- Ngāti Tūwharetoa hapū of Ngāti
Hinerau and Ngāti Hineure. It
includes the
Kurapoto meeting house.
Waipahihi covers 3.84 km2 (1.48 sq mi) and had an estimated...
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Werewere was a seventeenth-century Māori
rangatira (chieftain) of Ngāti
Kurapoto and Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the
region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand. Werewere...
-
leaders in the Ngāti Tūwharetoa
invasion of Taupō,
fighting against Ngāti
Kurapoto and Ngāti Hotu, and Subsequently, he led an
attack on Ngāti Apa, who were...
- Taupō region. In
response to an insult, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
attacked Ngāti
Kurapoto,
based on the
northeastern coast of Taupō. In the
course of the conflict...
-
revenge for the
murder of Taniwha-pare-tuiri, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti
Kurapoto attacked Ngāti Whitikaupeka, a hapu of Ngāti Kahungunu.
After the war the...
- However, Tūwharetoa felt
compelled to send an
expedition against Ngāti
Kurapoto to
avenge the
insult represented by the curse.
According to Grace, the...
- Hinemihi's
sister Hine-aro came to
Whakatane along with a
group of Ngāti
Kurapoto,
bringing huahua (cooked birds,
preserved in
their own fat). This was Hinemihi's...
- Lake Rotongaio,
where they
attacked a
village of Ngāti Tahu and Ngāti
Kurapoto,
killing one
chief and
leaving his head on a rock. They
travelled on to...
- This was
known as the
Battle of Nukutaurua. The
survivors fled to Ngāti
Kurapoto kin at
Tarawera in the
Ahimanawa Range, with Tūpurupuru’s bones, some of...
- 1959, p. 196. Reed 2016.
Grace 1959, p. 197.
Grace 1959, p. 197. Ngāti
Kurapoto claim that the name
derives from an
event in the life of
their ancestor...
