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Te Heuheu Family
Te Heuheu may refer to several people from the Te Heuheu family which has provided chiefs of the Māori Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi (tribe) for approximately 200 years. The name is also used for several landmarks in the central North Island of New Zealand: People * Herea Te Heuheu Tūkino I (ca. 1750–1820), first in the line of the Te Heuheu chiefs *Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II (died 1846), son of Tūkino I *Iwikau Te Heuheu Tūkino III (died 1862), brother of Tūkino II *Horonuku or Patātai Te Heuheu Tūkino IV (1821–1888), son of Tūkino II *Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V (c. 1865–1921), son of Tūkino IV * Hoani Te Heuheu Tūkino VI (1897–1944), son of Tūkino V *Sir Hepi Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, KBE (1919–1997), Te Heuheu Tūkino VII, son of Tūkino VI *Sir Tumu Te Heuheu Tūkino VIII, KNZM (born 1942/1943), Te Heuheu Tūkino VIII, son of Tūkino VII and current chief *Hon. Dame Georgina te Heuheu Dame Georgina Manunui te Heuheu (née Manunui, born 1943) is a New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngati Tuwharetoa
''Ngati'' is a 1987 New Zealand feature film directed by Barry Barclay, written by Tama Poata and produced by John O'Shea. Production ''Ngati'' is of historical and cultural significance in New Zealand as it is the first feature film written and directed by Māori. Producer John O'Shea, an icon in New Zealand's film industry, was the founder of independent film company Pacific Films. The film is set in 1948 in a small town on the east coast of New Zealand during the impending closure of a freezing works and the threat of unemployment for the local community. ''Ngati'' was screened as part of Cannes' Critics Week. Synopsis Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of leukaemia; the return of a young Australian doctor, Greg, and his discovery that he has Māori heritage; and the fight to keep the local freezing works open. Unique in tone and quietly powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herea Te Heuheu Tūkino I
Herea or Hereara (–1820), later known as Te Rangi-māheuheu and Te Heuheu Tūkino I, was a Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' of the Ngāti Tūrū-makina, Ngāti Parekāwa, and Ngāti Te Kohera, Ngāti Te Koherā hapū and paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi of the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Herea succeeded his father as head of Ngāti Tūrū-makina in the late eighteenth century. He led a force during the Tūhoe–Ngāti Tūwharetoa War. Afterwards, he was one of the candidates to succeed as paramount chief after the death of Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru. Initially, a distant cousin, Te Wakaiti, was the preferred candidate, but he outraged the senior chiefs of Ngāti Tūwharetoa with his arrogant treatment of them and they encouraged Herea to take the position instead, favouring him because of his connections with Ngāti Maniapoto of Waikato. After training in the Rangitoto Ranges, he became a master of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |