ngāpuhi. Other Te Arawa tribes refused, but Ngāti Rangiwewehi joined Ngāi Te Rangi …
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… through Nēra's teaching and preaching 'nearly all the tribes' along the South Taranaki coast adopted Christian … sale of the Whakangerengere block. When the Taranaki tribe fought at Waireka in March 1860 he arrived too late to …
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