loves lament

My uncle (Hikairo Herangi)has just passed away. Not that long after the death of his wife(Rawe). A similar scenario to my younger sibblngs' inlaws.

Hikairo

Tomorrow is my uncle’s unveiling. As in tradition my nephew is being named After him. Hikairo the name being passed to my nephew. Taku teina (my younger brother Hekewaru asked for the name for his grandson. It was given By uncle Bart. Thus the naming of his grandchild Hikairo.

A lady with many fine qualities. A personal viewpoint. She has been dead for over ten years now!

Reign	23 May 1966 – 15 August 2006
Coronation	23 May 1966
Full name	Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu
Born	(1931-07-23)23 July 1931
Birthplace	Waahi Marae, Huntly, New Zealand
Died	15 August 2006(2006-08-15) (aged 75)
Place of death	Turangawaewae Marae, Ngaruawahia, New Zealand
Buried	Mount Taupiri, New Zealand, 21 August 2006
Predecessor	Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero
Successor	Tuheitia Paki
Consort	Whatumoana Paki
Issue	7 children: Heeni Katipa (née Paki); Tomairangi Paki; Tuheitia Paki; Kiki Solomon (née Paki); Mihi Gabrielle Paki; Maharaia Paki; and Te Manawanui Clarkson (née Paki)
Royal House	Te Wherowhero
Father	Korokī Te Rata Mahuta Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero
Mother	Te Atairangikaahu Herangi

my fifttieth birthday.

It was a wet Wednesday. Arriving at the Delta Tavern. In my new van. All the relevant people were there. It was a quiet birthday. The formalities dispensed with. It was a good night all 'n all.

Kahui arriki.

Kotiro Paki was the third child of five to hori Kupai Paki and Te Marae Mahuta. Her brothers and sisters included Tonga now deceased the oldest,  Wairangi now living in Austrralia, Bimbo also living in Australia,Te Okewhare my mum she was whangai'd out (fostered out) by the out by Kahui Ariki- maori royal family. There were four  in tourwhangai'ed children.  3 girls and 1 boy. All the whangied (adopted children)

 

Maea Walker, Mahinarangi ...;Te Okewhare Murru

 

 

 Here is her whangied(adopted) brother Mr Robert
tekotahi Mahuta.Uncle bubs as he
known by us children and
 his close friends.  

                

The continual cellebratiions of Turangawaewae's river culture.

 

 

The Turangawaewae regatta had its beginnings in March 1896 when the community of Ngaruawahia held an official carnival of the banks of the Waikato and Waipa rivers. Earliest regattas were held at the Point, at the confluence of the two rivers. The Turangawaewae Marae community staged the regatta permanently from 1973, following flooding at the Point.
The purpose of the regatta was to encourage aquatic sports and Maori customary river activities, with particular emphasis on the preservation of ancient customs and traditions.
Ko Ngaruawaahia taku turangawaewae - Ngaruawaahia shall be my footstool. Words uttered by Taawhiao, and ones which have echoed through time symbolising that Ngaruawaahia would always be a place for Waikato Tainui people to find strength, security and a sense of belonging. Ngaruawaahia, where for over 100 years, two rivers and a yearly regatta have linked Maori and Pakeha together. It is a time when the older generation will re-live and remember the past, where the rangatahi learn about the past in an atmosphere of fun and where all will celebrate the river and its culture.

 

 

The last of the last

The last of the last.

 

 Hikairo herangi. A quiet and unassuming man

who passed away quietly during the week.

A very knowledgeable kaumatua. (He taonga) a valuable resource lost to Maoritaanga. Related to my mum who gave him the nickname Nigel

I like ice hockey now tops before it was varsity tops

I'm lusting after a Ice hockey tops now. Before it was varsity tops now its ice hockey top. Why? Because they are so huge and colourful. 

COPIED OFF THE TURANGAWAEWAE SITE.

