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… ownership of land. Whānau (extended families) and hapū (sub-tribes) could have different rights to the same piece of … Plymouth from Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Rangitāne and other tribes. Land commissioner William Spain investigated these …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… Te Ruapounamu. These lines connected him to many Northland tribes, including Ngāpuhi and Te Aupōuri, but he was …
Type: Biography
… to Ngāti Porou. The main reason was to give the East Coast tribe a stopover place on trading voyages to Auckland. Also, … was occupied by both early Māori and Pākehā. The local tribes are Ngāti Hei and Ngāti Karaua. The Crown purchased …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… and Australian governments, six elders of Te Umuroa's tribe travelled to Tasmania to bring him back to his home. …
Type: Biography
… occupied Bastion Point above Ōkahu Bay in Auckland. The tribe had been evicted from the bay in 1951, after … have led to settlements which have returned some assets to tribes. Renaissance The Māori renaissance since 1970 has …
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Part of story: Māori
… chain of peoples thought to descend from the ancient Aryan tribes. Edward Tylor, a founder of anthropology, extended …
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Part of story: Ideas about Māori origins
… (dog). The impact of these predators, combined with the tribes’ own harvest of birds, led to the extinction of 39 …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… of their numerous children brought together all the tribes of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. Māia and Te Ikaroa-a-Rauru Māia …
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Part of story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes
… with a leaf from the manono or the patate. The Ngāti Porou tribe used pāpā, whangewhange or māhoe leaves. Fowlers put a …
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Part of story: Te tāhere manu – bird catching
… This story has been said to explain cannibalism among Māori tribes after battle, as a debasement of a defeated enemy. …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… Aotea canoe and occupied by Tainui and Te Arawa sub-tribes. James Cook renamed the island Great Barrier in 1769 …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… kūaka’ (like a flock of godwits). Mātātā (fernbird) To some tribes, the mātātā is tapu (sacred). When a chief died and …
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Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… pā at Māhia Peninsula was besieged by a combined force of tribes armed with muskets, the inhabitants began to starve. …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… chief Mananui Te Heuheu asserted authority over the tribe’s lands, and made them sacred, by equating them with …
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Part of story: Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation
… Donald McLean by Hūkiki Te Ahukaramū of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe, in 1856: Ka moe (a) Rangi i a Papatūānuku, te wahine …
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Part of story: Tangaroa – the sea
… Beasts on board An ancestral canoe of the Ngāti Porou tribe, the Māngārara , was said to have brought a cargo of …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… landscape of great importance to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe. Keeping a wetland wet The Whangamarino wetland, in …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… at Kāpiti in the 1820s, recited the story to prove his tribe’s links to the area. This version was written down by …
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Part of story: Whenua – how the land was shaped
… deplete the mauri itself, and tohunga (priests) from other tribes could recite incantations to negate or steal it. …
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Part of story: Te ngahere – forest lore
… had a significant impact on the community. As with other tribes, some people remained in the region to keep the home …
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Part of story: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui