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Te Ruruku
Te Ruruku o te Rangi (fl. 1750-1800) was a Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi''. Born in the Wairoa River on the middle reaches of the Wairoa River in northern Hawke Bay, New Zealand, he was recruited as a war leader by Ngāti Tū, who gave him land in Ahuriri, where he became ancestor of the Ngāi Te Ruruku ''hapū''. Life Te Ruruku was the second child and eldest son of Te Kapuamātotoru and Te Whewhera. Through his father he was a direct male line descendant of Rakaipaaka, and through both parents he was descended from Kahungunu and Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the '' Takitimu'' waka from Hawaiki to New Zealand. and give one line of descent as: Te Kapuamātotoru – Puruaute – Te Huki – Tūreia – Tutekanao – Kaukohea – Rakaipaaka – Kahukuranui – Kahungunu. He had four sisters - Hinemaka, Hineori, Hinetunge, and Hine-i-nohi - and four brothers - Te Ipu, Raeroa, Hinerara, and Kokotangiao. Te Ruruku grew up in his parents' p ...
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Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ...
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Kahukuranui
Kahukuranui was a Māori ''ariki'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'' and ancestor of the Ngāti Kahukuranui hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. He led an expedition to Te Pōrangahau in order to avenge Tūpouriao and marry his widow Tū-teihonga. He may have lived in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. Life Kahukuranui was the son of Kahungunu and Rongomaiwahine. He was born at Nukutaurua on Mahia Peninsula and was the only one of their children to receive a ''whare-kōhanga'' ("nest house"), a building specially erected for the mother to give birth in. Through his father, he was a direct descendant of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the ''Tākitimu'' canoe. Through his mother, he was probably descended from Ruawharo, the tohunga (priest) of the ''Tākitimu'', and Popoto, one of the captains of the ''Kurahaupō'' canoe. Mitchell characterises him as a man of peace, like his father, who secured his position through marriages, notably with Ruatapu-wahine, an adoptive daughter ...
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Te Whanganui-a-Orotū
Ahuriri Lagoon () was a large tidal lagoon at Napier, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, that largely drained when the area was raised by the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Before the earthquake, the lagoon stretched several kilometres from north to south, and covered roughly 4000 hectares (ha), or 40 km2. The Tutaekuri River flowed into the southern end, and the Esk River into the northern end. Following the earthquake, the Esk was no longer able to flow into the lagoon and ran more directly to the sea. The Tūtaekurī still flowed into the lagoon after the earthquake but it caused flooding for the next few years, and by the end of the 1930s it had been diverted away from the lagoon to enter the sea at the mouth of the Ngaruroro River. The land rise in the earthquake drained much of the lagoon, leaving a smaller estuary. Land reclamation and drainage work further reduced the estuary to its present size of 470 ha. Cultural history Māori named the lagoon ''Te ...
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Mohaka
Mohaka is a small settlement in the northern Hawke's Bay region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the coast of Hawke Bay, 20 kilometres southwest of Wairoa. The Mohaka River reaches the coast close to Mohaka. Marae Mohaka has two tribal meeting grounds for the iwi of Ngāti Pāhauwera, and the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū of Kurahikakawa: Waiapapa-a-Iwi Mohaka Marae and Te Kahu O Te Rangi meeting house, and Waihua or Kurahikakawa Marae. In October 2020, the Government committed $1,949,075 from the Provincial Growth Fund Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the New Zealand First party. Jones' political career began 2005 New Zealand general election, in 2005 as a l ... to upgrade the two marae and 22 other Ngāti Kahungunu marae, creating 164 jobs. Education Mohaka School is a Year 1-8 co-educational state primary school. It is a decile 1 school with a ...
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Hikawera II
Te Hikawera was a ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti hapū of Ngāti Kahungunu, around the late seventeenth century. He maintained pā sites at Oueroa, Manahuna, and Kaimata, from which he exercised authority over the whole of Heretaunga. Later he also gained control of the area of Tarawera in the Ahimanawa Range He is responsible for the names of several geographic features in the Hawke’s Bay region and is the ancestor of Ngāti Pārau, formerly known as Ngāti Hikawera. Life Te Hikawera was the son of Te Whatuiāpiti and Te Huhuti. His father was the founding ancestor of Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti. Through both parents, he was a descendant of Rākei-hikuroa and ultimately of Kahungunu; Tamatea, who captained the ''Tākitimu'' canoe; and the early explorer Toi, but his mother and father belonged to different branches of the iwi, who had long been at variance. He had two older brothers, Rangiwawahia and Te Wawahanga; one younger brother, Keke; and a younger sist ...
