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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-41041-4
- Pages
- 221 –258
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-41042-1_7
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter examines the evidence for an extensive marriage alliance among migrants between Waikaremoana and Ruatāhuna areas that was forming about the time of what the Tūhoe call the conquest of the Waikaremoana area in the early 1800s, and summarizes the interconnections of kinship and affinity and the political activities of leaders of this alliance at the time of the investigation by the UDNR commission. By that time five distinct descent groups affiliated with the Ngāti Ruapani hapū of Ngati Kahungunu iwi in control of the Waikaremoana area had developed an elaborate Ruatāhuna-Waikaremoana marriage alliance between migrants holding few rights elsewhere in Te Urewera and probably stigmatized for this reason and their ‘conquest’ by assimilation. It is argued that they had nevertheless garnered political-economic power through this elaborate marriage alliance among themselves and, most importantly, through a double marriage alliance with Te Whenuanui I, the leader of the Te Urewera hapū of the Ruatāhuna area.]
Published: Jul 8, 2020