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The point where the two waters flow into one another was known as Wai-hakirara, literally singing waters, because of the happiness of their meeting. The name Matau is likely a corruption of the name Mata-au, meaning eddying currents, which is the Māori language name for the Clutha River overall. [ 2 ]
Lee-Morgan then joined the faculty at Auckland, before moving to the University of Waikato, and rising to full professor.Lee-Morgan was the inaugural director of the Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology, which was established in 2021.
The current Māori monarch, Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, was elected in 2024. [107] Her official residence is Tūrongo House at Tūrangawaewae marae in the town of Ngāruawāhia . She is the eighth monarch since the position was created and is the continuation of a dynasty that reaches back to the inaugural king, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero .
Ko Te Marunga Nui o Pourua: Ngā Rauru Kītahi (Ngāti Pourua) Waitōtara: Takitūtū Marae [5] Te Paepae o Te Raukura: Taranaki: Pungarehu: Tauranga Ika: Te Aputa ki Wairau: Ngā Rauru Kītahi (Ngāti Ruaiti) Waitōtara: Tawhitinui Marae: Okare Tuatoru: Ngāruahine (Ngāti Haua) Manaia: Waiokura: Paraukau Tukau: Ngāruahine : Manaia: Wai o ...
This is a list of Māori waka (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki; Te Rīrino was said to be lost at sea.
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 ...
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Hotu Matuꞌa was the legendary first settler and ariki mau ("supreme chief" or "king") of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people. [1] Hotu Matuꞌa and his two-canoe (or one double hulled canoe) colonising party were Polynesians from the now unknown land of Hiva (probably the Marquesas).