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During his voyage Kupe named a number of places along the shoreline; other places have since been named after him. Most of these names occur in the vicinity of Cook Strait and the Hokianga Harbour. However, it is said that he also gave the name Te Toka Tapu a Kupe to a group of rocks on the northern side of the entrance to the Manukau Harbour (these are today known as the Ninepin Rocks).
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Another early navigator featured in a number of tribal traditions is the chief Toi- te-huatahi, who sailed from Hawaiki perhaps some time during the twelfth century. It is related that Toi first made landfall in the Tamaki area, but found the land already occupied. Some of his followers then intermarried with the tangata whenua.
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The traditions of the Wai O Hua people suggest that their ancestors, Nga Oho, inhabited the Tamaki and Manukau areas even before Kupe arrived.Te Wai O Hua traditions also relate that (at an unknown date) Nga Oho divided into Nga Iwi, whose land lay between the Waitemata Harbour and Papakura, and Nga Riki, who mostly settled south of Papakura; Te Wai O Hua themselves being a branch of Nga Iwi (see 1575).
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Archaeological evidence of early settlement in the Auckland region is scarce. However, it has been suggested that an artefact discovered at Elletts Mountain (Ihumatao or Maungataketake) may date back to the tenth century, and charcoal from sites at Puhinui to the early eleventh century. It is known more certainly that a site at Manukau South Head was occupied before the end of the thirteenth century; that gardens were being developed on the lower slopes of Wiri Mountain (Matukutururu) and on at least one site in East Tamaki by the fourteenth century; and that there were two or more settlements on Motutapu Island prior to the first major eruption of Rangitoto (ca 1375).
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Maori traditions suggest that at an unknown date but perhaps as early as the tenth century a navigator from Hawaiki named Kupe discovered a vast new land in the South Pacific. Different accounts suggest that Kupe found this land already inhabited, or that he left members of his crew behind to settle it, or that the first permanent settlers came afterwards.
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ca 1300 onwards
According to tradition, a new wave of migration from Hawaiki took place during the fourteenth century. The best known migration canoes which have some association with the Tamaki area are Te Arawa, Aotea, Mataatua, Tokomaru and Tainui (see ca 1350); although as many as 27 canoes are named in various tribal traditions.
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ca 1350
About this time the migration canoe Tainui, captained by Hoturoa, arrived in New Zealand (the date is traditional). After making landfall at Whangaparaoa (west of Cape Runaway) Hoturoa and his crew sailed along the coast to the Hauraki area. They landed briefly at near Wharekawa, then continued into the Waitemata and along the Tamaki River. From there the Tainui was hauled overland to the Manukau Harbour. Some of the crew settled on the shores of the Tamaki and intermarried with the local people, their descendants forming the Ngai Tai, or Ngati Tai, tribe; others intermarried with the Nga Iwi people of the Mangere area. From the Manukau, the Tainui was sailed down the coast to Taranaki. Its voyage ended at Kawhia, where the canoe was buried.
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ca 1350
It was the people of the Tainui canoe who gave the Manukau (or Manuka) Harbour its name. According to one account it was named 'Manukau' because it was the home of birds rather than of people ('manu'='bird'); according to another, 'Manuka', because of the wildness of the surf at the harbour's entrance ('maanukanuka'='anxiety').
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ca 1400 onwards
From the fifteenth century onwards settlements were developed on the hills and volcanic cones of the Auckland isthmus. The first sites occupied included Maungarei (Mt Wellington) and Puketapapa (Mt Roskill). These and other hill-top settlements were occupied at least intermittently over several centuries. They may have been undefended sites at first - the major ditch and palisade fortifications in the region mostly date from the sixteenth century onwards.
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ca 1400 onwards
The first evidence of gardening in the Wiri area dates from about AD 1300. From the mid-fifteenth century onwards more extensive stonefield gardens were developed by local tribes in the vicinity of Matukutururu (Wiri Mt), Matukutureia (McLaughlins Mt), Otuataua, Pukeiti, and Ihumatao or Maungataketake (Elletts Mt); also in the East Tamaki area. These eventually covered several thousand hectares in total. Remnants of the gardens at Otuataua are today preserved as an historical reserve (see also 10 February 2001).
