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The request by Ngati Whatua o Orakei and other tribes, such as Tainui, Kawerau and Ngati Paoa, for recognition within Auckland is not about race, it is about honouring existing agreements.
unknown title 2009
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Turangawaewae Mare (meeting ground), the eadquarters of the Tainui confederation of Maori tribes.
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Pei Te Hurinui Jones also had a publishing record, of books in English about Tainui traditions, and of translations from The Merchant of Venice (1946) and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1975).
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Narratives published by Mäori have usually been from their own tribes: Anaru Reedy's annotated transcription and translation of ancestral writing Ngä Körero a Mohi Ruatapu (1993), Jones and Biggs's Nga Iwi o Tainui (1995).
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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A new genre of tribal histories has arisen, some -- J.H. Mitchell's Takitimu (1944) for instance -- compiled by tribal members; these have put a tribal stamp on the literature, as have descriptive catalogues of treasured features of tribal territories such as F.L. Phillips's Landmarks of Tainui (1989).
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Arawa, and her name, that of the Tainui, and other of the canoes, are now borne by some of the great steamships that run to New
Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world 1767
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A large tribe on the east coast still bears the name of Arawa, and her name, that of the Tainui, and other of the canoes, are now borne by some of the great steamships that run to New Zealand.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Tainui plans to open an independent tertiary organisation, funded by the iwi.
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Tainui is eying tourism as a future money-spinner.
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"Tainui are just glowing in their praise of the amount of work she did, how she managed to push things through, how she was (Sir Robert) Mahuta's backbone really," he told
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