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The iwi (tribe) consists of 13 hapū (sub-tribes).. Each is associated with a marae (communal ground) and wharenui (meeting house). Ki Te Whānau a Haraawaka, of Tunapahore marae and Haraawaka wharenui
Whānau (Māori pronunciation: [ˈɸaːnaʉ]) is the Māori language word for the basic extended family group. Within Māori society the whānau encompasses three or four generations and forms the political unit below the levels of hapū (subtribe), iwi (tribe or nation) and waka (migration canoe).
There are about 80 marae (Māori meeting grounds) in the Gisborne District of New Zealand. [1] They include the marae of six iwi (tribes): [2] Ngāti Porou, [3] Te Aitanga-ā-Hauiti, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, [4] Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, [5] Ngai Tamanuhiri [6] and Rongowhakaata.
Rongopai is a great painted wharenui (meeting house) built at Waituhi for Te Kooti in 1887 by the Whānau-a-Kair hapū of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki iwi.Local leader and politician Wi Pere was part of the process in creating the wharenui. [3]
The settlement has three marae of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui.. Ōmāio Marae and Rongomaihuatahi meeting house is a meeting place for the hapū of Te Whānau a Nuku. [5] In October 2020, the Government committed $1,646,820 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade the marae and five others, creating 10 jobs.
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Whānau Ora (Māori for "healthy families") is a major contemporary indigenous health initiative in New Zealand, driven by Māori cultural values. Its core goal is to empower communities and extended families to support families within the community context rather than individuals within an institutional context.
The smallest level, whānau, is what Westerners would consider the extended family, perhaps descended from a common great-grandparent.Traditionally a whānau would hold in common their food store (their forest or bush for hunting birds and gathering or growing plant foods, and a part of the sea, a river or a lake for gathering eels, fish, shellfish, and other seafood).