 

 

 

    

Tungia te ururua kia tupu
whakaritorito te tupu o te harakeke

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The histories of native peoples are often silenced, relegated to ‘pre-history’: before history really began and foreign lands were ‘discovered’ by a Columbus or a Cook. Enough of the singular and narrow story of history. My question here is simply this: What are the little-known histories that disturb and disrupt the dominant idea that “if it wasn’t for us, you’d still be running around in grass skirts?“

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10.  There was no Great Migration

There wasn’t? I hear you cry, mystified.  No indeed, and why – because our navigators and sailors ROCKED THE BOAT!!  I kid you not. It has been a source of frustration to New Zealand academics throughout the 19th and  20th century to try and figure out the mystery of Māori migration.  For years it has been written in school history books that a fleet of waka arrived together to these shores in around 1300. The Great Migration.  Its a convenient tale for a number of reasons.
First it implies that this all-at-once settlement of New Zealand came about by chance.  Apparently some people don’t find it hard to believe that an entire extended whanau; mum, dad, uncles, aunties, cousins, elders and so on would just jump in a boat and push off for … wherever?!  A “lets just see where the wind blows us” kinda deal.  Who does that?  So by this thinking it was really a matter of luck that these early  Māori  stumbled across the land under the long white cloud – Aotearoa.  Back in the day, newly pulled up to port in big flash ships like the Endeavour, deep-sea voyaging by Māori must have seemed an impossible feat to early (un)settlers looking aghast at waka that seemed to be held together by little more than plant material.
Secondly, to acknowledge separate arrival times over several centuries was to think the unthinkable.  That Māori had made deliberate back and forth voyages across vast areas of the Pacific displaying navigational skills far beyond those of their European counterparts who at that time were still clinging to the shores of their own lands.  It no doubt helped that Māori don’t appear to have bought into the notion as the European world had, that the earth was flat.  Not if their expeditions across Te Moana nui a Kiwa (Pacific Ocean) with very little apparent fear falling off the edge, are anything to go by.

9.  Māori only sometimes were warriors

Contrary to novels and movies and the latest genetic ’science’, Māori once were warriors only at certain times of the year.  You can think of it like ‘war season’.  E hika, with kumera to plant, titi to gather, and fish to catch how on earth could peoples be off making constant war and still survive?  Its a crazy idea but for some strange reason one that has spread like proverbial wild fire.  Unlike countries now who employ a professional class of warrior (called armies) that can be sent off to do battle for oil freedom, Māori did not find their people quite so disposable.  Archaeologists – those weird academics that spend all their time digging,  haven’t been able to find evidence of large scale battles prior to colonisation.  No evidence of widespread flesh-eating (as in human) either, but that hasn’t stopped that particular myth from doing the rounds every 20 years or so.
Which doesn’t mean that when needed Māori didn’t kick kumu on the battlefield.  As (un)settlers found in long battles where even with strength of numbers on their side, their foe were difficult to defeat.  A historian mate assures me that in the history of colonial warring in Aotearoa it is the disposability of a large number of crown soldiers rather than any military prowess that bought battles to an end.

8.  In fact, Māori led the world in peaceful protest

Te Whiti o Rongomai, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin L King Jr. Note any similarities?

While much of the world pays homage to Ghandi as artist supreme in the art of peaceful resistance, it was in fact Te Whiti o Rongomai who beat Ghandi to the (non) punch by several generations.  And the Ghandi Foundation acknowledge him as such, suggesting Te Whiti’s peaceful resistance may have inspired this global leader, in much the same way he then inspired Martin Luther King.  In 2003 an international delegation of representatives of Martin Luther King Jnr and Mohandas Gandhi came to Aotearoa to pay homage to Te Whiti’s deeds post-humously.  Which given the international honour being shown was covered extensively by the media: television, newspaper … I mean you do remember that right?  No?  Funny that.
The story of Parihaka is recounted in full here, As a quick brush up, in the late 1800s massive land confiscation at odds with the tricky treaty’s guarantee to Māori of ‘full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries’ and so on and so on, was getting on tangata whenua’s last nerve (to put it mildly).  At Parihaka Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi led a peaceful movement to disrupt the land-grab going on all around them.  Frustrating the process by pulling up surveyors’ pegs and ploughing on confiscated land; any form of violence was strictly forbidden (strange for savages).  How was the peaceful movement countered?  With the 1800s version of the Terrorism Suppression Act, allowing peoples to be arrested en mass, and held without trial.  Hundreds of men and boys were shipped down south and forced to work – contributing to the infrastructure of cities like Dunedin.  Te Whiti and Tohu were arrested and detained in the South Island also.  In order to put this uppity duo in their place they were shown the wonders of European technology.  To which Te Whiti responded:

“The Pākehā have some useful technology but not the kindness of heart to see that Māori also possessed much great technology which if adopted would lead to stability, peace and a great new society.“

No wonder he was considered a madman by many.

