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Iwi

Index Iwi

Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. [1]

89 relations: Ancestor, Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, Bastion Point, Bay of Plenty, Canoe, East Cape, Gisborne, New Zealand, Hapū, Hauraki Gulf, Hauraki Māori, Hawaiki, Here, There & Everywhere (company), High Court of New Zealand, John White (ethnographer), Kawhia Harbour, Keri Hulme, Lower Hutt, Manawatu District, Massey University, Māori culture, Māori King Movement, Māori language, Māori Party, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand, New Zealand Army, New Zealand English, New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy, New Zealand national rugby union team, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Poneke, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Rānana, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Whātua, North Island, Northland Region, Opotiki, Orakei, Ownership, Pākehā, ..., Politics of New Zealand, Polynesian languages, Porirua, Poverty Bay, Power (social and political), Public opinion, Radio Active (New Zealand), Rātana, Rohe, Rotorua, Self-determination, South Island, Taranaki, Taupo, Tūmatauenga, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Te Arawa, Te Āti Awa, Te Māngai Pāho, Te Rauparaha, Te Urewera National Park, The Bone People, The New Zealand Herald, Tino rangatiratanga, Tradition, Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements, Tribe, University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, Waikato, Waikato Tainui, Waitomo District, Waka (canoe), Wellington, Whakapapa, Whakatane, Whakatōhea, Whānau. Expand index (39 more) »

Ancestor

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Auckland University of Technology

Auckland University of Technology (AUT) (Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status.

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Bastion Point

Bastion Point (Kohimarama or) is a coastal piece of land in Orakei, Auckland, New Zealand, overlooking the Waitematā Harbour.

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Bay of Plenty

The Bay of Plenty (Te Moana-a-Toi) is a large bight in the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.

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East Cape

East Cape is the easternmost point of the main islands of New Zealand.

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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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Hapū

In Māoridom and New Zealand, a hapū ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society".

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Hauraki Gulf

The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana is a coastal feature of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Hauraki Māori

The Hauraki Māori are a group of Māori iwi at or around Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand.

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Hawaiki

In Polynesian mythology, Hawaiki (also rendered as "Avaiki" (Society Islands), "Savai'i", (Samoa), "Havai’i" (Reo Tahiti)) is the original home of the Polynesian peoples, before dispersal across Polynesia.

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Here, There & Everywhere (company)

Here, There & Everywhere (HT&E), formerly known as APN News & Media, is an Australian media company.

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High Court of New Zealand

The High Court of New Zealand is a superior court established in 1841.

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John White (ethnographer)

John White (3 January 1826 – 13 January 1891) was an English public servant and ethnographer in New Zealand, known for his work on the history and traditions of the Māori people.

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Kawhia Harbour

Kawhia Harbour (Maori: "Kāwhia") is one of three large natural inlets in the Tasman Sea coast of the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme (born 9 March 1947) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

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Lower Hutt

Lower Hutt (Awakairangi) is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Manawatu District

The Manawatu District is a local government district in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Massey University

Massey University (Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Раlmеrstоn Nоrth, Nеw Zеаlаnd, with significant campuses in Аlbаny and Wellington.

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Māori culture

Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand (an Eastern Polynesian people) and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture.

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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 Party

The Māori Party (Te Pāti Māori) is an indigenous rights-based political party in New Zealand, formed on 7 July 2004.

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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) (Māori: Manatū Taonga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on policies and issues involving the arts, culture, heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors, and participating in functions that advance or promote those sectors.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand Army

The New Zealand Army (Ngāti Tūmatauenga, "Tribe of the God of War") is the land component of the New Zealand Defence Force and comprises around 4,500 Regular Force personnel, 2,000 Territorial Force personnel and 500 civilians.

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New Zealand English

New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken by most English-speaking New Zealanders.

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New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy

The New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy is a debate in the politics of New Zealand.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, called the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's rugby union, which is known as the country's national sport.

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Ngāi Tahu

Ngāi Tahu, or Kāi Tahu, is the principal Māori iwi (tribe) of the southern region of New Zealand.

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Ngāi Tūhoe

Ngāi Tūhoe, often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori iwi ("tribe") of New Zealand.

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Ngāpuhi

Ngāpuhi (or Ngā Puhi) is a Māori iwi located in the Northland region of New Zealand, and centred in the Hokianga, the Bay of Islands, and Whangārei.

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Ngāti Kahungunu

Ngāti Kahungunu is a Māori iwi located along the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāti Maniapoto is an iwi (tribe) based in the Waikato-Waitomo (flowing water-cave water) region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Ngāti Poneke

Ngāti Pōneke Young Māori Club is a Māori cultural club that was formed in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1937.

