2. (noun) leaves for wrapping food in for cooking in a hāngī.
Ka mutu, ka tae te koroheke rā ki ngā kākahu me ngā kōhatu, ka hoatu ki te taina, me te kī atu ki a ia, “Ko ngā rautao ēnā mō tā tāua tamaiti, ko ngā kōhatu anō tērā hei tao (JPS 1905:77). / And then the old man took the garments and the stones, gave them to his younger brother, saying: “Here are some rautao (covering for the oven) for our child, and here are the stones for the cooking.
Taiaroa, Te Mātenga
1. (personal name) (?-1863) Ngāi Tahu; chief and warrior who fought against Te Rauparaha and Ngāti Toa and their allies, eventually driving them out of the South Island. He played a major role in establishing peace between Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Toa.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 152-160;)
Horomia, Parekura Tureia
1. (personal name) (1950-2013 ) Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu; labourer, printer, civil servant, Labour Party politician. Elected for the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate in 1999. Minister of Māori Affairs in 2000-2008. Played a significant role in setting up Māori Television and expanding the role of iwi radio in New Zealand. Renowned for his strong ties with the people of his electorate and Māori generally.
Tama-i-hara-nui
1. (personal name) (?-1830/31?) Ngāi Tahu; ariki in the northern part of the South Island who was captured by Ngāti Toa when he, his wife and daughter were tricked into boarding Captain John Stewart's brig, Elizabeth, eventually being tortured and killed by the wives of Ngāti Toa chiefs killed at Kaiapoi pā. Also known as Te Maiharanui.
(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 148-160;)
Mead, Hirini Moko
1. Ngāti Awa; carver, writer, professor and leader of Ngāti Awa. Educated at Te Teko, St Stephen's School, Te Aute, University of Auckland and the University of Southern Illinois from which he graduated with a PhD. Lecturer at the University of Auckland and then founding Professor of Māori at Victoria University of Wellington. Establish Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi at Whakatāne. Chief negotiator for the Ngāti Awa claims settled in 2005. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2003.
Maihāroa, Hipa Te
1. (personal name) (?-1885/86) Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe; leader, tohunga and prophet, he and his followers established a new settlement called Te Ao Mārama (Ōmārama) where he sought to protect his community from Pākehā influence. He fought a long campaign to regain lost Ngāi Tahu lands.
Tākitimu
1. (personal noun) a migration canoe - the crew of this canoe from Hawaiki are claimed as ancestors by Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Ranginui.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 31;)
Kātahi ka kumea mai e rātau a Tākitimu ki uta rawa kia kore ai e riro i te tai (HP 1991:29). / Then they pulled Tākitimu right up on the shore so that it wouldn't be carried away by the tide.
See also Tākitumu
Pōmare, Māui Wiremu Piti Naera
1. (personal name) (1875/76?-1930) Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa; leader, medical officer, health reformer and politician, he graduated MD in 1899. He held the Western Māori seat from 1911 until his death.
Ko Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare tētehi o te whakatupuranga o ngā kaingārahu Māori i kuraina i te Kāreti o Te Aute i te tekau tau atu i 1890 (TTR 1996:137). / Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare was one of the generation of Māori leaders educated at Te Aute College in the 1890s.
2. (noun) the tribe that formerly occupied much of the South Island before they were displaced by Ngāti Māmoe, who in turn were later dominated by Ngāi Tahu.
Dewes, Te Kapunga Matemoana (Koro)
1. (personal name) (1930-2010) Ngāti Porou; educator, orator, leader and authority on Ngāti Porou language and traditions. From the hapū of Te Whānau a Rakairoa, Te Whānau a Hunaara, Te Whānau a Hinerupe, Te Whānau a Te Aopare and Tūwhakairiora, he was awarded an honoury Doctor of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington in 2004.
Ngāi
1. (personal noun) Prefix for some tribal groups' names with an ancestral name usually beginning with 'T', now written as a separate word, e.g. Ngāi Tahu.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 43;)
Heoi, nō taua wā anō ka tae mai te rongo, kua horo a Te Tumu pā i Kaituna, Maketū rā, kua mate a Ngāi Te Rangi i a Te Arawa (JPS 1900:70). / It was about this time that news arrived of the fall of Te Tumu pā, at Kaituna, near Maketū, in which the Ngāi Te Rangi tribe was defeated by Te Arawa.
2. (personal noun) Also used with māua, tāua, kōrua and tātou or a noun to indicate a group of people not necessarily a tribal group, e.g. Ngāi Mātaatua. When used to preface a group other than a recognised iwi or hapū, ngāi is not capitalised. Nor is the accompanying word that completes the expression.
O ngā haka katoa e mahia ana e ngāi tātou koinei anake te haka e mau rākau ai te katoa o ngā kaihaka. / Of all the haka that we perform this is the only kind where all the performers wield weapons.