7.  Māori once were geographers

Te Ika a Maui, shaped like a stingray

Māori history has it that Maui fished up the North Island – Te Ika a Maui from his canoe – the South Island – Te Waka o Maui.  This taonga tuku iho has been handed down for generations.  When looking at a map today, it is very evident that these two bodies of land do indeed mirror the shape of a fish (a whai or stingray) and a waka.  Yet as old as this story is, how did Māori know the topography of the land, when no aerial view was available to them?  Geographical skills of course.
But wait, that’s not all.  Much is made of the nuisance of taniwha when it comes to roading or building developments. According to ‘common sense’ this is just Māori holding up progress or trying to make a quick buck.  But NO, not according to Auckland University’s Dr Kepa Morgan, a senior lecturer in civil and environmental engineering.  It seems that taniwha may well serve as important symbol or warning sign, of land not suitable for flash new highways or highrise developments.  Ngati Naho protested the construction of State Highway 1 near Meremere several years back citing a problem for their taniwha Kura Tahi.  Their concerns were heeded and 14 months after the highway was finished the Waikato River flooded.  If the highway had been built on its original site it would have cost thousands to repair; thanks to Kura Tahi the road, and the taniwha, were safe.
Not so at Ngawha where several years later concern was expressed that the taniwha Takauere would be irked by the building of Ngawha Prison.  This time the powers that be weren’t so open minded and carried on regardless.  Since completion there have been numerous problems with the stability of the prison’s foundations – basically its sinking into the ground.  An issue that had already cost the Government $100 million more than originally budgeted to build the prison in the first place.

6.  Māori once were astronomers

Several years ago a talkback announcer, displaying the usual depth of knowledge talkback announcers have (think: puddle in January), was bemoaning Māori objections to genetic modification and exclaimed: “This is science.  What the hell would they know about science”.  Hmmmm.  Science to this dude obviously comes in a white coat (not to mention white skin).  To the contrary, early Māori displayed scientific genius; not least of which was evident in their intimate knowledge of the stars.  As Elsdon Best somewhat begrudgingly put it:

“It is assuredly a fact that in former times the average Maori knew much more about the stars than does the average man among us.”

And here we’re not talking just descriptive knowledge: a series of names and understanding of their location and appearance at certain times of the year – though undoubtedly this too.  It is the system of scientific use made of that knowledge that was astounding – from navigation and gardening to the marking of time.  It was obvious to even the most ‘scientific’ of the time that Māori had spent considerable time studying the heavenly bodies.  This was the knowledge of the tohunga kokorangi, the Māori astronomers. None of these bodies is perhaps as well known as Matariki (Twinking Eyes), known by the Europeans as Pleiades and the Japanese as Subaru (every time you see the Subaru logo on the back of a car, you’re looking at Matariki) which heralds the beginning of the Māori New Year.  But that knowledge was not limited to just stars. Māori had names for comets, meteors, and clouds too.  From those consisting of several strata (layers) -matahauariki, to fragments of cloud or purei ao; as well as a working knowledge of what these various forms meant in terms of weather patterns.  Meteorologists then too – chur.  It was English Anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor who in the late 1880s said:

“It always happens in the study of the lower races that the more means we have of understanding their thoughts the more sense and reason do we find in them.”

You don’t say.

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Exploding the Myths II to come… ma te wa!

