Apanui Waipapa’s children showed their concern by sending their sister Rongomaihuatahi to the eastern Bay of Plenty, to find the man who had killed Kahukuranui. She and her escorts reached Tunapahore, where she met and eventually married Tūrīrangi. During their attack on Tūrīrangi’s pā, Kahukuranui was killed. Kahukuranui recruited a strong battle force and proceeded to Tunapahore to avenge the deaths. The news of their deaths spread along the East Coast and reached Kahukuranui’s people at Tolaga Bay. However, war broke out between Apanui Waipapa and the Ūawa (Tolaga Bay) chief Kahukuranui, ending disastrously with Apanui Waipapa’s death. Later, Tūrīrangi killed several of Kahukuranui’s descendants near Tunapahore. Stories of Apanui Ringamutu’s family Rongomaihuatahi and TūrīrangiĪpanui Waipapa of Ngāti Porou arranged for his daughter Rongomaihuatahi to marry Tūrīrangi, a descendant of Tamatekapua and Ngāriki from Tunapahore. He avenged the death of his grandmother, Kahukuramihiata, and travelled as far as Little Barrier Island to defeat the Ngāti Wai tribe. Tūkākī married Te Rangiwhakapunea and had a number of children, including: Te Ehutu, who had the responsibility to uphold authority over the lands inherited from his father Kaiaio, a peaceful man known for his expertise in cultivating kūmara (sweet potatoes). Tamahae, remembered as the tribe’s greatest warrior, who fought many battles around the East Coast. These are depicted in four tukutuku panels near the corners of the meeting house called Tūkākī, at Te Kaha marae. Many lines of descent converged on Tūkākī from Porourangi, Kahungunu, Toroa and Tamatekapua. Tūkākī: Tūkākī was the son of Apanui Ringamutu and his first wife Kahukuramihiata, of Ngāti Kahungunu. Kiritapu, his fourth wife, also had five children with him. Whaaki’s sister, Te Kohepare, was Apanui’s third wife, and bore him five children. His second wife, Whaaki of Ngāi Tai, was the mother of seven of his children. Later, Apanui won the land between the Mōtū River and Puketapu by conquest.Īpanui Ringamutu had four wives and many children. As a child. Apanui acquired land from both the Ngāti Porou and Ngāriki people. Te Aotākaia, his uncle on his mother’s side, gave him land extending from Pōtikirua to Puketapu. Apanui’s father gave him land from Taumata-ō-Apanui to the Mōtū River. Rongomaihuatahi, Apanui’s mother, was a direct descendant of Porourangi, of Ngāti Porou.
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(He was also known by the Ngāti Awa people as Apanui Te Haua and Apanui Te Kuti.) The tribe was named after him because of his ancestry and prestige. His father was Tūrīrangi, a direct descendant of Tamatekapua of Te Arawa and the Ngāriki people of the Tauira canoe. Whakaari (White Island) continues to be significant to the people.Īpanui Ringamutu: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui is named after the 17th-century ancestor, Apanui Ringamutu.
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The mouth of the Mōtū River is at Maraenui.
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Whanokao Mountain is situated in the Raukūmara Range, south-east of Te Kaha, near the border between Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou tribal territory.