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Kōrero: Whanganui tribes

‘Te ringa mahi kai’

‘Te ringa mahi kai’

Atu i te tau 1819 ka whakaeke a Ngāpuhi i te rohe o Whanganui. Ko Tūwhare te rangatira o te taua o Ngāpuhi i ngana ki te patu i a Te Hā Mārama rātou ko tōna iwi. Ka taotū a Tūwhare engari kīhai i mate. Ka whiua e Tūwhare tana kanga ki a Te Hā, ‘he ringa mahi kai’, noa iho ia. Ko te whakautu a Te Hā, kāore ia i patu i a Tūwhare, kia whakahaua e Te Hā te rongo mō tana toa. Nā tēnei āhuatanga ka tapaina te taiaha, ko ‘Te ringa mahi kai’.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Young, Whanganui tribes – Wars, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2181/te-ringa-mahi-kai (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Young, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 22 March 2017.

Comments

Harriet
28 May 2018
The story is published on Te Papa's website: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/132624. You can seek further information from them directly by using their enquiries form: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/contact-us/general-enquiries.
Te PuawaitangaOTeAo Karahina
24 November 2017
Kia ora, can u tell me where you got this pakiwaitara from, this story??? i am just wondering how you managed to get maori history from 1819 and how factual this information is, especially when you have named the iwi of my tupuna. I have never heard such thing especially when my ancestors were of both places, i would like to see you sources, the evidence to whonm wrote this pce of information, that you have published for the world to read.