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ca 1450
Around the middle of the fifteenth century the Ngai Tahuhu people from Northland migrated to the Tamaki area and established settlements on Mt Richmond (Te Pa O Tahuhu, or Otahuhu), and perhaps also on the nearby McLennan Hills (Te Apunga o Tainui). Sites at Fisher Road, Hawkins Hill and Hamlins Hill (Matukaroa) nearby may also have been occupied during the fifteenth century.
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ca 1575
Following the death of the paramount chief, Hua Kai Waka, the people living on the eastern shores of the Manukau took the name Te Wai O Hua (sometimes written as Wai-o-hua or Waiohua). Not without vicissitudes, by the early eighteenth century Te Wai O Hua had risen to dominance in the isthmus (see also 1720).
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ca 1600
About this time the chief Maki (Makinui?) of Kawhia migrated northward with his people and lived for a time with the chief Whauwhau and his section of Te Wai O Hua in the vicinity of Manurewa, before treacherously massacring his hosts in order to seize their land.
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ca 1650
About the middle of the seventeenth century the Hauraki tribes of the Marutuahu confederation - Ngati Paoa, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Maru - began to expand from their ancestral home at Puwhenua on the western shore of the Firth of Thames. Ngati Whanaunga spread along the coastline between Orere and Kaiaua; Ngati Maru moved towards the south and east; Ngati Tamatera occupied the Ohinemuri district; Ngati Paoa settled along the Waihou and Piako rivers, but also moved westward (see ca 1675). The Marutuahu tribes intermingled in many places, including Whakatiwai, Wairoa, Maraetai, along the eastern shores of the Tamaki River, and on various islands of the Hauraki Gulf, but at times also fought bitterly amongst themselves.
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ca 1650
About this time, in order to escape tribal warfare, the sisters Te Raukohekohe, Motu-I-Tawhiti and Te Kaweinga, led a migration of their people from Torere-nui-a-Hotu in the Bay of Plenty to the Tamaki area. There they intermarried with their Ngai Tai relations, led by the chief Te Whatatau. Te Wana, the warrior son of Te Raukohekohe and Te Whatatau, who spread the Ngai Tai dominion further in the next generation, established his main pa at Te Oue and Whakakaiwhara.
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ca 1675
About this time, Ngati Maru and other Hauraki tribes attacked and sacked Te Wai O Hua pa at Maungarei, Maungakiekie and Maungawhau, in revenge for the ambush and killing of one of their chiefs.
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ca 1680
Kawharu's depredations included attacks on two Te Wai O Hua pa at Manurewa. One of these pa was saved by the watchfulness of its commander, the other was lost because its chief had gone eel-fishing and fallen asleep. The names Matukutureia ('the watchful bittern') and Matukutururu ('the careless bittern') were accordingly given to the locations, collectively known as Nga Matukurua ('the two bitterns').
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ca 1680
The warrior chieftain, Kawharu, led Ngati Whatua war parties on expeditions against the Kawerau tribe of the Waitakere area and against Te Wai O Hua and Ngai Tai. Among the pa that he attacked were those at Paratutae, on the northern side of the Manukau, and Motukaraka Island.
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ca 1700
About this time, Ngati Te Ata rose to prominence in the southern Manukau, taking their name from their female leader, Te Atairehia, a granddaughter of Te Hua o Kaiwaka, and thus with close links to Te Waio O Hua. Their principal marae was at Te Pae-o-kaiwaka (present-day Waiuku), but they exercised influence both eastward and over much of the Manukau Peninsula.
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ca 1720
By the early eighteenth century the Waiohua confederation under the leadership of the great chief Kiwi Tamaki dominated the Tamaki isthmus and the northern Manukau. Neighbouring peoples, such as Ngai Taahuhu and Te Kawerau, were now allies or constitutent hapu of the confederation. The main pa of Te Wai O Hua were now at Maungakieke (One Tree Hill), Mangere, and Maungataketake (Elletts Mt), but they had perhaps twenty other pa dotted through the region.
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