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Tama-te-rangi now led a war party against Tu-te-kohi to get revenge for his family's earlier defeat and expulsion from the Tūranga region. The force gathered at Te Mania in Marumaru, but when they were about to depart, Tama-te-rangi would not come out to perform the tohi ritual, without which the war party could not set out.
Māui, the son of Taranga, was born prematurely and thrown into the sea wrapped in a tress of his mother's topknot; he is found by his ancestor Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, who nurses him to health. After introducing himself to his mother and brothers and living with them, he came to wonder where Taranga went to during the day.
Te-O-Tane was the son of Ta Maaha and his second wife Te Arawhiti. Through both parents, he was a descendant of Tama-te-rangi, the founding ancestor of his hapū and thence from Pawa and Kiwa who captained the Horouta waka and Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Takitimu. [1]
Tamamutu was the oldest son of Te Rangi-ita and Waitapu. [1] Through his father, Te Rangi-ita, he was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. [2] His mother was the daughter of Te Ata-inutai of Ngāti Raukawa, through whom he was a descendant of Hoturoa, captain of the Tainui canoe. [3]
Tapuwae Poharutanga o Tukutuku was a Māori upoko ariki (head chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi and Ngāi Tamaterangi hapū in the Wairoa area of Hawke Bay of New Zealand.He developed a fierce rivalry with his brother, Te Maaha, and as a result, their father, Te Okuratawhiti, split the Wairoa River valley between them, giving Tapuwae the eastern bank.
Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi (died 1836 or 1837), also known as Te Pūoho-ki-te-rangi, was a notable New Zealand tribal leader. A Māori , he identified with the Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Toa iwi . Te Pūoho was born in Poutama , Taranaki , New Zealand, possibly in the late eighteenth century.
Te Rau-angaanga belonged to the senior chiefly line of Ngāti Mahuta. His father was Tuata, whose father was Tawhia-ki-te-rangi, whose father was Te Putu, the chief who lived at Taupiri pā on Taupiri mountain. [2] Te Rau-angaanga married Parengaope, daughter of a chief of Ngāti Koura, a hapū (subtribe) of Waikato. [1]
The Ngāti Tama migrated south in the 1820s in search of better opportunities (e.g. trade) and to ensure their safety, as there was a conflict with musket-carrying Tainui people. They were led by their paramount chief Te Pūoho-o-te-rangi, along with his brother Te Kaeaea and other chiefs.