Arawa Language
Arawa may refer to: * ''Arawa'' (canoe), one of the canoes that carried the ancestral Māori migrants to New Zealand * Te Arawa, a confederation of Māori tribes in New Zealand * Arawa, Bougainville, a town in Papua New Guinea * Arawa Rural LLG, a local-level government area in Papua New Guinea * Arawá language (extinct) belonging to the Arawan languages Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil ( Amazonas, Acre) and Peru ( Ucayali). Language contact Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Chapakura-Wañam ...

Arawa (canoe)
''Arawa'' was one of the great Māori migration canoes, ocean-going, voyaging canoes in Māori mythology, Māori traditions that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand. The Te Arawa confederation of Māori people, Māori iwi and hapū based in the Rotorua Lakes, Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas trace their ancestry from the people of this canoe. Background Te Arawa's ancestors on board the ''Arawa'' were of the Ngāti Ohomairangi of Raiatea, Ra'iātea Island. Following a battle that broke out between them and Uenuku, in which their own Whakatūria fell in battle, Tama-te-kapua promised to captain the voyage to the islands of New Zealand, which had been discovered by Ngahue, Ngāhue of the ''Tāwhirirangi'' canoe. Construction of the canoe A large tree was cut down by four men called Rata, Wahieroa, Ngāhue and Parata, to make the Waka (canoe), waka which came to be known as ''Arawa''. "Hauhau-te-rangi" and "Tūtauru" (made from New Zealand Pounamu, greenstone broug ...
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