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… who were members of both the Ōwenga and Ōtonga Moriori tribes. Young Tame grew up on the Moriori reserve at Manukau …
Type: Biography
… by the Southern Cross constellation in both the United Tribes’ Flag (the first national flag, adopted in 1834) and …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand identity
… 1820s. The internecine warfare had barely ceased when the tribe suffered a series of major raids in 1828 by …
Type: Biography
… including a 2010 visit by Māori pop musicians Moana and the Tribe to Taiwan, and a visit by jazz saxophonist Nathan …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: New Zealand culture overseas
… In 1911 the Waikato people agreed to allow the Taranaki tribes to nominate the candidate for the Western Māori …
Type: Biography
… related to early southern Māori dialect. In 2001 the tribe took the first steps towards reviving their language …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Moriori
… Tokoroa was a chief of Ngāti Kahupungapunga, the first tribe in the area. He was killed at the siege of Pōhuturoa, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Waikato places
… lover, and the founder of Ngāti Kahungunu, the large tribe that now bears his name. Arriving at the Māhia …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Māori humor – te whakakata
… through initiatives such as its no-fees promotion of TRIBE (an online triathlon community), which saw membership …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… to enter and bring life to the world. Some northern Māori tribes say that his legs were the trunks of giant kauri …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Kauri forest
… of Whanganui, the home of Ngāti Pūkeko and Ngāti Iti, sub-tribes of Ngā Rauru. Woodall’s redoubt was built in 1864; …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui places
… the north’s expanding tourism. Early days The Parawhau tribe originally occupied the land and continued to live in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Northland places
… after the ancestor who had united Tainui with the tribes of the East Coast. Six thousand people attended the … occasion for rejoicing on the part of the Pākehās and those tribes who have not suffered any injustices during the past … friendships established lasting relationships among many tribes in Taranaki, the Whanganui district, on the East …
Type: Biography
… to survey a road through the Urewera district without the tribe's consent. Concerned that further conflicts might … with Pākehā society for more than 50 years and most of the tribe followed the teachings of the Ringatū church. The …
Type: Biography
… dreams that came to be considered portents of death in the tribe, Pei underwent ancient rituals. Besides putting an end … was a Māori-language version of the history of the Tainui tribes, from the building of the canoe and the crossing to …
Type: Biography
… about the matter of asserting the Queen's sovereignty over tribes which had not signed, and about the extent of Crown … in late 1842 when feuding erupted between the Bay of Plenty tribes. Swainson and Martin resisted sending in troops …
Type: Biography
… make concessions to Māori in penal matters. When one of his tribe, Te Mānia, was rescued from the court where he had … Te Kawau maintained the peace on terms acceptable to his tribe. In the 1840s Te Kawau was also becoming more involved …
Type: Biography
… Te Whiwhi. Te Whiwhi was born in the northern home of his tribe well before Ngāti Raukawa migrated south to the Cook … of journeys in the central North Island, urging upon the tribes the idea of a Māori king to protect their remaining …
Type: Biography
… the central North Island. This has ensured that other tribes, such as those of the Tainui confederation, Ngāti …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Whanganui tribes