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Auckland, Waikato: Tainui: n/a n/a n/a 519 Ngāti Tamakōpiri: Manawatū-Whanganui, Waikato: Tākitimu: n/a n/a n/a n/a Ngāti Tamaterā: Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty: Tainui: 1,866 2,457 2,577 3,189 Ngāti Tara Tokanui: Waikato, Bay of Plenty: Tainui: 330 492 540 834 Ngāti Tarāwhai: Bay of Plenty: Arawa: 114 243 282 417 Ngāti Te Ata ...
The name refers to the ancestor Huakaiwaka, who in the 1600s joined Ngā Oho, Ngā Riki and Ngā Iwi to form a confederation that spanned the region for three generations, until the mid-1700s. [1] Members of this rōpū include Te Ākitai Waiohua , Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki , Te Kawerau ā Maki , Ngāti Tamaoho and Ngāti Te Ata .
Marae name Wharenui name Iwi and Hapū Location Ngā Hau e Whā: Ngā Hau e Whā: Ngāti Tamaoho, Waikato Tainui (Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Tamaoho): Pukekohe: Reretēwhioi: Arohanui: Waikato Tainui (Te Ākitai, Ngāti Paretaua, Ngāti Te Ata)
The main iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau are Ngāti Whātua, Kawerau a Maki, Tainui, Ngāti Pāoa, Wai-O-Hua and Ngāti Rehua, [5] though a pan-Māori organisation called Ngāti Akarana exists for urbanised Māori with no knowledge of their actual iwi; and, through a population trend whereby many rural Māori moved to the cities, the largest iwi affiliation in the seat are Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou ...
Each iwi contains a number of hapū; among the hapū of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word rohe for the territory or boundaries of iwi. [6] In modern-day New Zealand, iwi can exercise significant political power in the
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Te Kawerau ā Maki, [2] [3] [4] Te Kawerau a Maki, [1] or Te Kawerau-a-Maki [5] is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the Auckland Region of New Zealand.Predominantly based in West Auckland (Hikurangi also known as Waitākere), it had 251 registered adult members as of June 2017. [1]
The iwi is named for the ancestor Māhaki, who was a direct descendant of Toroa, captain of the Mātaatua canoe, [5] of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the Tākitimu, and Paikea. [6] He probably lived in the late fifteenth century. Māhaki had his pā at Pāwerawera at Waikohu (north of modern Gisborne).