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… guidelines for future trust boards to invest wisely for the tribe. In the 2000s, board members were descendants of those …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… Intent on killing the octopus that was robbing his tribe of fish, Kupe, along with his family and some …
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Part of story: Octopus and squid
… had a mother who was of high birth within Uenuku’s tribe. In revenge Ruatapu sought to drown all the leading …
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Part of story: Ngā mātua – Māori parenting
… form the outer thatching. Also known as pūreke by some tribes. Hieke – hukahuka, or strips of fibres, are doubled …
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Part of story: Māori clothing and adornment – kākahu Māori
… very important for fishing and coastal travel. Various iwi (tribes) observed that the East Coast of the North Island had …
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Part of story: Kōrero taiao
… of Aotearoa (New Zealand), the settlement, founding of tribes and ongoing relationships between them. Margaret …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… of their grandfathers) who have married chiefs of other tribes. 1 Principles of land rights Major Rāpata Wahawaha, a …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… centuries was calamitous to the traditional world view of tribes that lived in the forest – it was like the sky …
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Part of story: Te Waonui a Tāne – forest mythology
… Ngāti Kairewa, Ngāti Manawa and Ngāti Te Aewa. These four tribes were emerging as a strong unified group out of …
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Part of story: Muriwhenua tribes
… rūnanga paremata or kaihaukai (traditional feasts where tribes exchanged foods from their own regions) return …
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Part of story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari
… former responsibilities to sick and indigent members of the tribe. Hoani’s personal position was not helped by his many responsibilities as head of his tribe. His attempts to find paid employment (as the board’s … to one of his rank. He was required to attend to the tribe’s and the board’s business up and down the country, …
Type: Biography
… was one of the leaders of the expedition of northern tribes, under the overall leadership of Patuone , Nene and … 1828 war between Te Māhurehure of Waimā and Bay of Islands tribes threatened to involve the upper Hokianga people. A … reached on the respective economic spheres of the competing tribes. Mohi Tāwhai of Te Māhurehure acted as intermediary, …
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… with Ngāti Toa in the Marlborough area, without either tribe's gaining a decisive victory. In 1834 Taiaroa attacked … were made to confirm the peacemaking between the two tribes. Although the name of Taiaroa appears on the copy of …
Type: Biography
… Te Awa-i-taia warned that Ngāti Māhanga and other Waikato tribes would intervene on the side of the Europeans in … the government greater access to central Waikato. Waikato tribes, not surprisingly, objected strongly. Months of meetings were held with other tribes who had claims to the land on which the road was …
Type: Biography
… Some time after 1832 Wairarapa was again invaded by tribes from the north and west, and Wī Tako Ngātata , a … of Te Āti Awa, killed Te Maari-o-te-rangi. The Wairarapa tribes began withdrawing to the north for safety. Many went … were taken and dried. Dried eels were exchanged with other tribes for preserved birds and seafood; this exchange system …
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… also called Te Rangikāheke, was from Ngāti Kererū sub-tribe of Ngāti Rangiwewehi of Te Arawa, and had kinship ties … the past to the present and claiming mana and land for his tribe. Genealogical recital and narrative are the techniques … election campaign he drew attention to the loyalty of his tribe to the Queen and the government, and to his own …
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… Kīngi I, Te Au's son and successor as chief, rallied the tribes of Mātaatua in order to avenge Te Umuariki. Ngāti … Pāora called off the expedition: the uniting of the tribes of Mātaatua was seen as redress enough. Pāora and Te … off to Whāngārā and confirmed a peace pact with the local tribes. Following the death of Pāora, Te Whenuanui became …
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… her early life in a period shaped by wars and invasion by tribes from outside her region. As heir to chiefly mana over … later known as the Waipukurau block. When the Hawke's Bay tribes later assembled to negotiate the price of the block, …
Type: Biography
… to Nukutaurua on the Māhia peninsula by invading northern tribes. Te Korou was captured by Te Āti Awa, but he escaped … among the negotiators. Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne and other tribes returned from the north from 1841 on, and Te Korou, …
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… within Ngāti Maniapoto in opening up their land. The tribe wanted to harness the economic potential of the land … Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Whanganui tribes, who banded together to protect their interests in …
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Part of story: King Country region