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Awa tribe stories12/7/2023 The gift acknowledged the generosity shown by Ngāti Porou during the early trading period. This was Ngāti Porou’s only formal occupation of a territory outside their traditional homeland. In the early 1800s some sections of Ngāti Porou moved to Harataunga (Kennedy Bay, Coromandel), where land was gifted to them by the Chief Pāora Te Putu. One of the tribe’s greatest assets today is its isolation and strong sense of sovereignty – mana motuhake. The native forests were largely cleared in the early days of farming, while quite significant stands of radiata pine have been planted since the mid-1950s. The traditional tribal area is mountainous, hilly and blessed with a long beautiful coastline. The Gisborne region is regarded as the overlapping boundary between the two canoes.Īs set out under the Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Porou Act 1987, Ngāti Porou’s internal boundaries are from Pōtikirua in the north to Te Toka a Taiau in the south. It then runs north along the Raukūmara Range. The traditional Horouta canoe territory is from Te Taumata-ō-Apanui in the north to Paritū in the south, then inland to Ngāti Ruapani territory and to Waikaremoana. It sits inside the two canoe boundaries of Horouta and Tākitimu. The Ngāti Porou homeland is the most easterly region of the North Island. Tribal boundaries and resources Ngati Porou tribal boundaries This is the result of the marriage of the ancestress Māhinaarangi to Tūrongo, which produced the famous ancestor Raukawa. Ngāti Porou is also linked through the Kahungunu whakapapa to the prominent Tainui–Waikato tribes. She produced two sons, Tawhiwhi and Māhaki, who in turn are important members of Ngāti Porou and the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki sub-tribes. His daughter Tauheikurī is also a key ancestor for both Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu. Their founding ancestor Kahungunu is a direct descendant of Porourangi. To the south of the region is the large tribe of Ngāti Kahungunu. They were further bound by the marriage of Hamoterangi to both brothers. The tradition says that Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou are descended from the brothers Porourangi and Tahupōtiki. Ngāi Tahu, the largest South Island tribe, is known as the ‘younger brother’. Taua was the son of the famous marriage of Hingangaroa to Iranui (Kahungunu’s sister), both descendants of Porourangi. This tribe is referred to as the senior line, because one of its prominent members, Taua, was settled in that region after a dispute with his brother. Ngāti Porou is proud of their links with kindred tribes such as Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. May you cohabit with the daughter of Te Whironui. Their marriage is commemorated in ‘Paikea’, the anthem of Ngāti Porou, with the words:Į ai tō ure ki te tamāhine a Te Whironui. He married the beautiful Huturangi, daughter of Te Whironui, who had arrived with his wife Āraiara in the Nukutere canoe. Paikea was buoyed ashore by calling upon his sea gods and ancestors. The tragedy is known in Ngāti Porou history as Te Huripūreiata. Uenuku belittled Ruatapu as a low-born son, and in revenge Ruatapu killed all of Uenuku’s older sons out at sea the sole survivor was Paikea. She then married Uenuku and had a son named Ruatapu. The ancestress Paimahutonga had been taken captive by the great Hawaiki chief Uenuku. His story is shadowed by treachery in Hawaiki, where a battle took place over family status and rivalries, and ended in the slaughter by Ruatapu of some 70 ‘brothers’, his senior kin. The epic character Paikea is a key ancestor who came to New Zealand on the back of a whale.
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