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Ngāti Porou Ki Harataunga
Ngāti Porou ki Harataunga, is a Māori people, Māori iwi (tribe) residing in the Kennedy Bay, Harataunga/Kennedy Bay region of Hauraki Gulf, Hauraki, and is a branch of the wider Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki iwi, which itself, is a branch of Ngāti Porou. Although an offshoot of the Ngāti Porou iwi, Ngāti Porou ki Harataunga withhold an identity recognisable as unique, but also hold tightly onto their links to the Ngāti Porou of the Gisborne District, Tairāwhiti. Pre-European history Paikea The ancestry of Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki tie them into the bloodlines of Paikea, of Māui (Māori mythology), Māui, and of Toi-te-huatahi. Dating back to the arrival of Paikea to Mercury Islands, Great Mercury Island or Ahuahu (full name: Te Ahuahutunga-o-Paikea), and his marriage to Te Āhurumōwairaka, Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki, although arguably the youngest iwi of Hauraki, possess ties to Hauraki that date back to before the arrival of the Māori migration canoes, migratory waka. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori People
Māori () are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, indigenous Polynesians, Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of Māori migration canoes, canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed Māori culture, a distinct 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. Early 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, Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, the two cultures coexisted for a generation. Rising ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
