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Reitū And Reipae
Reitū and Reipae (or Reipare) were twin sisters from the Tainui confederation of Māori people, Māori tribes in Waikato, New Zealand, who lived before European settlement. Tainui tradition remembers them for the story of Reitū's courtship by Ue-oneone and for the important genealogical connection between Tainui and Ngā Puhi that was created by their marriages. Life The basic story is that Ue-oneone, a ''rangatira'' of Ngā Puhi descent, who was based at Pawarenga on the Whangape Harbour in Northland Peninsula, Northland became enamoured by the beauty of Reitū – either after visiting her in Waikato or simply after hearing her described in rumours. Therefore, Ue-oneone performed a ''karakia'' ('incantation') which caused his pet kāiaia (falcon) to fly all the way to Waikato and land on the ''paepae'' of Reitū's house, which was called Tauranga-miromiro ('perch of the tomtit'). As Reitū and Reipae approached the bird it flew back slightly out of reach and they followed it, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tainui
Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North Island of New Zealand: Hauraki, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa and Waikato. There are other Tainui iwi whose tribal areas lay outside the traditional Tainui boundaries – Ngāi Tai in the Auckland area, Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga and Ngāti Toa in the Horowhenua, Kapiti region, and Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Koata in the northern South Island. History Early history The Tainui iwi share a common ancestry from Polynesian migrants who arrived in New Zealand on the ''Tainui'' waka, which voyaged across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaiki to Aotearoa (North Island) approximately 800 years ago. According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, the Tainui historian, Tainui first entered the Waikato about 1400 bringing with them kumara plants. By about 1450 they had conquered the last of the indigenous people in a battle at Atiamuri. Contact with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whakapapa
Whakapapa (, ), or genealogy, is a fundamental principle in Māori culture. Reciting one's whakapapa proclaims one's Māori identity, places oneself in a wider context, and links oneself to land and tribal groupings and the mana of those. Experts in ''whakapapa'' can trace and recite a lineage not only through the many generations in a linear sense, but also between such generations in a lateral sense. Link with ancestry Raymond Firth, an acclaimed New Zealand economist and anthropologist during the early 20th century, asserted that there are four different levels of Maori kinship terminology that are as follows: Some scholars have attributed this type of genealogical activity as being tantamount to ancestor worship. Most Māori would probably attribute this to ancestor reverence. Tribes and sub-tribes are mostly named after an ancestor (either male or female): for example, '' Ngati Kahungunu'' means 'descendants of ''Kahungunu (a famous chief who lived mostly in what is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Korokoro
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some cluster into larger groupings that are based on (genealogical tradition) and known as (literally "canoes", with reference to the original migration voyages). These super-groupings generally serve symbolic rather than practical functions. In pre-European times, most Māori were allied to relatively small groups in the form of ("sub-tribes") and ("family"). Each contains a number of ; among the of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word ''rohe'' to describe the territory or boundaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māhanga
Māhanga was a Maori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand, based at Kāniwhaniwha on the Waipā River, and an ancestor of the Ngāti Māhanga and Ngāti Tamainupō '' hapu''. Brice Briggs estimates that he lived around 1600. Life Māhanga was the son of Tūheitia, a famous warrior, based at Papa-o-rotu in Waikāretu, who was said to have never been attacked at home and was the author of the proverbial saying, "come to me, to the Papa-o-rotu, to the unstirred current, to the pillow that falls not, and the undisturbed sleep. Although I am small, I have teeth." Through Tūheitia, he was descended from Hoturoa, captain of the ''Tainui'' canoe. gives the line of descent as Hoturoa – Hotu-ope – Hotu-āwhio – Hotu-matapū – Mōtai – Ue-tihi – Ue-raki – Uenoho – Pū-terere – Taipū – Tamapoto – Tūheitia. This line derives from a manuscript of Maniapoto genealogies compiled by Hari Wahanui and others be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Apakura
Waikato Tainui, Waikato or Tainui is a group of Māori ''iwi'' based in Waikato Region, in the western central region of New Zealand's North Island. It is part of the larger Tainui confederation of Polynesian settlers who arrived to New Zealand on the Tainui '' waka'' (migration canoe). The tribe is named after the Waikato River, which plays a large part in its history and culture. Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the first Māori king, was a member of the Waikato hapu (sub-tribe) of Ngāti Mahuta, and his descendants have succeeded him. The king movement is based at Tūrangawaewae '' marae'' (meeting place) in Ngāruawāhia. The Waikato-Tainui iwi comprises 33 hapū (sub-tribes) and 65 marae (family groupings). There are over 52,000 tribal members who affiliate to Waikato-Tainui. Hamilton City is now the tribe's largest population centre, but Ngāruawāhia remains the tribe's historical centre and modern capital. In the 2006 census, 33,429 people in New Zealand indicated they were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whatihua