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Tuku (Ngāti Hinepare)
Tuku may refer to: People * Shamsul Hoque Tuku (born 1948), Bangladeshi politician * Matiar Rahman Tuku, Bangladeshi politician * Golam Sarwar Tuku, Bangladeshi politician * Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, Bangladeshi politician * Oliver Mtukudzi (1952–2019), Zimbabwean musician * Tuku Morgan (born 1957), New Zealand politician Places * Tuku, Yunlin, a township in Taiwan * Tuku Nature Reserve, New Zealand * Tuco (mountain), in Peru * Tuku Wachanan Other uses * Tuku dialect of the Sakata language * Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ..., a city in Finland, written as 土庫 for Chinese Mandarin in Taiwan {{disambiguation, geo Masculine given names Bangladeshi masculine given names ...
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Ngāti Moe
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, roughly means or , and is often translated as "tribe". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some cluster into larger groupings that are based on (genealogical tradition) and known as (literally , with reference to the original migration voyages). These super-groupings are generally symbolic rather than logistical. In pre-European times, most Māori were allied to relatively small groups in the form of () and (). Each contains a number of ; among the of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word ''rohe'' for the territory or boundaries of iwi. In modern-day New Zealand, can exercise significant political power in the managem ...
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Ngāti Hineterangi
Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, roughly means or , and is often translated as "tribe". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, and is typically pluralised as such in English. groups trace their ancestry to the original Polynesian migrants who, according to tradition, arrived from Hawaiki. Some cluster into larger groupings that are based on (genealogical tradition) and known as (literally , with reference to the original migration voyages). These super-groupings are generally symbolic rather than logistical. In pre-European times, most Māori were allied to relatively small groups in the form of () and (). Each contains a number of ; among the of the Ngāti Whātua iwi, for example, are Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. Māori use the word ''rohe'' for the territory or boundaries of iwi. In modern-day New Zealand, can exercise significant political power in the manageme ...
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Heretaunga Plains
:''There are two places in New Zealand called Heretaunga. For the suburb of Upper Hutt, see Heretaunga, Wellington.'' The Heretaunga Plains is a alluvial plain at the southern end of Hawke Bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The towns of Napier, Hastings and Havelock North are on the plain. The plain was formed over the last 250,000 years from sediment deposited by the Tutaekuri, Ngaruroro and Tukituki Rivers and from coastal marine deposits. It consists of layers of gravel, sand and silt. Permeable gravel beds form aquifers and the artesian groundwater provides 85% of the requirements for public water supply, irrigation and industrial use on the Heretaunga Plains and adjacent areas. The fertile soil, the warm, dry climate of the area, and the water for irrigation make the plain an excellent site for horticulture and agriculture. Half of the total New Zealand production of fruit, vegetables and grapes is on the Heretaunga Plains. It is one of New Zeal ...
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Te Kahu-o-te-rangi
Te Kahu-o-te-rangi, originally Te Wainohu (died 1824) was a Māori people, Māori ''rangatira'' (chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu ''iwi'' and founder of Ngāti Pāhauwera in the Mohaka area of Hawke Bay of New Zealand. He was the leader of an expedition that successfully took revenge on Te Whānau-ā-Apanui for earlier attacks, but in this fight he was outshone by his cousin Te-O-Tane, which led to a long conflict between the two chiefs. Eventually, Te Kahu-o-te-rangi received the name Te Kahu-o-te-rangi from Te-O-Tane as a peace offering. Te Kahu-o-te-rangi also laid down boundaries for his territory, but there are differing accounts on the exact course of these borders. His descendants are named Ngāti Pāhauwera ("people of the singed beard"), because his beard was burnt when his head was being preserved after his death. Life Te Kahu-o-te-rangi was born with the name Te Wainohu at Pohonui-o-hine pā on the western bank of the Wairoa river. His father was Puruaute of Ngāti R ...
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