List of iwi
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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