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Kōrero: Take whenua – Māori land tenure

Te waitaua a Te Rauparaha ki Kaiapoi

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Te Rauparaha approaches Kaiapoi

Ko Te Rauparaha me tana waitaua e hoe ana ki Kaiapoi. Whakaeketia ai ngā iwi o Te Wai Pounamu e ngā marau a Ngāti Toa me āna haumi, ka tangohia ētahi whenua i raro i te tikanga raupatu. Hei whakapūmau i te raupatu, me mātua nōhia te whenua.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/4-MNZ-0652; F

by William Gibb

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Meredith, Take whenua – Māori land tenure – Discovery, ancestral right and conquest, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/18385/te-waitaua-a-te-rauparaha-ki-kaiapoi (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Meredith, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.