Long ago the Ngāi Tai tribe, came to Maraetai by the tainui canoe about 800 years ago from Polynesians to New Zealand.
Some of the people went to live in the forests in Waitākeres and controlled land as up north as far as the Kaipara, across to Mahurangi and down to Takapuna.
Around 1600 to 1750 the Tāmaki tribes terraced the volcanic cones, building a places called pā. They started lot of gradens. Around 1750, the population grew a lot more and more
Between 1740 and 1750 a tribe called Ngāti Whātua-o-Kaipara moved to the south, invading the isthmus and killing a maori cheif and warrior called Kiwi Tāmaki, he was the cheif of a tribe called Wai-o-Hua. He was killed before capturing his last pā at Māngere.
In 1820 the a chief called Hongi Hika acquired muskets, allowing him to attack the Tāmaki region. The tribe destroyed the Ngāti Pāoa settlements in 1821, and after destoryed Te Kawerau-a-Maki. Apihai Te Kawau, chief of the Ngāti Whātua, took Hongi Hika people into exile.
In 1827 French explorer Dumont D’Urville he visited Maraetai he was surprised to find the people depopulated. They their were groups shelter in the coastal settlements of Āwhitu, Waiuku, Maraetai and Port Waikato. These places attracted traders and missionaries to their areas.
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