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Te Huki
Te Huki was a Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'' and Ngāti Rakaipaaka ''hapū'' from around the Mohaka in northern Hawke Bay, New Zealand. Through a set of marriages, he created a network of connections along the east coast of the North Island, known as Te Kupenga a Te Huki ("the net of Te Huki"). He probably lived in the early eighteenth century. Life Te Huki was the son of Tureia and Hinekimihanga. Through his father, he was a direct male-line descendant of Rakaipaaka, and through both parents of Kahungunu and Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the ''Takitimu'' waka (canoe), waka from Hawaiki to New Zealand. gives the line of descent from Kahungunu as: Te Huki - Tūreia - Tutekanao - Kaukohea - Rakaipaaka - Kahukuranui - Kahungunu. He had two younger sisters, Te Rauhina, who married her cousin Tapuwae Poharutanga o Tukutuku, Tapuwae, and Te Rangimokai, who married Te Hikawera. Te Huki was originally based in the area along the coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori. Initial contact between Māori and Europeans, starting in the 18th century, ranged from beneficial trade to lethal violence; Māori actively adopted many technologies from the newcomers. With the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising tensions over disputed land sales led to conflict in the 1860s, and massive land confiscations, to which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
