In the ensuing battle it was Ue-imua who was killed and his heart consumed by Tūhoe by this act Tūhoe acquired the mana of his elder brother.Įventually tiring of the infighting, Tūhoe-pōtiki left Rūātoki and travelled north. Tānemoeahi sided with Tūhoe against Ue-imua. Warfare erupted between the brothers and their people. Ue-imua threated to kill Tūhoe-pōtiki and eat his heart. Because of their ferocity in battle, the following saying arose: Kainga te kai, kei te haere te tokotoru a Paewhiti! Eat and run, the three sons of Paewhiti are on the rampage!Ī dispute arose among them over rights to cultivations near Ōwhakatoro Stream, a western tributary of the Ōhinemataroa River. The brothers had a fearsome reputation, and were known throughout the region as Te Tokotoru-a-Paewhiti (the three sons of Paewhiti). The pā of Tūhoe-pōtiki were Te Mauku and Ngā Taumata Tānemoeahi occupied Te Pūtiki pā, and Ue-imua resided at Kākā-tarahae pā. Tūhoe, his two elder brothers, Ue-imua and Tānemoeahi, and sister Uenuku-rauiri lived in the Rūātoki valley, 32 kilometres upstream from where the Ōhinemataroa River flows into Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi (Bay of Plenty). The Tūhoe tribe takes its name from Tūhoe-pōtiki, the youngest son of Tamatea-ki-te-huatahi (the grandson of Toroa) and Paewhiti, who was part Ngāi Tūranga and part Mataatua immigrant through her father Tāneatua. The Mataatua migrants, while extremely few in number, added vigour to the earlier peoples, to the extent that over several generations the identities of earlier tribes diminished as a Tūhoe identity emerged. ![]() These unions were to bring about new tribes, one of them being Ngāi Tūhoe. They and their descendants intermarried with the earlier peoples. Only Toroa, Tāneatua, Muriwai and their immediate families remained in the Bay of Plenty. Puhi and his descendants settled in the north, where they are known as Ngāpuhi. Some time after they reached Whakatāne a dispute arose between Toroa and Puhi over their cultivations, which ended with Puhi sailing northwards with the Mataatua and most of the crew. Also established were Ngāi Tūranga in the Rūātoki and Ōpouriao districts, Ngā Pōtiki at Ruatāhuna and Mārangaranga in the upper Rangitāiki valley. The new arrivals found the ancient tribe of Te Hapū-oneone occupying the district from Whakatāne to Ōpōtiki. The Mataatua landed first at Whangaparāoa (Cape Runaway) in the eastern Bay of Plenty, and then progressed to Te Mānuka Tūtahi (lone-standing mānuka) at the mouth of the Ōhinemataroa River. Among the crew were Toroa’s younger brother Puhi, his sister Muriwai, son Ruaihona and daughter Wairaka. When the Mataatua canoe arrived in New Zealand 18–20 generations ago, Toroa was the captain and his half-brother Tāneatua was the tohunga. Hapū-oneone consisted of related tribes including NgātiĪn old proverb sums up the character of the Tūhoe people: Inland to Waimana and over the Taiarahia range to Rūātoki. Rangimatoru canoe, landing at Ōhiwa Harbour in theĮastern Bay of Plenty. These people wereĭescendants of Hape, who came from Hawaiki on the In addition, Tūhoe trace their descent from theĬonfederation of Te Hapū-oneone. In the west, then inland to Kūhāwaea (Galatea) and Te Māhanga, and from Waimana in the east to the Rangitāiki River South from the mouth of the Ōhinemataroa River to Ngā The territories of Te Tini o Toi extended Tūranga, were known collectively as Te Tini o Toi (the Te Mārangaranga, Te Tini o Tuoi, Te Tini o Taunga and Ngāi The founding ancestor of many tribes that occupied a large Situated on the bluffs above present-day Whakatāne. Known as Toikairākau (Toi the Wood Eater) and his ancestor Tūhoe also belong to Te Tini o Toi lineage, being theĭescendants of Toitehuatahi (Toi the Lone Born), sometimes Tuahau, Tama-kai-moana, Ngāti Papa and Ngāi Tūmata-rākau. Some of the sub-tribes of Ngā Pōtiki were Ngāti Rākei, Ngāi Toitehuatahi (Toi) and Hape-ki-tumanui-o-te-rangi (Hape). Pēhi) maintained he was a contemporary of the ancestors Pōtiki’s origins is slender, the historian Elsdon Best (Te ![]() Of what is now the Urewera region, including Maungapōhatu, Migrants on the Mataatua canoe, they occupied much Ngā Pōtiki are the early ancestors of the people we know
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