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Tamāio
Tamāio was a Maori people, Maori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation, based at Kāwhia in Waikato, New Zealand. He was the first chieftain to lead a war-party inland from Kāwhia, in a war against Ngāti Hā, sometime around the middle of the sixteenth century. Life Tamāio's father was Uenuku-te-rangi-hōkā, son of Whatihua (through whom he was a male-line descendant of Hoturoa, the captain of the ''Tainui (canoe), Tainui'') and Rua-pū-tahanga of Ngāti Ruanui (through whom he was a descendant of Turi (Maori ancestor), Turi, the captain of the ''Aotea (canoe), Aotea'' canoe). Tamāio's mother was Te Kete-kura, who was also descended from Hoturoa on her father's side and from the ''Tokomaru (canoe), Tokomaru'' on her mother's side. He had two half-brothers, Hotunui, who was born after Uenuku-te-rangi-hōkā had moved to south Taranaki, and Mōtai. War with Ngāti Hā There was a tribe called Ngāti Hā, led by three chiefs, Hā-nui ('Big Hā'), Hā-roa (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rereahu
Rereahu was a Maori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of Ngāti Raukawa in the Tainui tribal confederation from the Waikato region, New Zealand. He probably lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. He is the ancestor of the Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hauā, and Ngāti Korokī Kahukura iwi, and of Rereahu, a group based around Maniaiti / Benneydale, Pureora, and Maraeroa in Waitomo District, whose status as a separate iwi or as a hapu (‘sub-tribe’) of Ngāti Maniapoto is a matter of dispute. Life of Rereahu Rereahu’s father was Raukawa, the son of Tūrongo and Māhina-a-rangi, and a direct male-line descendant of Hoturoa, leader of the ''Tainui'' ''waka''. His mother was Turongoihi. He had three younger brothers: Kurawari (father of Whāita and Korokore), Whakatere, and Takihiku (father of Tama-te-hura, Upoko-iti, Wairangi, and Pipito). War with Ngāti Hā There was a tribe called Ngāti Hā, led by three chiefs, Hā-nui ('Big Hā'), Hā-roa ('Long Hā'), and Hā-k ... [...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] |
Rua-pū-tahanga
Rua-pū-tahanga was a Māori ''puhi ariki'' (chieftainess) from Ngāti Ruanui, who married Whatihua and thus became the ancestor of many tribes of Tainui. She probably lived in the sixteenth century. Life Rua-pū-tahanga was a daughter of Huetaepo, a chief of Ngāti Ruanui based at Patea in Taranaki and a direct descendant of Turi, the captain of the '' Aotea'' canoe. gives two lines of descent: * Turi – Turi-matakana – Turi-mata-o-rehua – Te Kōutu-o-te-rangi – Te Kapunga-o-te-rangi – Houtaepo * Turi – Tāne-roa, who married Ruanui – Rānui – Whaea-tomokia – Whareirua – Kaokao, who married Te Kōutu-o-te-rangi. She had one brother, Tongātea. Courtship of Tūrongo and Whatihua When she reached adulthood, a young chief of Tainui, Tūrongo, son of Tāwhao travelled south from Kāwhia and got engaged to Rua-pū-tahanga. He then returned to Kāwhia and began to build a house at Te Whare-o-Ngarue in Kāwhia in preparation for her arrival. As he was working on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotunui
Hotunui was a Maori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Tainui tribal confederation of Waikato, New Zealand. Through his son Marutūāhu he is the ancestor of four tribes of the Hauraki Gulf: Ngāti Maru (Hauraki), Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Rongoū, Ngāti Tamaterā, and Ngāti Whanaunga. He probably lived in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Life According to the Tainui traditions reported by Pei Te Hurinui Jones, Hotunui was the son of Uenuku-te-rangi-hōkā, son of Whatihua (through whom he was a male-line descendant of Hoturoa, the captain of the ''Tainui (canoe), Tainui'') and Rua-pū-tahanga of Ngāti Ruanui (through whom he was a descendant of Turi (Maori ancestor), Turi, the captain of the ''Aotea (canoe), Aotea'' canoe). He had two half-brothers, Tamāio and Mōtai. Uenuku-te-rangi-hōkā went to live in south Taranaki, the homeland of his mother, settling at Taukōkako, near Taiporohēnui, where Hotonui was born. Ngāti Maru tradition appears to identify Hotunui with Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tia (Māori Explorer)
In Māori traditions, Tia was an early Māori explorer of Aotearoa New Zealand and a rangatira (chief) in the Arawa tribal confederation. He is responsible for the names of various features and settlements around the central North Island, most notably Lake Taupō. He might have lived around 1400. Life Tia was born in Hawaiki to Tuamatua and Tauna. He travelled with Ngātoro-i-rangi and Tama-te-kapua on the '' Arawa'' canoe, which made landfall in New Zealand at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty. When other members of crew started staking claims to land immediately after landing, Tia did not. From Maketu, Tia set out with Māka to explore the interior of the North Island. They first headed inland to Kaharoa, then continued to Lake Rotorua. From there Tia continued to Horohoro, which received its name because he touched the dead body of an important chief there and had to be cleansed by a tohunga in a ceremony called ''Te Horohoringa-nui-a-Tia'' (the great cleansing of Tia). He met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arawa (canoe)
