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Te Rangi-ita (Ngāti Tūwharetoa)
Te Rangi-ita was a Māori people, Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. He participated with bravery in the Ngāti Tama-Ngāti Tūwharetoa War, fought off an invasion by the Ngāti Raukawa chieftain Te Ata-inutai, and forged a peace through his marriage to Te Ata-inutai's daughter, Waitapu. Through their children, he is an ancestor of many hapu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, including Ngāti Te Rangiita, the main hapu on the south shore of Lake Taupō, where the town of Te Rangiita, New Zealand, Te Rangi-ita is named after him. He probably lived in the early seventeenth century. Life Te Rangi-ita was the son of Tū-te-tawhā (son of Taringa), Tū-te-tawhā and Hinemihi (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Hinemihi. His name at birth was Te Pukeihaua. Through his father, Te Rangi-ita was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. Tū-te-tawhā had been killed along with his brother Te Rapuhora during a war with Ngāti Apa. The two of them ha ... [...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] |