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 One of the things that has put me off the Facebook pages and arguing with red necks is the constant droning repetitve statements which invariably go,”do the Maori like electricity, the internet, proper homes, medical care, because without the white man coming here blah, blah, blah…. – again that whole notion of bringing civilization and knowledge to the unruly savages. (though I was unaware that the first colonizers had toasters, microwaves and such when they got here. And gee, thank god they brought all those antibiotics and such as well along with the disease they toted along.) In those comments it reinforces what you are writing and what the educational “system” puts into our heads from the first day of school as children, much less university. I certainly do not recall any modules in my American education about the culture of American Indians, and it was almost as a footnote we had mentioned George Washington Carver, an African American who should have a bloody national holiday in his honour.
By the way, watched the debate last evening and thought Hone was awesome. I may be a bit biased but I thought he was the star.
Aroha,
Robb

The ngau tuara phenomenon.

                   The ngau tuara phenomenon.


Ngau tuara-translated literally means back stabber.  In my circle of friends though varied they maybe. You need to be prepared for my family/friends rants and raves always comical you need a sense of humour especially if
you role with me. At times it may get serious the trick is learning to differentiate between the tone and text of the conversation. My dad is the head honcho. For someone who has been confined to a wheelchair. In fact my whole family we're all ngau tuara's(back stabbers).

My family (me and my brother) play fopr our tupuna.

 Playing the game I love because my brother and I feel it's entrenched in our
blood. We both played for the jersey and the very proud tradition my whanau who include Tonga Mahuta, Pop Raihe, Harry Waikai, Rick Muru.

NZ Maori

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Wednesday October 9^th
Re: New Zealand Maori Invitation XIII to play Murri Queensland Indigenous Side.
New Zealand Maori Rugby League chairman John Devonshire is delighted NRL players Sam Rapira, Bodene Thompson and Charlie Gubb have made themselves available for the NZ Maori side and their two match series against the visiting Murri Queensland Indigenous side. "We also had Adam Blair from the West Tigers and Api Pewhairangi from the Parramatta Eels but Adam needs off season surgery and Api has been selected to play in the world cup for Ireland through his mothers ancestry."
The experience these three bring to the side will be a huge boost and along with New South Wales Cup players Steve Waetford, Kurt Kara and Scott Jones, this too will also help the cause.
It's a good mix with young Warriors Holden Cup player Kouma Samson and Waikato teenager Hamiora Mihaka also being named in the side. Mihaka has had a huge season with his championship winning club side Taniwharau, representing Waikato and his zone Waicoa Bay, attending the Universities World Cup in England with the NZ Students and now the NZ Maori team. The nineteen year old fullback or centre certainly will relish the opportunity to rub shoulders with these higher skilled players.
Maori rugby league has a huge history in New Zealand rugby league plus the numbers that play the game around the country at all levels, especially south of Auckland where the Maori communities exist, places such as Huntly in the Waikato, Waitara in Taranaki, Gisborne Tairawhiti, Te Awa Kairangi in Wellington. It is an awesome opportunity to build relationships with our Aboriginal Indigenous brothers.
The Murri People are part of the Artie Beeston Foundation, named after one of Australia's finest players obviously of Aboringal descent. Beetson's sons along with former NRL stars Tony Currie and Nathan Black lock will be part of the Queensland entourage.
Game One: Davies Park, Huntly   3.00pm   Saturday October 19^th
Game Two: Puketawhero Park, Rotorua   3.30pm   Saturday October 26^th

New Zealand Maori Rugby League XIII to play Queensland Murri Indigenous

No.	Name	Club	Competition	Based
1	Steve Waetford	Auckland Vulcan's	NSW Cup	Auckland
2	Thyme Nikau	Howick Hornets	Fox Memorial	Auckland
3	Rusty Bristow	Papakura Sea Eagles	Fox Memorial	Auckland
4	Zebastion Luisi	Howick Hornets	Fox Memorial	Auckland
5	Tee Mahe	Glenora Bears	Fox Memorial	Auckland
6	Cody Walker	Mount Albert Lions	Fox Memorial	Auckland
7	Jody Henry	Brisbane North Devils	Queensland Cup	Brisbane
8	Sam Rapira	NZ Warriors	NRL	Auckland
9	Kurt Kara	Newtown Jets	NSW Cup	Sydney
10	Charlie Gubb	NZ Warriors	NRL	Auckland
11	Bodene Thompson	West Tigers	NRL	Sydney
12	Rulon Nutira	Hornby Panthers	Canterbury	Christchurch
13	Scott Jones	Canberra Mounties	NSW Cup	Canberra
14	Hamiora Mihaka	Taniwharau	Waicoa	Hamilton
15	Tony Tuia	Howick Hornets	Fox Memorial	Auckland
16	Jay Pukepuke	Halswell Hornets	Canterbury	Christchurch
17	Kouma Samson	NZ Warriors	Holden Cup	Auckland

