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| 37 | <Content><h2>Ngati Tahuhu</h2><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>From the very earliest days, the shores of <em>Whangarei </em>Harbour and its environs were rich in </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.35pt&quot;>everything that made it desirable as a place to live to the <em>Maori. Tangaroa </em>had filled the sea </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.25pt&quot;>with fish and shellfish with a lavish hand. <em>Tane's </em>forests were full of good timber while feeding </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>in the treetops were fat <em>kukupa </em>and <em>tui. </em>It was indeed a land of plenty.</span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>When <em>Tahuhu, </em>who came to <em>Aotearoa </em>in the canoe <em>Moekakaroa, </em>arrived in about the year 1350 he was immediately drawn to this place, and said to his men, <em>&quot;Tena le koha O Tangaroa me </em></span><em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>Tane, hoki&quot; - </span></em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>behold the gifts of <em>Tangaroa </em>and <em>Tane.</em></span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.4pt&quot;>He and his people landed just south of Bream Bay at a place he called Te <em>Arai </em>because he built </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.35pt&quot;>a temporary shelter there. To safeguard his people against the <em>makutu </em>of the <em>tangata whenua, </em></span><em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.9pt&quot;>Tahuhu </span></em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.9pt&quot;>also set up a <em>tuahu, </em>which was a stone altar that stood a few feet high in a </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>perpendicular position.</span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>Most tribes had a <em>tuahu </em>at which many rites were carried out by their <em>tohunga - </em>ceremonies for </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.25pt&quot;>christening, for childbirth, planting and harvesting of <em>kumara, </em>special fishing expeditions. In fact, </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>for anything of importance to the tribe.</span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.25pt&quot;>After living at <em>Te Arai </em>for some years <em>Tahuhu </em>was filled with a desire to explore the country </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.4pt&quot;>further south so he called his people together and said, &quot;Listen, 0 my people, a great desire to visit the lands further south fills my every thought and makes me as restless as a fantail. Day </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.35pt&quot;>and night I am consumed with a curiosity to know about the lands further south. Come, let us </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>make preparations for the journey.&quot;</span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.35pt&quot;>So <em>Tahuhu </em>and his tribe journeyed to the Auckland isthmus until they found a spot that pleased him so much that he decided to live there. He set his men to work to build a <em>kainga </em>where he </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>and his people could live. He called the place after himself, <em>0-tahuhu </em>as it is known to this day. </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>Many of his tribe married into the <em>Wai-ohua, </em>the local people and lived there in prosperity.</span></font></p><p><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.35pt&quot;>As the tribe expanded, they laid claim to more land, and then inevitably there were quarrels with the neighbouring peoples of west <em>Tamaki. </em>This made the <em>Ngati Tahuhu </em>unpopular and it is said </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.45pt&quot;>that <em>Tahuhu </em>died because a curse was put on him by an enemy <em>tohunga. </em>On his death some of </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>his people took his body back to be buried at <em>Te Arai, </em>his original home in <em>Aotearoa.</em></span></font> </p><p style=&quot;margin: 10.8pt 7.2pt 0pt 0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.65pt&quot;>Some of the <em>Ngati Tahuhu </em>stayed behind at <em>Otahuhu </em>but those who came north with their </span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.4pt&quot;>chiefs body rebuilt their kainga at Te <em>Arai. </em>Gradually some members of the tribe spread from </span><em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>Te Arai </span></em><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 0.3pt&quot;>to the shores of the <em>Whangarei </em>Harbour while others went as far inland as <em>Mangakahia </em></span><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>Valley.</span></font></p><p style=&quot;margin: 10.8pt 7.2pt 0pt 0cm&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;><font color=&quot;#000000&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'&quot;>Referenced from Florence Keene's <em>Tai Tokerau</em>, Northland Room, Whangarei Library</span></font></p></Content>
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