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Te Kani-a-Takirau

Index Te Kani-a-Takirau

Te Kani-a-Takirau (1790s – 1856) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader. [1]

59 relations: Bay of Islands, Bracket, Christchurch, Circa, Dillon Bell, Donald McLean (New Zealand politician), French ship Astrolabe (1811), Gisborne District, Gisborne, New Zealand, Hatchet, Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi, Henry Williams (missionary), Hinematioro, HMS Endeavour, Iwi, James Cowan (New Zealand writer), Joel Samuel Polack, Joseph Angus Mackay, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Leonard Williams (bishop), London, Mahia Peninsula, Mana, Māori King Movement, Māori language, Māori people, Māori religion, Māui (Māori mythology), Musket, Necklet, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, Ngāti Porou, North Island, Opotiki, Pāua, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, Percy Smith (ethnologist), Pourewa Island, Poverty Bay, Queen Victoria, Rangatira, Rangihoua Bay, Ropata Wahawaha, Taupo, Tītore, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Thomas Grace (missionary), Titirangi (hill), Tolaga Bay, Treaty of Waitangi, ..., Trochus, Victoria University of Wellington, Waiapu Valley, Waikato, Wellington, Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Whangara, Whitcoulls, William Williams (bishop). Expand index (9 more) »

Bay of Islands

The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Bracket

A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

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Dillon Bell

Sir Francis Dillon Bell (8 October 1822 – 15 July 1898) was a New Zealand politician of the late 19th century.

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Donald McLean (New Zealand politician)

Sir Donald McLean (27 October 1820 – 5 January 1877) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and government official.

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French ship Astrolabe (1811)

Astrolabe was a horse barge converted to an exploration ship of the French Navy and was originally named Coquille.

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Gisborne District

The Gisborne District (Te Tai Rāwhiti) is an area of northeastern New Zealand governed by the Gisborne District Council.

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Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne (Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa "Great standing place of Kiwa") is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region).

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Hatchet

A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammer head on the other side.

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Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi

Hēnare Mātene Te Whiwhi (?–1881) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader, missionary and assessor.

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Henry Williams (missionary)

Henry Williams (11 February 1792 – 16 July 1867) was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century.

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Hinematioro

Hinematioro (–1823) was a New Zealand tribal leader.

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HMS Endeavour

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

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Iwi

Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.

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James Cowan (New Zealand writer)

James Cowan (14 April 1870 – 6 September 1943) was a New Zealand non-fiction author, noted for his books on colonial history and Maori ethnography.

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Joel Samuel Polack

Joel Samuel Polack (28 March 1807 – 17 April 1882) was an English-born New Zealand and American businessman and writer.

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Joseph Angus Mackay

Joseph Angus Mackay (9 September 1882–30 September 1952) was a New Zealand journalist, newspaper editor and historian.

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Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.

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Leonard Williams (bishop)

William Leonard Williams (1829–1916) was an Anglican Bishop of Waiapu.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mahia Peninsula

Mahia Peninsula (Maori: "Te Māhia"), is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the cities of Napier and Gisborne.

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Mana

Mana, in Austronesian languages, means "power", "effectiveness", and "prestige".

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Māori King Movement

The Māori King Movement or Kīngitanga is a movement that arose among some of the Māori 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.

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Māori language

Māori, also known as te reo ("the language"), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.

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Māori people

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

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Māori religion

Māori religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and practices of the Māori, the Polynesian indigenous people of New Zealand.

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Māui (Māori mythology)

In Māori mythology, as in other Polynesian traditions, Māui is a culture hero and a trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness.

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Musket

A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.

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Necklet

A necklet is a type of decoration which is designed to be worn and displayed around a person's neck, rather than hung (draped) from the chest as is the standard practice for displaying most decorations.

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New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) (Te Pūhikotuhi o Aotearoa) was renamed in 2012 the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection due to internal restructuring.

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Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi traditionally located in the East Cape and Gisborne regions of the North Island of New Zealand.

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North Island

The North Island (Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Opotiki

Opotiki (Ōpōtiki, from Ō Pōtiki mai Tawhiti) is a small town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Pāua

Pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (in which there is only one genus, Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells.

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Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (died 25 June 1860) was a Māori warrior, leader of the Waikato iwi (tribes), the first Māori King and founder of the Te Wherowhero royal dynasty.

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Percy Smith (ethnologist)

Stephenson Percy Smith (11 June 1840 – 19 April 1922) was a New Zealand ethnologist and surveyor.

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Pourewa Island

Pourewa Island lies in Tolaga Bay, just offshore from Cook's Cove in New Zealand.

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Poverty Bay

Poverty Bay (Tūranganui-a-kiwa) is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rangatira

Rangatira are the hereditary Māori leaders of hapū, and were described by ethnologists such as Elsdon Best as chieftains (p. 88).

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Rangihoua Bay

Rangihoua Bay is a bay at the southern end of the Purerua Peninsula, on the north-west shore of the Bay of Islands in Northland, New Zealand.

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Ropata Wahawaha

Ropata Wahawaha (– 1 July 1897) was a Ngāti Porou war chief who rose to prominence during New Zealand's East Cape War and to senior command during Te Kooti's War.

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Taupo

Taupo (also spelled Taupō) is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo, which occupies the caldera of the Taupo Volcano in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Tītore

Tītore (c1775-1837) (sometimes known as Tītore Tākiri) was a Rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe).

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Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti

Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti is a Māori iwi (tribe) on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Thomas Grace (missionary)

Thomas Samuel Grace (16 February 1815 – 30 April 1879) was an English Anglican missionary in New Zealand.

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Titirangi (hill)

Titirangi is a hill in Gisborne city, New Zealand.

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Tolaga Bay

Tolaga Bay (Uawa) is both a bay and small town on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island located 45 kilometres northeast of Gisborne and 30 kilometres south of Tokomaru Bay.

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Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first signed on 6 February 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs (Rangatira) from the North Island of New Zealand.

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Trochus

Trochus is a genus of medium-sized to large, top-shaped sea snails with an operculum and a pearly inside to their shells, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Waiapu Valley

Waiapu Valley, also known as the Waiapu catchment, Waiapu River valley or simply Waiapu, is a valley in the north of the Gisborne Region on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Waikato

Waikato is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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Whangaparaoa Peninsula

Whangaparaoa Peninsula is a suburban area about 25 km north of Auckland in New Zealand.

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Whangara

Whangara is a small community in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Whitcoulls

Whitcoulls is a major national bookstore, stationery, gift, games & toy store chain in New Zealand, formerly known as Whitcombe & Tombs.

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William Williams (bishop)

William Williams (18 July 1800 – 9 February 1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu and the father and grandfather of two others.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Kani-a-Takirau

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