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This is a list of iwi (New Zealand Māori tribes). List of iwi. This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts.
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 to describe the territory or boundaries of iwi. [6] In modern-day New Zealand, iwi can exercise significant political power in
The Māori King Movement, called the Kīngitanga [v] in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarch of the British colonists, as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. [105]
Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Settlement Trust is a governance entity recognised by the New Zealand Government since the Treaty of Waitangi settlement between the iwi and the Crown on 21 June 2012. [1] It is a common law trust, governed by eight trustees elected by member hapū plus an independent chair.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2023) This is a list of hapū (New Zealand Māori sub-tribes). [1 K ...
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).
It is part of the Tainui confederation, the members of which trace their whakapapa (genealogy) back to people who arrived in New Zealand on the waka (canoe) Tainui. The 2018 New Zealand census reports show an estimated population of 45,930 people who affiliated with Maniapoto, making it the 9th most-populous iwi in New Zealand. [1]
As named [5] divisions of iwi (tribes), [6] hapū membership is determined by genealogical descent; a hapū consists of a number of whānau (extended family) groups. The Māori scholar Hirini Moko Mead states the double meanings of the word hapū emphasise the importance of being born into a hapū group.