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This is a list of iwi (New Zealand Māori tribes). List of iwi. This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts. Many are also hapū (sub ...
Te Tai Tokerau Māori are a group of Māori iwi (tribes) based on the Northland Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island. It includes the far northern Muriwhenua iwi (tribes) of Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Kurī, Te Pātū, Te Rarawa and Ngāi Takoto. It also includes Ngāpuhi and the affiliated iwi of Ngāti Hine.
Ngāti Whātua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the lower Northland Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island. [1] It comprises a confederation of four hapū (subtribes) interconnected both by ancestry and by association over time: Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te Taoū, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara and Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei. The five hapū can act together ...
As of the 2013 New Zealand census, 61.1% of the population live in cities with populations of 30,000 and larger, compared to 65.6 of the Māori population overall.The Census showed 94.% of the iwi lived in the North Island and 5.8 percent lived in the South. 33.9 percent are under the age of 15 years, 22.4 percent are aged 15–29 years, and 5.4 percent are aged 65 years and over.
Ngāpuhi / Ngāti Kahu ki Whaingaroa are a Maori iwi from the Whangaroa harbour area in Northland, New Zealand. [1] The iwi's rohe (tribal territory) covers [1] Two similarly named iwi — Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa — are also located in Northland. [2]
The hapū (sub-tribes) of the Ngāti Hine rohe (tribal area) include: Ngāti Kahu o Torongare, based at Mohinui marae and Hohourongo meeting house in Waiomio; Ngāti Kōpaki, based at Ōtiria marae and Tūmatauenga meeting house in Ōtiria; Ngāti Ngāherehere, based at Matawaia marae and Rangimarie meeting house in Matawaia
The kūaka (bar-tailed godwit) is the symbol of the tribes; their annual migration from the Muriwhenua harbours represents the successful escape. [ 2 ] Later, the Whangape chief Ueoneone travelled to Waikato , where he fell in love with the sisters Reitū and Reipae and proposed to marry them.
Ngātiwai or Ngāti Wai is a Māori iwi of the east coast of the Northland Region of New Zealand. Its historical tribal area or rohe stretched from Cape Brett in the north to Takatū Point on Tawharanui Peninsula in the south and out to Great Barrier Island, the Poor Knights Islands and other offshore islands. [1]