A person of high status in a Maori community, especially an ariki or a rangatira.
he led other Maori chiefs to sign treaties with the British authorities
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His forebears translated the meaning of British government to the Maori chiefs.
Previously the country had flown the United Tribes flag, which was chosen in 1834 to facilitate trade, as well as unify Maori chiefs.
We tend to think of all Maoris as being beneficiaries of billions of taxpayer dollars and land that had previously been purchased from Maori chiefs, being handed back to the tribes.
Waitangi Day marks the anniversary of the treaty of Waitangi, the treaty which signalled the handing over of Kiwi lands from the Maori chiefs to the British crown.
Waitangi Day commemorates the day, back in 1840, when representatives of the British Crown signed New Zealand's founding document with more than 500 Maori chiefs.
Te Whakaminenga (the gathering) was the name applied to Maori chiefs who assembled to sign He Whakaputanga, the 1835 New Zealand Declaration of Independence.
He glanced in, saw the plastic flowers, the two-seater couches, the portrait of a Maori chief looking sideways.
In 1835, a group of northern Maori chiefs signed a Declaration of Independence, establishing self-government.
A block of waterfront land in the Far North traded from Maori chiefs for muskets and gun powder almost two centuries ago has been placed on the market once again.
Aside from stunning native bush you'll also come face to face with Whatonga, an ancient Maori chief immortalised in a 6m-tall sculpture.