Kaumatua Pokaia Nepia
Coach Daryn Pirini
Manager Anaru Thompson
Trainer Anaru Tara
Physio Arianna Carroll

 

 

 

 

NZ Maori v England 18 all,  October, 2010

NZ Maori line up before the match. All Golds v New Zealand Maori at
Yarrow Stadium, New Plymouth. Sunday, 12 October 2008

 

 

 

polyfest wesly college contribution.



The Polyfest now is massive with the practises of each specific cultural item back then it was known as the intersecs. Back in the seventies late seventies to be exact there were the intersecs held at St.Stephens back in the days when it was an all boyz school. Our head boy was Temuera Morrison. He was a cool leader he and his cousin Hiwaroa were members of our Polynesian group

Turangawaewae rugby league.  My first rugby league club. I've played for club most of my life.

I then played for Taniwharau,  Otahuhu. Then had stint of playing the other code for Taupiri rugby.

Now I'm back playing for Turangawawae Rugby League. A non playing member obviously.

The Māori have had a wonderful record of beating international touring teams over the years. In 1983 they visited Britain and a side containing future Kiwis stars like Hugh McGahan, Dean Bell and Clayton Friend proved too strong for the amateur opposition they played. For many years, the Māori have competed in the Pacific Cup alongside other teams with a strong presence of New Zealand-based players—Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands, so they thought it was right they should have the opportunity to follow these teams to the World Cup. The invitation to the Māori to take part in the 2000 World Cup came about as a result of promises made to them by the defunct Super League International Board at the height of the Super League war that tore the game apart in the southern hemisphere.

 

The historic waka (canoe) Te Winika, seen here on the Waikato River in 1971, was restored by a team of carvers led by Piri Poutapu in the 1930s. Poutapu, who had a carving school at Tūrangawaewae marae, researched Waikato carving styles and carved the bow, figurehead, sternpost and sides. In 1973 the Māori queen, Dame Te Ātairangikaahu, gifted Te Winika to Waikato Museum.

Steven Adams (born 28 July 1993) is a New Zealand professional basketball player who currently plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After playing college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers, he was labeled a top international prospect for the NBA.^[1] Adams was selected by the Thunder with the 12th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft
His father, Sid Adams, was an Englishman who settled in New Zealand after serving in the Royal Navy. Steven was the youngest of Sid's 18 children with five different women; his mother is Tongan. Steven's siblings and half-siblings are notable for their unusual size and athletic prowess. Adam's brothers average 6'9" (2.06 m), and his sisters average 6' (1.83 m).^[2]
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nga waka taua o Tainui

As an ex-kaihoe (paddler) of nga waka taua o Tainui (war canoes of tainui.) It .felt like a huge honour and privelege to rowing those big
waka up and down the the waikato river. For our ariki then and now. now our king and geusts. The names of the t

the Delta and Waiparn synonymous with Ngaruawahia for family and freinds of Ngaruawahia.  

If you're a visitor to the never nevers of Ngaruawahia there are only four places.... No! change that to two places - to frequent for an evenings entertainment.

The Delta tavern and the Waipa tavern. These two taverns are synonymous with the two local rugby league clubs in Ngaruawahia.

The Waipa Tavern

 



 In todays vernacular what has become known as the battle of the bridge.

 



my desires feed me more.



My daily diary has become like a drug to (a natural high though.)

Like a drug feeds the bodys' need
for fulfilment.
          

nga whanaunga.

When I was young I would spend heaps of my holiday time at all my


anau's situated in many areas throughout Te ika-a-Maui (north Island).
From Maungaturoto in the North. Wairoa and, Ruatoria on the east coast.
Was this a fiendish plan of my parents. All'n'all it seems to have worked
out all for the good. I still have strong whanau bonds with all my whanau
now!

To be more descriptive I have very strong bonds with all my whanau.