Ngāi Tahu
1. (personal noun) tribal group of much of the South Island, sometimes called Kāi Tahu by the southern tribes.
(Te Kākano Textbook (Ed. 2): 113; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 142-160;)
Ehara i te mea mō Ngāi Tahu katoa ēnei kōrero, engari mō tētahi o ōna hapū, arā, mō Ngāti Huirapa (TP 1/4/1900:9). / It's not as if this account is for the whole of Ngāi Tahu, but it's about one of the subtribes, Ngāti Huirapa.
