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… The Kauhanganui was a rallying point for the Kīngitanga tribes. It had a council of 12 tribal representatives … hui, another long-standing tradition, brings together tribes from around the country for several days of …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… present-day Lake Taupō, he was disappointed to find a large tribe, Ngāti Hotu, already living there. Taupō-nui-a-Tia Tia … This name was later given to the lake by the occupying tribes that followed. Ngātoroirangi climbs Tauhara and …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… comprising government forces and Māori from neighbouring tribes, eventually captured the pā. Te Kooti and some of his … of 522. Manutuke is the heart of the Rongowhakaata iwi (tribe). Its meeting houses are graced with some of the most …
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Part of story: East Coast places
… distinctive Rātana church is a marae of Ngāti Uenuku, a sub-tribe of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. Pastoral farming and … pā, Maungarongo, is the home of Ngāti Rangi, a sub-tribe of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. Ohakune was founded in …
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Part of story: Whanganui places
… in tatau pounamu (peacemaking ceremonies) between warring tribes. In the 1820s the Tainui warrior Tūkorehu led an … but neither was able to defeat the other. As a result their tribes made peace and offered to support each other in times …
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Part of story: Mau rākau – Māori use of weaponry
… war canoes, supplying the needs of Te Arawa and of other tribes as far away as the Bay of Plenty, Hauraki and North … obsolete. To maintain and assert their identity, many tribes had begun to build large, fully carved meeting …
Type: Biography
… of the mist maiden and Te Maunga (the mountain). The tribe is often known as ‘Ngā tamariki a te Kohu’ – the …
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Part of story: Tāwhirimātea – the weather
… that used to exist in Miramar, Wellington. The Ngāti Porou tribe sometimes dammed a stream and stocked it with eels, …
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Part of story: Te hopu tuna – eeling
… Māori who still remembered them, and elders of the Muaūpoko tribe came to pay their respects. …
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Part of story: Extinctions
… Māori as Pūtauaki, it is of particular significance to the tribes of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau. It is …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Cimino were made honorary members of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe. There are more than 2,000 Māori–Italian descendants …
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Part of story: Italians
… message that someone of mana and of great importance to the tribe has died. On the final day there is usually a service …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… could make their income go further. In reference to the tribe that occupies the Urewera region, Tāneatua is known as …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… seldom traversed this zone, which lay between hapū (sub-tribe) settlements. However, many of its summits are often …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Oligosoma and Cyclodina species). Ngārara traditions Some tribes have other traditions that explain the origins of …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… powerful anti-government feeling spreading throughout the tribes could be allayed by more efficient administration and … prosecution contending that the pamphlet would incite other tribes against Te Arawa. Leading Māori scholars gave …
Type: Biography
… on her own behalf and on behalf of her family, hapū and tribe. Her actions were motivated by the desire to protect … guardians of the interests of the whole Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki tribe. Her speech to the court was described as admirably …
Type: Biography
… at Te Rae-o-Tahumata near Ōmāhu when Kaiwhata was born. The tribes of the Heretaunga plain were assembled there to repel … He was also kin to Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri. When Waikato tribes attacked Te Pakake pā at Ahuriri (Napier) about 1824, … Hawke's Bay was abandoned, but from about 1838 the exiled tribes gradually repopulated their territory. Ngāti Hinepare …
Type: Biography
… by Major R. N. Biggs near Pākairomiromi. The Poverty Bay tribes were now seen as hostile and government troops, … beside the church at Manutūkē. His last advice to his tribe was to repair the church, live near it, keep clear of …
Type: Biography
… the Rohe Pōtae (King Country) land block with that of other tribes who supported the King movement, but in 1885 they … Maniapoto and further claims on Taupō land were made by tribes who had fought for the government against Te Kooti. … Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1886 in a decision that excluded other tribes. During the land court hearings Horonuku had decided …
Type: Biography