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This is a list of the Māori iwi of New Zealand . According to the glossary definition of the National Library of New Zealand, "iwi" is a "Māori word for a set of people bound together by descent from a common ancestor or ancestors. Literally: bone. Modern meaning: tribe."[1]
Iwi
Name
Rohe (location)
Waka (canoe)
People (2001)
Kāi Tahu - (see Ngāi Tahu below)
Kāti Mamoe - or "Ngāti Mamoe "
South Island
Moriori †
Chatham Islands
585
Muaupoko
Levin
1,836
Nga Rauru - or Ngāti Rauru
Taranaki
Aotea-utanganui
3,090
Ngāriki Kaiputahi - or Ngā Ariki
Gisborne
Te Ikanui-a-Rauru
2,083
Ngā Ruahine
Taranaki
3,228
Ngāi Tahu (also Kāi Tahu)
South Island
Tākitimu
39,180
Ngāi Tai - or Ngāti Tai
Hauraki
Tainui
177
Ngāi Tai - or Ngāti Tai
Bay of Plenty
2,022
Ngai Takoto
Northland
489
Ngai Tamanuhiri - or Ngāti Tāmanuhiri
Gisborne
1,173
Ngaiterangi
Matakana Island
9,561
Ngai Tuhoe
Te Urewera
Mataatua
29,259
Ngāpuhi
Northland
Ngatokimatawhaorua
102,981
Ngāpuhi ki Whaingaroa-Ngāti Kahu ki Whaingaroa
Northland
1,965
"Ngāti Ākarana "
Auckland
5,892
Ngāti Apa
Manawatu -South Island
3,021
Ngāti Awa
Kawerau -Bay of Plenty
13,044
Ngāti Hako
Hauraki Gulf
924
Ngāti Hau
Wanganui
Ngāti Hauā
Waikato
? 6,400
Ngāti Hauiti
Rangitikei
1,002
Ngāti Hei
Hauraki Gulf
363
Ngāti Huia
Waikato
Ngāti Kahu
Northland
Māmaru
6,957
Ngāti Kahungunu
Hawke's Bay -Wairarapa
Tākitimu
51,552
Ngāti Koata
South Island
765
Ngāti Kuia
South Island
Te Hoiere
1,224
Ngāti Kurī
Northland
4,647
Ngāti Mahuta
Waikato
Ngāti Mamoe
South Island
2,262
Ngāti Manawa
unknown
1,542
Ngāti Maniapoto
King Country Waikato
Tainui
27,168
Ngāti Maru (Hauraki)
Hauraki
Ngāti Maru (Taranaki)
Taranaki
Ngāti Mutunga
Taranaki -Chatham Islands
2,652
Ngāti Paoa
Hauraki Gulf
2,397
Ngāti Pikiao (Te Arawa)
Rotorua
5,022
"Ngāti Poneke "
Wellington
Ngāti Porou
East Cape
Horouta
61,701
Ngāti Pukenga
Tauranga
1,137
Ngāti Pūkenga ki Waiau
Hauraki Gulf
273
Ngāti Rāhiri Tumutumu
Te Aroha
93
Ngāti Ranginui
Tauranga
6,120
Ngāti Rangiteaorere (Te Arawa)
177
Ngāti Rangitihi (Te Arawa)
Bay of Plenty
1,041
Ngāti Rangiwewehi (Te Arawa)
1,551
Ngāti Rārua
South Island
699
Ngāti Raukawa
Waikato -Manawatu -Kapiti
Tainui
? 24,000
Ngāti Rauru - or Nga Rauru
Taranaki
Ngāti Rongomaiwahine
Mahia Peninsula
4,254
Ngāti Ruanui
Taranaki
Aotea-utanganui
5,286
Ngāti Ruapani
East Cape
Ngāti Tahu (Te Arawa)
1,209
Ngāti Tai - or Nga Tai or Ngai Tai
Hauraki Gulf
177
Ngāti Tama
King Country -Wellington -South Island -Chatham Islands
1,764
Ngāti Tāmanuhiri - or Ngāi Tāmanuhiri
Gisborne
Ngāti Tamaterā
Coromandel Peninsula
Tainui
1,866
Ngāti Tara Tokanui
Hauraki Gulf
Tainui
330
Ngāti Te Ata
Manukau Harbour
15,652
Ngāti Te Wehi
Aotea Harbour
Tainui
5000
Ngāti Toa /Ngāti Toarangatira
Porirua
Tainui
4,491
Ngāti Tukorehe
South Waikato
Tainui
Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri
Nelson -Marlborough -West Coast
Kurahaupō
Ngāti Tūtekohe
East Cape
Ngāti Tuwharetoa
Taupo
29,301
Ngāti Wai
Northland
3,966
Ngāti Whakaue
5,061
Ngāti Whanaunga
Waihi
399
Ngāti Whare
690
Ngāti Whātua
Kaipara Harbour
12,105
Pakakohi
Taranaki
408
Patukirikiri
Hauraki Gulf
60
Poutini
West Coast
Rangitane
Northern South Island
4,401
Rongowhakaata
Gisborne
3,612
Rongomaiwahine
Mahia
2,322
Tai Ngahu
South Island
1,094
Tainui
Waikato
35,781
Tangahoe
Taranaki
261
Tapuika (Te Arawa)
1,050
Taranaki
Taranaki
5,940
Tarawhai (Te Arawa )
114
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti
East Cape
Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki
Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa
Horouta
4,365
Te Arawa
Rotorua
Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi
Whanganui
8,820
Te Āti Awa
Taranaki , Wellington
Tokomaru
17,445
Te Aupōuri
Te Kao
7,848
Te Kawerau
Northland
228
Te Rarawa
Hokianga
11,526
Te Roroa
Northland
966
Te Uri-o-Hau
Northland
732
Te Whakatohea
Opotiki
9,948
Te Whanau-a-Apanui
East Cape
9,951
Tūhourangi (Te Arawa)
1,617
Uenuku-Kōpako (Te Arawa)
174
Waikato-Tainui see Tainui
Waikato Region
Tainui
52,000
Waitaha (Te Arawa)
? 1,800
Total iwi population
~616,746
† The Moriori people are often distinguished from the Māori people, but share common ancestors.[2] [3]
The location of iwi in New Zealand
See also
References
^ "Iwi: glossary definition" . National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 September 2012 .
^ See 1904 paper by A. Shand on The Early History of the Morioris
^ Skinner, H.D., The Morioris of the Chatham Islands, Honolulu, 1923. K. R. Howe. 'Ideas of Māori origins , Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand , updated 28 October 2008. Thomson, Arthur, The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present, Savage and Civilized , 2 vols, London, 1859, i, 61. Belich, James, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders, from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century , University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp.26, 65-66.
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