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Kotahitanga

1. Māori Parliament, Federated Māori Assembly - a movement for self-government and national unity among Māori kinship groups during the 19th Century. Strong in the Wairarapa where two parliamentary meetings were held at Papawai in 1897.

Nā tēnei ahau tō koutou tungāne, te tangata hoki nāna i hapahapai ō koutou ingoa whakahuahua ki ngā marae, tae noa ki roto ki te Pāremata o Te Kotahitanga (TJ 12/10/1899:12). / I, your brother and cousin, am the person who repeatedly raised your names on the marae, even in the Te Kotahitanga Movement's parliament.

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