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… He probably fought against the huge expedition of northern tribes in 1821–22. About 1822 he fought against Waikato in …
Type: Biography
… Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Te Ūpokoiri, Hāmua and the Wanganui tribes. His father, an engineer working in the King Country, …
Type: Biography
… to 'an absolute grant in fee-simple' of whatever land his tribe made over to him was a doctrine 'mischievous and …
Type: Biography
… women, or by mākutu if the garment was given by an outside tribe. Any cloaks given as presents were consigned to …
Type: Biography
… the Waikato River. Tūrangawaewae was to be a marae for his tribe, and also for all those who acknowledged his authority …
Type: Biography
… Māori Christianity. He was born into the Taranaki tribe at Waiaua, in South Taranaki, in the early 1820s. His …
Type: Biography
… residence, Tūrongo, and decided he had an obligation to his tribe to remain and carve. On 7 June 1939, at Ngāruawāhia, …
Type: Biography
… die out, but even in my time we…were a large and powerful tribe…we had a worse enemy than even Rauparaha, and that was …
Type: Biography
… a spear. He was Te Maro, of the local Te Aitanga a Hauiti tribe. Recognising his vulnerable position, Cook had the …
Type: Biography
… Nga iwi o Tainui , on the traditional history of the Tainui tribes, which Pei Jones had begun to compile in the 1920s. …
Type: Biography
… he intervened personally and worked to persuade Māori tribes not to join the Kīngites, using his stand over …
Type: Biography
… acknowledge.' Therefore, the King movement and the Waikato tribes, who had, in his view, challenged that agreement, …
Type: Biography
… are no genealogies that will not be questioned by some tribe', but he believed that one correct genealogical …
Type: Biography
… on his own knowledge, mainly of central North Island tribes. The following year he published The adventures of …
Type: Biography
… the sovereign rights of the Confederation of United Tribes and appealed to William IV for protection. The …
Type: Biography
… by his maternal grandfather, and the ‘closely-knit Otago Tribes of my father’s family’. From his Gaelic ancestors he …
Type: Biography
… and Raumāhora, whose marriage is said to have united the tribes of Te Āti Awa and Taranaki. His mother was …
Type: Biography
… some 25,000 Māori. There were four main groups: the tribes of the Hauraki area and Ngāti Whakaue of Rotorua, who …
Type: Biography
… and Ngāti Mutunga, brought about conflict between those tribes and Ngāti Raukawa. The resulting battle, Haowhenua, …
Type: Biography