• Kai Iwi Lakes are located in Taharoa Domain in the Northland region of New Zealand. The reserve encompasses a series of three freshwater dune lakes:...
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    on the foreshore of Lake Tekapo. The Dark Sky Project is jointly owned by founders Hide Ozawa and Graeme Murray, and Ngāi Tahu iwi. In the New Zealand...
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    Waitaha iwi, followed later by Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu. Waitaha sailed on the Uruao waka, whose captain Rakaihautū named sites and carved out lakes throughout...
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  • September 1992) is a New Zealand politician. She has served on the Rotorua Lakes District Council since 2013 and was elected mayor of Rotorua at the 2022...
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  • together of noses and sharing of breath hui meeting, conference iwi tribe kai food kai moana sea food kapa haka a cultural festival or music and dance...
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    surrounds. The reserve is now managed by the Bushy Park Trust, in partnership with Forest & Bird and local iwi Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi. The forest reserve and homestead...
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    six lakes are all in the South Island. The deepest lake in the North Island is Lake Waikaremoana, which has a depth of 256 m. The following lakes are...
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    pronunciation: [ˈŋaːi ˈtʉːhɔɛ]), often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori iwi of New Zealand. It takes its name from an ancestral figure, Tūhoe-pōtiki...
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    supply from Rotokawau Virginia Lake from 1876. From 1904 water was piped from the upper Okehu valley. In 1933 springs at Kai Iwi were used to supplement the...
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    South Island (section Lakes)
    glaciers retreated, they left basins that are now filled by lakes. The level of most glacial lakes in the upper parts of the Waitaki and Clutha / Mata-Au rivers...
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    Atatürk Memorial. In pre-European times, people of the Ngai Tara and Ngati Ira iwi lived here, using the site for fishing in Cook Strait. In 1819–20, Ngā Puhi...
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    Wānaka (category Queenstown-Lakes District)
    Para karehu or Parakārehu. Take Kārara was a Kāi Tahu kāinga nohoanga (settlement) at the southern end of Lake Wānaka, including Ruby Island. The town was...
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    settled by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa...
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    Crown and the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau collective of 13 Auckland iwi and hapu (also known as the Tāmaki Collective), ownership of the 14 Tūpuna...
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    December 2010. "Planting of grassed area beside Lake Waikere up to proposed lease boundary of Kai Iwi Lakes Water Ski Club" (PDF). Kaipara District Council...
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    The government has negotiated settlements of these grievances with many iwi, although Māori claims to the foreshore and seabed proved controversial in...
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    the Waitaha iwi beginning no later than 1350. The Waitaha were superseded as mana whenua in the Christchurch area by Kāti Mamoe and Kāi Tahu. The area...
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  • under the names "Waitaha" and "Kāti Mamoe", as Kāi Tahu have since claimed those groups as part of a new iwi known as Ngāi Tahu. Te Rapuwai did leave many...
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  • Heathcote Estuary (Te Ihutai), a traditional food-gathering estuary for local iwi. Māori were also believed to have been moa hunter-gatherers, who occupied...
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    Bunnythorpe Eketāhuna Halcombe Himatangi Beach Hiwinui Hokio Beach Hunterville Kai Iwi Kimbolton Koitiana Longburn Manakau Mangaore Mangaweka National Park Norsewood...
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    because they brought goods and knowledge that were essential to the local iwi (tribe). At the same time, Europeans living in New Zealand needed the protection...
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    primary highway by Te Āti Awa, and is still monitored and defended by the iwi in the environmental courts. The name Kura Te Au originates from the red...
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    were around the Nelson-Marlborough regions. Some of the earliest recorded iwi in the Nelson district are Ngāti Hāwea, Ngāti Wairangi, Waitaha and Kāti...
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    Auckland, however no reserves were set aside. Land at Mechanics Bay was eventually established as a general area for Ngāti Pāoa, other iwi and poorer visitors...
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    The Brothers (Māori: Ngāwhatu-kai-ponu) is a group of small islands in Cook Strait, New Zealand, off the east coast of Cape Koamaru, Arapaoa Island. The...
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    of the Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, and Kāi Tahu iwi (tribes), merged via marriage and conquest into the iwi now known as Kāi Tahu. Archaeological evidence of...
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    restoration as an ecosystem; the wetland is connected to the Waikato Tainui iwi. The introduced grey willow and crack willow have thrived in the deforested...
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    negotiated with local Kai Tahu to purchase the Otago Block for its Scottish Free Church settlement. However, at the initial meeting between iwi and agent (the...
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    Wharariki Ecosanctuary (category Nature reserves in New Zealand)
    officially opened by Eugenie Sage (Minister of Conservation), along with local iwi, and the sanctuary patron, broadcaster Kim Hill. Prior to the translocation...
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