Te Ātiawa early migration and named ancestors

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Te Ātiawa early migration and named ancestors

Puketapu ki Paraparaumu: published history and mana whenua

Puketapu ki Paraparaumu Hapū’s public history, published by Te Kāhui Mahi, describes the ancestral and settlement connections that underpin its continuing relationship with Paraparaumu. It identifies Te Uruhi and the Tikotu–Wharemaukū landscape and records the Trust’s establishment in 2021. The published account states the commitment to uphold mana whenua and mana moana. This is the hapū’s account and should be attributed as such.

The Kāpiti Coast District Council heritage account independently describes the early-1830s Te Uruhi pā, flax and food trade with whalers, and subsequent movements and land use. The accounts should be read together, without treating a council summary as a replacement for the hapū’s own voice.

Te Kāhui Mahi — Our Whakapapa · KCDC — Te Uruhi

Iwi history traces early accounts to the Kāhui Mounga Collective and migration from Taranaki and the Central Plateau into Te Ūpoko o te Ika. The iwi page names Te Kahutara, Taikōria and Okoki waka and describes Te Tini-a-Taitāwaro, Te Tini-a-Pananehu, Tamaki and Te Tini-o-Pohokura. It recounts Piopio Te Kairākau and Atakore in an account of peace-making and migration south.

The migrations remembered by Te Ātiawa

Puketapu historical material names Te Whakapeheke in the Tataramoa migration, Te Manutohuroa in the Heke Mairaro of 1828, Tautara in the Tamateuaua migration of 1832 and Te Ura in the Paukena migration of 1834. These are named ancestral threads in the history of the coast, not a single undifferentiated arrival.

The coast after settlement

Te Uruhi and neighbouring waterways became part of a lived landscape of settlement, cultivation and exchange. The Puketapu account should be read beside its own published history and the books on Te Uruhi, Tikotu and Wharemaukū.

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