Maori work
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- The Iwi of TāmakiThe Ngāi Tai iwi were the original settlers of the now known Auckland isthmus, They descended from the people of the Tainui Waka and settles Maraetai down through to Howick and Whitford. Other Tainui descendants were the Te-Kawerau-Maki. This group lived under forest cover in the Waitākere. The Ngāti Te Atua tribe was based south of the Manukau Heads on the Harbor. The dominant dower of the Tāmaki isthmus was Wai-O-Hua.
- 1600-1700sFrom 1600 to 1750 The Tāamaki tribes flourished housing tens of thousands of Maori. Across the isthmus dotted pā's and farms, there were almost 2500 hectares of kumara farms, villages dotted the landscape and wellbeing and health boomed This was pre-European New Zeland's most wealthy and populous region.
- Pā's and VillagesPā (settlements protected by palisades and walls) housed and protected Maori and were built terracing extinct volcano rims and cones.
- In 1821 wanting to avenge the Tāmaki tribes, the Ngāpuhi leader Hongi Hika launched a series of attacks on the region with 2000 men and 1000 muskets he storm Tāmaki and killed many.
- The wars killed hundreds and destroyed the Tāmaki tribes. Hongi Hika Slaughtered and enslaved men, women, and children.
- The last battle was at Ngāti Wātua, Known as the battle of Ika-a-Ranganui, it was fought near kaiwakaka and there was terrible bloodshed
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