The NgatiKahungunuiwi, one of the largest tribes of New Zealand Maori, is based in Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay.
Its membership recorded at the 2001 census was 51,552, including Ngäti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngäti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngäti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngäti Kahungunu region unspecified, Ngäti Kahungunu ki Whanganui a Orotu, Ngäti Kahungunu ki Tamatea, and Ngäti Kahungunu ki Tamakinui a Rua.
Information obtained from Statistics New Zealand may be freely used, reproduced, or quoted unless otherwise specified.
Nga taumata : he whakaahua o NgatiKahungunu = a portrait of NgatiKahungunu : 1870-1906, NgatiKahungunuIwi Inc. [and] National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa ; [chief editor, Miria Simpson ; editor, whakapapa, Pat Parsons].
The origins of NgatiKahungunu, Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 1991.
Mitchell, J. Takitimu : a history of NgatiKahungunu, Wellington : AH and AW Reed, 1972.
Historically NgatiKahungunu Whanui was not an operating unit for any purpose, for it was too numerous and too widespread to function as a single entity.
The Pouakani Report 1993(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While this report does not deal with these claims, it is relevant to comment that government "settled" NgatiKahungunu grievances in Wairarapa by granting Crown land in territory well outside their traditional tribal lands.
We were also given to understand that the claimants in the Pouakani claim felt that if NgatiKahungunu were to be repatriated, then these lands should return to the tangata whenua.
The NgatiKahungunu ki Pouakani claims lodged with the tribunal will be investigated separately and in the context of NgatiKahungunu interests.
One hundred and thirty years ago NgatiKahungunu was at the forefront of what became known as the Land Repudiation Movement which was set up to repudiate the earlier taking of land by the Crown or individual colonisers and to prevent future alienations.
We have an ancient tradition of living with the sea on one of the longest coastlines in the country and we have never erected any artificial barriers between the whenua and the moana, between the foreshore and shore, or the seabed and the waters that flow with it.
The Repudiation Movement and the establishment of a Maori Parliament were 19th century attempts within NgatiKahungunu to remedy the constitutional imbalances and flawed interpretations of Te Tiriti that colonisation had imposed and profited from.
He commented: "On each side of this bluff head is a low, narrow sand or stone beach, between these beaches and the mainland is a pretty large lake of salt water I suppose." He said the harbour entrance, was at the Westshore end of the shingle beach.
When the NgatiKahungunu party of Taraia reached the district many centuries ago, the Whatumamoa, Rangitane and the Ngati Awa and elements of the Ngati Tara existed in the areas of Petane, Te Whanganui-a-Orotu and Waiohiki.
Later, the NgatiKahungunu became the dominant force from Poverty Bay to Wellington.
Hirini (Sidney) Whaanga Christy, great-grandson of Ngati Rakaipaaka and NgatiKahungunu leader Ihaka Whaanga, was born on 16 August 1883 at Nuhaka.
His mother, Mihi Mere Whaanga, was the eldest daughter of Hirini Te Rito Whaanga and his third wife, Mere Hunonga Schmidt (Mete) of Ngati Te Kauaha, a hapu of Ngati Rakaipaaka of Nuhaka.
In 1936 he made an unsuccessful submission for the Ngati Rakaipaaka people in their land claim against the Crown for part of the Nuhaka No 1 block; it was central to the claim later submitted to the Waitangi Tribunal.
Te Whanganui-a-Orotu Report 1995(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The blood shed by Ngati Pahauwera in the various battles was a paanga in itself to the land.
He writes that the killing of Te Ohomaori of Ngati Raukawa by Te Kahu o Te Rangi was one of the incidents that led to the 1820 taua in the first place.
We accept that Ngati Pahauwera assisted in driving Ngati Raukawa from Heretaunga and that some of their tipuna lie buried on the islands of Te Whanganui-a-Orotu as a result of earlier battles.
He was the chief of his Ngai Te Whatuiapiti tribe and his main hapu (sub tribes) were Ngati Te Manawakawa and Ngati Rangikoianake.
He had kinship links within NgatiKahungunu, Rangitane, Ngati Ira and other tribes throughout the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa regions, and was therefore very influential.
His father was Kurimate, also known as Te Rangikoianake II, and his mother was Tatari of the Ngati Tapuhara and Ngati Hinepare sub tribes of NgatiKahungunu.
I am told this conference is the start of putting NgatiKahungunu on the economic success map and in doing so putting your “own success stories forward”.
In NgatiKahungunu you have already achieved the beginnings of development of a mussel venture; been party to deregulating the pip fruit industry; instigated Mäori export branding of produce and have a joint venture relationship in the grape growing industry.
The examples of how NgatiKahungunu have developed over the past few years bodes well for future development but we must approach future development as a people together, and in partnership with whomever we need.
Of Ngati Rahiri and Ngati Pou and Ngati Marumaru of Te Reinga, Hawkes Bay.
TE WHAREUMU, TE HURITEA (Shulitea), KINGI HORI, (King George), a Northern Chief of Ngati Manu of Karetu and Otuihu in the Bay of Islands was also known as TE WHAREUMU of Mahia Peninsula of NgatiKahungunu and of Otara Marae at Opotiki.
The fifth was TE MAREMARE WATENE HARONGA of Ngati Hineata of Ngati Porou, Nga Urewera, NgatiWhatua.
Richard Spence(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The tribe NgatiKahungunu, the descendants of Kahungunu, occupy the lower east coast of the North Island, from the southern edge of Gisborne, around Mahia Peninsula and down Hawkes Bay to the Waiararapa.
Kahungunu was a mighty man, so the stories say, who wielded his weapon of fatherhood skilfully and with vigour, and to such effect that many thousands of people now own him as ancestor.
The hapu Ngati Pahauwera take their name from their famous ancestor Te Kahu o te Rangi, not in life but after his death.
The major accomplishment of that hui was to lay the foundations for the tribes economic acceleration by building a network of NgatiKahungunu in business, land and government.
The last time NgatiKahungunu held a series of events that changed the course of its history was in 1939 and 1940 when Sir Apirana Ngata came to urge NgatiKahungunu to join the war effort.
There are similarities between his call "To Pay The Price of Citizenship" and this call for NgatiKahungunu to kickstart our economy.
A Ngatikahungunu weaver who resides in Wairoa, Nigel has a passion for weaving and likes to experiment with his weaving style, while at the same time exercising an utmost respect for the art-form and the traditional bases it stems from.
The use of plaster and shells stems from the craftwork practiced by Maori women for Women's league displays of the 1950's and are based on tribal histories.
A NgatiKahungunu artist who hails from Wairoa, Parekura's interests include Raranga, Whatu, Taaniko, Painting and Carving.
NgatiKahungunu are disappointed in the edict given by the state services commissioner using the public service code of conduct as a tool to prevent our Maori whanau in the Public Service standing alongside their people in the Hikoi.
While we understand the public service code of conduct issues relate the bringing the Public Service into disrepute, we consider that the Public Service and the Government have already brought themselves into disrepute through their work on the Foreshore and Seabed legislation.
We urge all our Kahungunu whanau and public servants, regardless of rank and title, to come and stand beside us in our opposition to the Foreshore and Seabed legislation and the State Services promotion of the pedagogy of the oppressed.
May 5th 2004 NgatiKahungunu and 40,000 others took to the streets of Wellington to Hikoi against the Labour Government Foreshore and Seabed bill.
On Friday 19th November 2004 we will be representing our iwi, hapu, whanau, tamariki, and mokopuna of today and tomorrow to show our opposition to the racist, immoral and nationally divisive legislation that the Labour party and NZ First are driving through parliament.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
