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… send a valued weapon or taonga (treasure) to a neighbouring tribe as a gift to invite them to take part in a battle. …
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Part of story: Traditional Māori warfare – Riri
… meaning that the overall collective genealogical memory of tribes was much larger than these impressive individual …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… brother Tama Taipūnoa were from the eastern Bay of Plenty tribe, Te Whakatōhea. Seeking to avenge the murder of their …
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Part of story: Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
… of the island. From there pounamu was traded with other tribes, from the deep south to the far north of the country. …
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Part of story: Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
… from a version given by Tipene O’Regan of the Ngāi Tahu tribe. 1 Poutini was a taniwha or guardian of pounamu. He …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… been exhumed and reinterred, but also could reassess the tribe’s future. …
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Part of story: Tangihanga – death customs
… a descendant of Rāhiri, the ancestor of the Ngāpuhi tribe. Caves at the village of Waiōmio, 4 km south of …
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Part of story: Northland places
… parties from the East Coast journeying to support Waikato tribes in 1864. A township, briefly named Richmond, was …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… This prohibition identifies the bounds of both the Mataatua tribes and the Bay of Plenty coastline in the phrase, ‘Mai …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… the river. A well-known tribal proverb about the Waikato tribes refers to the taniwha (mythical water spirit) …
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Part of story: Waikato tribes
… with a spiritual status that endures to this day; many tribes have specific rituals to determine the use of their …
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Part of story: Waka – canoes
… The area is the home principally of Ngāti Whare, a sub-tribe of Ngāi Tūhoe, and includes the settlements of Te …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… of land. Ruawehea, a high-born woman of the Ngāti Hako tribe, had particular authority in the Hauraki region. …
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Part of story: Papatūānuku – the land
… against Hongi's hapū. Then, the heavily armed northern tribes attacked those to the south, who had few or none of … numbers of their victims exaggerated in many accounts, but tribes who had only heard of these terrible weapons lived in … pā, near present day Thames. The next year the northern tribes again combined to attack the Waikato tribes, gathered …
Type: Biography
… besieged at Pukerangiora, on the Waitara River, by Taranaki tribes. In late 1821 or early 1822 the Waikato army suffered … to seek revenge for their defeat at Motunui by Taranaki tribes. In 1831 Te Wherowhero led an expedition into … marriage. Te Wherowhero continued his attacks on Taranaki tribes between 1833 and 1836. He had been provoked by a raid …
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… direct descendant of Rāhiri, he was connected to the major tribes of the north, but was most closely affiliated to …
Type: Biography
… For 40 years Te Kani attended hui as spokesperson for his tribe. This is poignantly acknowledged in his epitaph: 'He … He is also remembered for his consultation with other tribes. After the death of King Korokī , Te Kani was …
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… and technology which he regarded as beneficial for his tribe. Traditional expertise in cultivation and navigation … of Waiapu'. They informed those waiting that some of the tribe had already gone to apprehend Pātara Raukatauri, the … a well-armed band of 150 Hauhau, mainly from outside tribes, but including some Ngāti Porou recruited from north …
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… during the first Taranaki war (1860–61). The Taranaki tribe’s coastal Tātaraimaka pā was seized in 1818 by a … 31 km south-west of New Plymouth. The Ngā Māhanga sub-tribe’s Tarawainuku marae is home to Te Toka-a-Rauhoto, in …
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Part of story: Taranaki places
… of the wars between government forces and some Māori tribes in the mid-to-late 1800s, Māori communities in close … adopted a daily routine based on wage working. However, tribes that had suffered defeat and land confiscations …
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Part of story: Daily life in Māori communities – te noho a te hapori