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This list includes groups recognised as iwi (tribes) in certain contexts. Many are also hapū (sub-tribes) of larger iwi. Moriori are included on this list. Although they are distinct from the Māori people, they share common ancestors.
Māori are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (commonly known by the Māori name Pākehā). In addition, more than 170,000 Māori live in Australia. The Māori language is spoken to some extent by about a fifth of all Māori, representing three per cent of the total population. Māori are active in all ...
Many iwi names begin with Ngāti or with Ngāi (from ngā āti and ngā ai respectively, both meaning roughly ' the offspring of '). Ngāti has become a productive morpheme in New Zealand English to refer to groups of people: examples are Ngāti Pākehā ( Pākehā as a group), Ngāti Poneke (Māori who have migrated to the Wellington region ...
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2023) This is a list of hapū (New Zealand Māori sub-tribes). [1 K ...
People belonging to the Māori indigenous people of New Zealand, generally believed to have arrived from eastern Polynesia between 800 and 1300.There has been considerable intermarriage with later immigrants, but people with any Māori ancestry may consider themselves to be Māori, by custom and law in New Zealand.
This is a list of Māori waka (canoes). The information in this list represents a compilation of different oral traditions from around New Zealand. These accounts give several different uses for the waka: many carried Polynesian migrants and explorers from Hawaiki to New Zealand; others brought supplies or made return journeys to Hawaiki; Te Rīrino was said to be lost at sea.
Tauranga Moana are a grouping of Māori iwi (tribe) based in and around the Tauranga Harbour and Bay of Plenty. The grouping consists of Waitaha-a-Hei, [1] Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāi Te Rangi and its hapū Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore. [2] [3] They trace their origins back to the Mataatua waka.
Ngāi Tahu, or Kāi Tahu, is the principal Māori iwi (tribe) of the South Island.Its takiwā (tribal area) is the largest in New Zealand, and extends from the White Bluffs / Te Parinui o Whiti (southeast of Blenheim), Mount Mahanga and Kahurangi Point in the north to Stewart Island / Rakiura in the south.