Whatihua was a Māori rangatira (chief) in the Tainui confederation of tribes, based at Kāwhia, New Zealand. He quarrelled with his brother, Tūrongo, and as a result Tainui was split between them, with Whatihua receiving the northern Waikato region, including Kāwhia. He probably lived in the early sixteenth century. Life Whatihua was a male-line descendant of Hoturoa, leader of the ''Tainui'' ''waka'' through his father Tāwhao. Tāwhao married two daughters of Te Aorere, another descendant of Hoturoa, Pūnui-a-te-kore and Maru-tē-hiakina. Whatihua was the first-born son, but his mother was the younger of Tāwhao's wives, Maru-tē-hiakina. His younger brother Tūrongo was born to the senior wife, Pūnui-a-te-kore. As a result, the relative status of the two sons was unclear and they competed for pre-eminence. As youths, Whatihua and Tūrongo went hunting ''kūaka'' (Bar-tailed godwits) on Kaiwhai island off Kāwhia. At first, all the birds came to Tūrongo and he caught grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōkako (Tainui)
Kōkako was a Maori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand. He probably lived in the late sixteenth century. Life Kōkako was the son of Manu-Tongātea of Ngāti Ruanui and Mātaatua descent from Marokopa, south of Kāwhia. According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, his mother was Wawara from the Lake Rotoiti region, whom his father married during a military campaign into the Bay of Plenty region. According to this version, he was named after the Kōkako birds which the war-party ate during their march. In a version told to Bruce Biggs by Elsie Turnbull, Manu-Tongātea is instead a man of Maungatautari, who committed adultery with a lady of Marokopa and left behind a kōkako-feather cloak after which Kōkako is named. Invasion of Āwhitu After spending some time in Marokopa, Kōkako led a raiding party down the Waikato River and into Manukau Harbour, where they seized the Āwhitu Peninsula. This brought them into co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamainu-pō
Tamainu-pō was a Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation in the Waikato region of New Zealand and the ancestor of the Ngāti Tamainupō '' hapu''. He probably lived around 1600. Life Tamainu-pō was the son of Whaea-tāpoko, a female ''rangatira'' based at Kāwhia, who belonged to Ngāti Taupiri. She was raped in the night by Kōkako, a Waikato Tainui chieftain of Ngāti Ruanui and Mātaatua descent. Tamainu-pō's name, which means 'Son-of-the-drink-by-night', was given by his father in reference to the rape. He grew up around Kāwhia Harbour and his mother only revealed his parentage to him when he was a young adult. He had an older half-brother, Taiko, and a sister, Maikao, who married Ta-nanga-whanga, a ''rangatira'' of Ngā Iwi. Flight to Pokohuka One day, when the young man was playing ''teka'' (a form of darts) with his friends, one of the darts fell into a kumara pit and Tamainu-pō went to collect it. There he found his sister-in-law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maungatautari
Maungatautari is a mountain, rural community, and ecological area near Cambridge in the Waikato region in New Zealand's central North Island. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "mountain of the upright stick" for . The Maungatautari Restoration Project is the largest ecological restoration project in New Zealand. The project is engineered to remove all non-native pest mammals and predators and restore endangered native flora and fauna to Maungatautari. There is no intention to restrict all introduced birds, but efforts will be made to control exotic wasps. It includes private land and a government-owned scenic reserve administered by Waipa District Council. It is a community project managed by the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust. Maungatautari Marae and Te Manawanui meeting house located on the northern edge of the mountain, overlooking the Waikato River. It is a meeting place for the Ngāti Korokī Kahukura hapū of Ngāti Houru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karapiro
Karapiro ( mi, Karāpiro) is a settlement and rural area in the Waipa District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It includes both the artificially created Lake Karapiro and the accompanying Karapiro Power Station. Karapiro is located just off State Highway 1, south-west of Cambridge. History In about 1600, Te Ihingarangi built a pā (fortified village) called Te Tiki o Ihingarangi near where Lake Karapiro is today. In 1830 Ngāti Hauā defeated Ngāti Maru in a battle at Taumatawīwī, two kilometres south of Karapiro Domain. On the orders of the Ngāti Hauā chief Te Waharoa, his dead warriors were cremated, this taking place on rocks beside the Waikato River, the location then becoming known as ''Karāpiro'', from the Māori language words , meaning "basaltic stone", and , meaning "foul smelling". The site was flooded when the dam was built and the lake created in 1947. A man opened fire inside the Karapiro Cafe and Grits in April 2019. The suspect was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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