Ngāti Kahu is a

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iwi 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, an ...

of Northland,

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. The iwi is one of the six

Muriwhenua Muriwhenua are a group of northern Māori iwi, based in Te Hiku o te Ika, the northernmost part of New Zealand's North Island. It consists of six iwi, Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Takoto, Te Pātū, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupōuri and Te Rarawa, with a comb ...

iwi of the far north of the North Island. Ngāti Kahu take their name from their founding ancestress, Kahutianui, and link their ancestry back to the

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Māmaru. The captain of Māmaru was Te Parata who married Kahutianui. Ngāti Kahu identify themselves through the following series of markers captured in their pepeha (tribal aphorism): * Ko Maungataniwha te maunga (Maungataniwha is the mountain) * Ko Tokerau te moana (Tokerau is the sea), * Ko Kahutianui te tupuna (Kahutianui is the ancestress), * Ko Te Parata te tangata (Te Parata is the man), * Ko Māmaru te waka (Mamaru is the canoe), * Ko Ngāti Kahu te iwi (Ngati Kahu is the tribe).'Te Whānau Moana - Nga Kaupapa me ngā tikanga - Customs and protoocols' by McCully Matiu and

Margaret Mutu Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari Peninsula, Karikari, New Zealand and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is Māori people, Māori and her iwi (tribes) are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa ...

. . Page 20. Available from Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu.

History

Rangikapiti Pa as seen from George Street Mangonui

McCully Matiu, kaumātua rangatira of Ngāti Kahu until his death in 2001, provided the following genealogical account of his Ngāti Kahu ancestry: "In the accounts of the descent lines of Ngāti Kahu, Kahutianui married Te Parata and Māmangi was born. Māmangi had Tūkanikani, Tūkanikani had Hāpute. Hāpute had Haiti-tai-marangai. Haiti-tai-marangai had Tūpōia, Huungahuunga, Tahuroa, Taramaia, Mokokohi and Aukiwa. Tahuroa had Hautapu. Hautapu had Wai-puiārangi. Wai-puiārangi married Moroki, and Mohotu was born. Mohotu had Te Ao-ka-waiho. Te Ao ka-waiho had Tūrou. Tūrou had Tangi-kāo. Tangi-kāo married Matahina and Te Rātahi was born. Te Rātahi married Te Ao and Hēnihīkahe was born. Hēni married Te Paekoi and Matiu was born. Matiu married Kiritiana and Reihana was born. Reihana married Hoana and the speaker, McCully Matiu, was born. That completes this descent line" (ibid). All Ngāti Kahu can trace their genealogy back to their founding ancestors.

Territory

Ngāti Kahu view themselves as holding authority and power derived from their ancestors over several inland territories including the Maungataniwha range and all the lands to the north and east of the range including the settlements with their associated marae of Waiaua, Hīhī, Kēnana, Kohumaru, Aputerewa, Mangōnui, Koekoeā (Coopers beach), Waipapa (Cable Bay), Taipā, Te Āhua, Pēria, Parapara, Aurere, Lake Ōhia, Rangiputa, Whatuwhiwhi, Karikari, Mērita, Kāingaroa, Karepōnia, Oinu, Ōpoka, Ōturu, Kaitāia, Ōkahu, Tangonge, Waipapakauri, Takahue, Pāmapūria, Mangataiore (Victoria Valley) and all areas between. They also have authority over the sea territories of the Mangōnui and Rangaunu harbours.

Notable people

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, navigator and ''

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2021- *

, academic and professor at the University of Auckland *

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Te Rūnanga-a-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu
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History

Territory

Notable people

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