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Name all the Maori tribes in New Zealand
Ngapuhi (125,601)
Ngati Porou (71,049)
Ngai Tahu (54,819)
Waikato (40,083)
What are the names of the 7 waka that arrived in Aotearoa?
Various Māori traditions recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large double-hulled ocean-going canoes (waka). Some of these traditions name a mythical homeland called Hawaiki. ... Rather than arriving in a single fleet, the journeys may have occurred over several centuries.
What are the names of all the Kiingitanga kings and queen?
Story summary.
Origins of the Kīngitanga.
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, 1858–1860.
Tāwhiao, 1860–1894
Korokī, 1933–1966.
Te Rata, 1912–1933, and Te Puea.
Mahuta, 1894–1912
Te Atairangikaahu, 1966–2006, and Tūheitia, 2006–
What are the Maori names for the North and South island?
The original names are Te Ika a Maui, meaning the fish of Maui, for the North Island, and Te Wai Pounamu, the waters of greenstone, for the South Island.
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. How many years have Maori been in Aotearoa?
Māori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, they settled here over 700 years ago. They came from Polynesia by waka (canoe). New Zealand has a shorter human history than any other country.
Who were the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in Aotearoa? and where did they come from?
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Catholicism was introduced to New Zealand in 1838 by missionaries from France, who converted Māori. As settlers from the British Isles arrived in New Zealand, many of them Irish Catholics, the Catholic Church became a settler church rather than a mission to Māori.
Region: New Zealand
Pope: Pope Francis
Language: English, Māori, Latin
When did the British forst arrive in Aoteroa and where?
Under the leadership of British statesman Edward G. Wakefield, the first British colonists to New Zealand arrive at Port Nicholson on Auckland Island. In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the South Pacific island group that later became known as New Zealand.