''Arawa'' was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori iwi and hapū based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas trace their ancestry from the people of this canoe. Background Te Arawa's ancestors on board the ''Arawa'' were of the Ngāti Ohomairangi of Ra'iātea Island. Following a battle that broke out between them and Uenuku, in which their own Whakatūria fell in battle, Tama-te-kapua promised to captain the voyage to the islands of New Zealand, which had been discovered by Ngāhue of the '' Tāwhirirangi'' canoe. Construction of the canoe A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the waka which came to be known as ''Arawa''. "Hauhau-te-rangi" and "Tuutauru" (made from New Zealand greenstone brought back by Ngāhue) were the adzes used for the time-consuming and intensive work. Upon completion, the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taupō
Taupō (), sometimes written Taupo, is a town on the north-eastern shore of Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake, in the central North Island. It is the largest urban area of the Taupō District, and the second-largest urban area in the Waikato, Waikato region, behind Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton. It has a population of Taupō was constituted as a borough in 1953. It has been the seat of Taupō District Council since the council was formed in 1989. Naming The name ''Taupō'' is from the Māori language and is a shortened version of ''Taupō-nui-a-Tia''. The longer name was first given to the cliff at Pākā Bay, on the eastern shore of the lake, and means the "great cloak of Tia". It was named for Tia (Māori explorer), Tia, the Māori explorer who discovered the lake. Māori later applied the name to the lake itself. In 2019 the official name of the town was changed from ''Taupo'' to ''Taupō''. Although the English pronunciation "tow-po" (, New Zealand English, NZE ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand. The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua (Tarawera River) at Matatā across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupō. Tūwharetoa is the sixth largest iwi in New Zealand, with a population of 35,877 of the 2013 New Zealand census, and 40% of its people under the age of 15. The tribe consists of a number of ''hapu'' (subtribes) represented by 33 ''marae'' (meeting places). The collective is bound together by the legacy of Ngātoro-i-rangi as epitomised in the ariki (paramount chief), currently Sir Tumu te Heuheu Tūkino VIII. In the 2013 New Zealand census 35,877 people identified as Ngāti Tūwharetoa. By the 2018 New Zealand census, there were at least 47,103 people identifying with the iwi, including 44,448 identifying with the Taupō branch, and 2,655 identifying with the Kawerau branch. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyathea Medullaris
''Sphaeropteris medullaris'', synonym ''Cyathea medullaris'', commonly known as mamaku or black tree fern, is a large tree fern up to 20 m tall. It is distributed across the south-west Pacific from Fiji to Pitcairn Island. Its other Māori names include katātā, kōrau, or pītau. Distribution ''Sphaeropteris medullaris'' is common in lowland forest throughout the North Island of New Zealand. In the South Island its distribution is more localised. It is fairly common in wetter coastal areas, but rare in the drier eastern parts and absent in Canterbury and Otago. In New Zealand it also occurs on the Three Kings Islands in the far north, on Stewart Island/Rakiura in the far south and in the Chatham Islands. Its distribution also includes Fiji, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, the Austral Islands, and Pitcairn Island. It is not present in the Kermadecs. Description The trunk is black and covered with distinctive hexagonal stipe bases. The fronds may be up to 5 m long, and arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waimiha
Waimiha is a rural community in the Ruapehu District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located south of Te Kuiti and Benneydale, and north of Taumarunui and Ongarue. History Māori have lived in Waimiha for centuries, hunting birds from the forested hills. The local Waimiha Marae is a tribal meeting ground of the Ngāti Maniapoto hapū of Te Ihingarangi. It includes Te Ihingarangi meeting house. Waimiha developed after the railway opened in 1901, which was followed by sawmillers and farmers. Crown land in the area was prepared for settlement in the 1910s. By the 1920s there were general stores, boarding houses, stables, a post office, butchery and cinema. In the late 1920s, under a government policy introduced by Āpirana Ngata, some Māori land owners received funds to convert their land into farmland. By the 1930s, of Māori land at Waimihia had been converted. Some of this land was later sold off or consolidated into larger farms. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
