• traditions say that the Mātaatua was initially sent from Hawaiki to bring supplies of kūmara to Māori settlements in New Zealand. The Mātaatua was captained by...
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    Maori wood carvings at Te Whai-a-te-Motu, Mātaatua marae Maori wood carvings at Te Whai-a-te-Motu, Mātaatua marae "Murupara Community Board". Whakatane...
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    traces its origins to the arrival of Māori settlers on the Mātaatua waka (canoe). The Mātaatua settlers established settlements in the Bay of Plenty and...
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    Māngere (redirect from Mātaatua Marae)
    hapū of Te Ākitai, Ngāti Te Ata and Ngāti Paretaua from Waikato Tainui. Mātaatua Marae and its Awanuiarangi meeting house are affiliated with the Ngāti...
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    (tribe) in Māoridom Rohe (region) Eastern North Island Waka (canoe) Tauira-mai-Tawhiti, Mātaatua, Arawa Population 11,808 Website http://www.apanui.co.nz...
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    Ngāi Tūhoe Iwi (tribe) in Māoridom Rohe (region) Te Urewera Waka (canoe) Mātaatua, Nukutere Population 34,890 Website www.ngaituhoe.iwi.nz...
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  • Waiau Waikato Mātaatua 273 480 594 780 Ngāti Pūkenga Bay of Plenty Mātaatua 1,137 1,788 2,175 2,949 Ngāti Rāhiri Tumutumu Waikato Mātaatua 93 195 249 375...
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    used instead of macrons in long vowels resultant from compounding (e.g. Mātaatua) or reduplication. Māori has five phonemically distinct vowel articulations...
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  • meeting house is affiliated with Ngāti Rongo. Te Tōtara Marae and Te Puhi o Mātaatua meeting house is affiliated with Te Urewera. Waikirikiri Marae and Toi-kai-rakau...
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    Ngāi Te Rangi Iwi (tribe) in Māoridom Rohe (region) Tauranga Waka (canoe) Mātaatua Population 12,924 Website www.ngaiterangi.org.nz...
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    migration canoes that brought Māori settlers to New Zealand. These include the Mātaatua, Nukutere, Tākitimu, Arawa and Tainui canoes. Many of the descendent iwi...
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    legendary canoes, the best known of which are Aotea, Te Arawa, Kurahaupō, Mātaatua, Tainui, Tākitimu, and Tokomaru. Various traditions name numerous other...
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    the Mātaatua waka landed at Whakatāne. The Maori name Whakatāne is reputed to commemorate an incident occurring after the arrival of the Mataatua. The...
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    generations after the arrival of Nukutere, the next waka to arrive was Mātaatua which landed at Whakatāne with kūmara, and carried the ancestress Muriwai...
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    Arawa from Hawaiki to Aotearoa and also the great navigator Toroa of the Mātaatua waka. Ngātoro-i-rangi was tricked onto the Te Arawa waka by the chief Tama-te-kapua...
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    Te Urunga Moutonu or Maru o te Huia meeting house; and Taiao Marae and Mātaatua meeting house. In October 2020, the Government committed $1,407,731 from...
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    Māori, who arrived in the 13th century at Tauranga in the Tākitimu and the Mātaatua waka. At 9 am on Friday, 23 June 1826, Herald was the first European ship...
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    that extends into the bay from the southeast. About 700 years ago, the Mātaatua, one of the large Māori migration canoes which journeyed to New Zealand...
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    Sapphire Springs. Katikati was a Maori community that derived from the waka Mātaatua and is affiliated with the tribal group in Tauranga, Ngāi Te Rangi. It...
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    captain and navigator of the Mātaatua waka (canoe) which travelled from Hawaiki to present-day New Zealand. When the Mātaatua first arrived in the Whakatāne...
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    were visited by many of the migratory canoes such as Aotea, Tākitimu, and Mātaatua. Only the largest islands such as Aotea / Great Barrier Island and Waiheke...
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    The area was reputedly named by Puhi, the captain of the legendary waka Mātaatua. The Māori-language word Whananāki means "kicking", and the name arose...
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  • sculpture by Peter Nicholls in Dunedin, New Zealand Toroa, captain of the Mātaatua waka This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • Matatua or Mataatua may refer to: Matatua (leafhopper), an insect genus in the tribe Empoascini Mātaatua, a voyaging canoe used by Polynesians to migrate...
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  • unlikely to have arrived at the same time[citation needed]) like Aotea, Mātaatua, Tākitimu, Tainui, Arawa etc. This proverb, or whakataukī describes how...
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    settlement. Pūkenga is the founding ancestor of the iwi. Pūkenga was of Mātaatua descent, and spent his life in Ruatoki. Upon his death, his people, known...
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  • 10 kilometres northwest of Matatā. It is said to be a place where the Mataatua Canoe made landfall on its journey along the coast from Tauranga. Known...
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    Rarotonga, and the Māori migration canoes Tākitimu, Te Arawa, Tainui, Mātaatua, Tokomaru, Aotea, and Kurahaupō passed through on their way to Aotearoa...
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    That same day, several Māori health providers including Te Puna Ora o Mataatua, the Ngāti Hine Health Trust, Te Kohao Health and Papakura Marae challenged...
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    ancestor Māhaki, who was a direct descendant of Toroa, captain of the Mātaatua canoe, of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the Tākitimu, and Paikea. He probably...
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