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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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Ngāti Raukawa

Ngāti Raukawa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Waikato, Taupo and Manawatū/Horowhenua regions of New Zealand.

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Ngāti Rānana

Ngāti Rānana is a Māori cultural group based in London.

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Ngāti Ruanui

Ngāti Ruanui is a Māori iwi traditionally based in the Taranaki region of New Zealand.

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Ngāti Tama

Ngāti Tama is a historic Māori iwi of present-day New Zealand.

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Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi (Māori tribe) descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand.

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Ngāti Toa

Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Toarangatira or Ngāti Toa Rangatira, is a Māori iwi (tribe) in the lower North Island and upper South Island of New Zealand.

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Ngāti Whātua

Ngāti Whātua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the lower Northland Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island.

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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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Northland Region

The Northland Region (Te Tai Tokerau) is the northernmost of New Zealand's 16 local government regions.

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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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Orakei

Orakei (Ōrākei) is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property.

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Pākehā

Pākehā (or Pakeha) is a Māori-language term for New Zealanders of European descent.

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Politics of New Zealand

The politics of New Zealand function within a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democracy.

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Polynesian languages

The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia and on a patchwork of outliers from south central Micronesia to small islands off the northeast of the larger islands of the southeast Solomon Islands and sprinkled through Vanuatu.

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Porirua

Porirua is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.

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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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Power (social and political)

In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.

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Public opinion

Public opinion consists of the desires, wants, and thinking of the majority of the people; it is the collective opinion of the people of a society or state on an issue or problem.

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Radio Active (New Zealand)

Radio Active is an alternative radio station broadcasting in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Rātana

The Rātana movement is a church and pan-iwi political movement founded by Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in early 20th-century New Zealand.

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Rohe

The Māori people of New Zealand use the word rohe to describe the territory or boundaries of iwi (tribes), although some divide their rohe into several takiwā.

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Rotorua

Rotorua (Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe "The second great lake of Kahumatamomoe") is a city on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua from which the city takes its name, located in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Self-determination

The right of people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a jus cogens rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms.

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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Taranaki

Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island, administered by the Taranaki Regional Council.

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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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Tūmatauenga

In Māori mythology, Tū or Tūmatauenga (Māori: 'Tū of the angry face') is the god of war, hunting, food cultivation, fishing and cooking.

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Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is an online encyclopedia created by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage of the New Zealand Government.

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Te Arawa

Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori iwi and hapu (tribes and sub-tribes) based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas of New Zealand, with a population of around 40,000 who trace their ancestry to Te Arawa waka or canoe.

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Te Āti Awa

Te Āti Awa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Taranaki and Wellington regions of New Zealand.

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Te Māngai Pāho

Te Māngai Pāho (Māori Broadcast Funding Agency) is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for promotion of Māori language and culture by providing funding for Māori language programming on radio, television and music.

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Te Rauparaha

Te Rauparaha (1760s – 27 November 1849) was a Māori rangatira (chief) and war leader of the Ngāti Toa tribe who took a leading part in the Musket Wars.

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Te Urewera National Park

Te Urewera National Park was established as a national park in New Zealand's Te Urewera area in 1954 and disestablished as such in 2014, when it was replaced by a legal entity named Te Urewera.

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The Bone People

The Bone People (styled by the writer and in some editions as the bone people) is a Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel by New Zealand writer Keri Hulme.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

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Tino rangatiratanga

Tino rangatiratanga is a Māori language term that can be interpreted as 'absolute sovereignty'.

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Tradition

A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

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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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Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements

Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements have been a significant feature of New Zealand race relations and politics since 1975.

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Tribe

A tribe is viewed developmentally, economically and historically as a social group existing outside of or before the development of states.

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University of Auckland

The University of Auckland (Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the largest university in New Zealand, located in the country's largest city, Auckland.

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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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Waikato

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

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Waikato Tainui

Waikato Tainui, Waikato or Tainui is a group of Māori people iwi (tribal confederation) based in Waikato Region, in the western central region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Waitomo District

Waitomo District is a territorial authority, located in the Waikato region, at the north of the King Country area in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Waka (canoe)

Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel, to large decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.

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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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Whakapapa

Whakapapa, or genealogy, is a fundamental principle in Māori culture.

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Whakatane

Whakatane (alt.; Maori: "Whakatāne") is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region in the North Island of New Zealand, 90 km east of Tauranga and 89 km north-east of Rotorua, at the mouth of the Whakatane River.

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Whakatōhea

Whakatōhea is a Māori iwi located in the eastern Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand.

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Whānau

Whānau is a Māori-language word for extended family, now increasingly entering New Zealand English, particularly in official publications.

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Māori tribe, Māori tribes, Ngāi, Ngāti.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwi

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