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Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori iwi and hapū (tribes and sub-tribes) of New Zealand who trace their ancestry to the Arawa migration canoe (waka). [1] The tribes are based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas and have a population of around 60,117 according to the 2018 census, making the confederation the sixth biggest iwi in New ...
Te Aurere, a modern reconstruction of a sea-going waka (canoe). A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the waka which came to be known as Arawa. "Hauhau-te-rangi" and "Tūtauru" (made from New Zealand greenstone brought back by Ngāhue) were the adzes used for the time-consuming and intensive ...
Maketu is rich in ancestral Māori culture, specifically the Te Arawa tribe. Maketu was the landing site of the Arawa canoe. The chief who led the voyage of the Arawa waka from Hawaiki to New Zealand/Aotearoa was Tama-te-kapua. Many of the arrivals settled in Maketu, but some continued their journey inland, using the Kaituna River as far as ...
In Māori mythology, Ohomairangi is an important ancestor who lived in Hawaiki six generations before the migration to Aotearoa (New Zealand). He is considered the major ancestor of the people of both Te Arawa and Tainui waka.
Īhenga was an early Māori explorer and rangatira of Te Arawa. After burying his father at Moehau, he travelled to Maketu to be purified by his uncle Kahumatamomoe , whose daughter he married. He explored the North Island and named many places, including Lakes Rotoiti and Rotorua .
Many such skirmishes all culminated into the battle of Te Tūmū on 20 April 1836. Te Arawa suffered greatly, but defeated Ngāi Te Rangi and regained Maketū. They extended their territory from Wairaki at Pāpāmoa to Te Kaokaoroa at Matatā. Some months later, Te Waharoa tried to avenge the battle on Ngāi Te Rangi's behalf by attacking Te ...
Rangiteaorere was a Māori rangatira (chief) in the Te Arawa confederation of tribes and ancestor of Ngāti Rangiteaorere. He grew up at Te Teko in the Bay of Plenty and travelled to Lake Rotorua to find his father in adulthood.
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes . Some of these traditions name a homeland called Hawaiki . Among these is the story of Kupe , who had eloped with Kūrāmarotini , the wife of Hoturapa , the owner of the great canoe Matahourua , whom Kupe had ...