đ975-2007 - Te AhI Kaa Roa – Keeping the Homes Fires Burning
đ939-1974 – Ka Whawhai Tonu Taatau – Movements of Activism đ901-1938 – Te Waa Taurangi – The Seeds of Change đ861-1900 - Te Waa Taka Noa - Land Loss and Alienation đ841-1860 - Te Pakiaka o te Riri – Law and Intervention đ801-1840 - Te Whare Tapu o Ngaapuhi - Building the House of Ngāpuhi Prior to 1800 – Ngaa Tapuwae Nuku - Migration Origins of Ngaapuhi The aim of this study is to analyse the settlement of Te Tai Tokerau by descent groups from various ancestors of Ngāpuhi and describe the political movements within the iwi, and within the wider pantheon of Māori history. I will describe major features of history throughout a time span from the pre 1800s until our present day of 2007 that have significance for Ngāpuhi. This assignment allows me to take ‘a step back to the future’ thus enabling me to trace the footsteps of my ancestors along with the trials and tribulations they encountered that has shaped our present situation, and there envisage the future of us as a Ngāpuhi people. The western view of the future pervades a lot of our general community thinking about Maori related issues and does not provide a good environment in which to consider the injustices of the past. Two peoples each regarding history in as different way. The future is unknown and only has meaning if you face the past. Because the future is what you cannot see.
With indigenous peoples in various parts of the world when they speak about the future they will pass their hand backward over their shoulder. In the predominant western culture the future is described as being in front of us, that which we are moving towards. In this country we have two cultures which view history in entirely different ways. Amidst the confusion and complexity of Pakehā economic, moral and social principals assailing Māori intellect and lifestyle, impressions of great consequence were political and primarily converged on land. In Tai Tokerau, Māori society was successively and intensively converged on by explorers, whalers, traders, missionaries, and eventually the whole gamut of British sovereignty and colonisation.
Only in the north would the kumara survive the winter in the ground, and only there could it have been propagated until the techniques for it’s survival were evolved, making it’s cultivation possible further south. For climatic reasons alone, the area was probably the earliest settled, and would certainly have been the first choice of migrant Polynesians from the tropical islands of the Pacific. Before embarking on an account of the events which occurred at the Bay of Islands, a description is necessary of the attractions of the area from Whangarei northwards, which for hundreds of years had made it one of the most sought-after and fought-over territory in NZ.
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