Iwi in a sentence

The protest was led by local iwi Ngātu Manuhiri and members of Te Herenga Waka o Ōrewa Marae.

With a large proportion of iwi and Māori business leaders from across Aotearoa joining Hipkins, it is also expected they will discuss work in Australia towards better recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights.

Names are a big deal in my whānau, hapū and iwi — although the name Megan was an unexciting last resort when I surprised my parents, who thought I was boy and had a name sorted for him.

Council has been working in partnership for many years now with Te Tau Ihu iwi, the community and key agencies in the region to continually improve the health of the Maitai/Mahitahi River.

Mr Peters, a proud Ngati wai iwi member and the most senior Maori in Jacinda Ardern's government, made the claim on Tuesday as New Zealand considers the reintroduction of social norms.

Obviously being an iwi-owned company here in the South Island, they’ve put a really unique lens across farming; a really holistic approach.

Goff said yesterday there was nothing more the council could do, but councillor Cathy Casey today asked him to facilitate a meeting between iwi, the council, the Crown and other interested parties at Ihumātao.

Last year, the company celebrated 25 years and established the I‘iwi Fund, a dream my wife, Cindy, and I have shared for a long time.

Ngaropo hopes that the island will be returned to his iwi with input from tribal authorities in the area so they can collectively decide its future and foster their spiritual connection with the volcano.

One of the Save Our Unique Landscape campaign leaders, Pania Newton, said people were arriving from all over the country to oppose a Fletcher Building development on land considered sacred by iwi.

Toi Ora is a local vision, determined by the eighteen iwi in 2007.

Aoraki brings the iwi with its sense of community and purpose, and remains the physical form of Aoraki and the link between the worlds of the supernatural and nature.

In New Zealand pre-contact Māori tribes were not a single people, thus the more recent grouping into tribal (iwi) arrangements has become a more formal arrangement in more recent times.

In this way, iwi will come to have a central role in the revitalisation of te reo in their own areas.

Many iwi owned flour mills, ships and other items of European technology, some exported food to Australia for a brief period during the 1850s gold rush.

Resisting and co-operating iwi both found that Pākehā desire for land remained.

The largest Māori iwi is Ngapuhi with 122,211 people or 24 percent of the Māori population.

The means of acquiring land was to defeat another hapu or iwi in battle and seize their land.

They were motivated partly by the thought that an alliance with the government would benefit them, and partly by old feuds with the iwi they fought against.

When an iwi was divided over the question of selling this could lead to great difficulties as at Waitara.