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This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts. ... Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty: Unknown 924 1,377 1,392 1,929 Ngāti Hāua:
Waikato Tainui, Waikato or Tainui is a group of Māori iwi based in Waikato Region, in the western central region of New Zealand's North Island. [1] It is part of the larger Tainui confederation of Polynesian settlers who arrived to New Zealand on the Tainui waka (migration canoe).
The Waikato Tainui tribal administration (or iwi authority) is the "Waikato Raupatu Trustee Company Ltd", which replaced the "Tainui Māori Trust Board", and is situated at Hopuhopu, Ngāruawāhia. The Waikato Tainui iwi comprises 33 hapū (sub-tribes) and 65 marae (family groupings). There are over 52,000 tribal members who affiliate to ...
In Māori, iwi roughly means ' people ' or ' nation ', [1] [2] and is often translated as "tribe", [3] or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. Iwi groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition ...
She was born on Matukutūreia (McLaughlin's Mountain) in the Manukau area and her whenua (placenta) was buried on its peak. Te Ata-i-Rehia married Tapaue, a Ngāti Mahuta chief, who was killed after winning control of a stretch of the Waikato River from Taupiri to Port Waikato. His death was avenged by his son Pāpaka, who secured Waiuku for ...
Ngāti Raukawa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Waikato, Taupō and Manawatu/Horowhenua regions of New Zealand. In 2006, 29,418 Māori registered their affiliation with Ngāti Raukawa. In 2006, 29,418 Māori registered their affiliation with Ngāti Raukawa.
Ngāti Te Kanawa is an iwi based in Taumarunui and one of the forty main hapū of the Ngāti Maniapoto confederation, which came into existence around 1860. They trace their whakapapa to the tupuna (ancestor) Te Kanawa , who was the great-great-great grandson of the tupuna Maniapoto and comes off Uruhina (child of Rungaterangi and Pareraukawa).
The Ngāti Hauā Iwi Trust board established their rohe as the central Waikato region with the approximate boundaries running from Mount Te Aroha in the northeast down to Mount Maungatautari in the southeast, along a line south of Cambridge to about 8 km west of the Waikato River, then along a line parallel to, but west of, the Waikato river to the south edge of the Taupiri Gorge.