Te Heuheu
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Te Heuheu may refer to any of a number of people from the te Heuheu family which has been the family of chiefs of the Māori Ngati Tuwharetoa
iwi
(tribe) for approximately 200 years. The name is also used for several landmarks in the central North Island
of New Zealand
.
Ngati Tuwharetoa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand. The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua at Matata across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupo.The iwi is identified...
iwi
Iwi
In New Zealand society, iwi form the largest everyday social units in Māori culture. The word iwi means "'peoples' or 'nations'. In "the work of European writers which treat iwi and hapū as parts of a hierarchical structure", it has been used to mean "tribe" , or confederation of tribes,...
(tribe) for approximately 200 years. The name is also used for several landmarks in the central North Island
North Island
The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...
of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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- Te Heuheu Tukino I, first in the line of the te Heuheu chiefs
- Te Heuheu Tukino II, (Mananui) son of Tukino I
- Te Heuheu Tukino III, (Iwakau) brother of Tukino II
- Te Heuheu Tūkino IVTe Heuheu Tukino IVTe Heuheu Tukino IV was paramount chief of the Ngāti Tuwharetoa, a Māori tribe of the central North Island of New Zealand. His birth name was Pataatai but he assumed the name Horonuku - meaning landslide - after the death of his parents in a landslide in 1846...
, (Horonuku or Patātai) son of Tukino II - Te Heuheu Tukino V, (Tūreiti) son of Tukino IV
- Te Heuheu Tukino VI, (Hoani) son of Tukino V
- Sir Hepi te Heuheu, KBE, Hepi te Heuheu Tukino VII, son of Tukino VI
- Sir Tumu te Heuheu, KNZM, Tumu te Heuheu Tukino VIII, son of Tukino VII and current chief
- Georgina te HeuheuGeorgina Te HeuheuGeorgina Manunui te Heuheu QSO is a Māori descent of Tūhoe, Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Ngāti Awa. MP in the New Zealand National Party and a Cabinet Minister in the New Zealand Government.-Early life:...
, a member of Parliament in New Zealand - Te Heuheu, a peak on Mount RuapehuMount RuapehuMount Ruapehu, or just Ruapehu, is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand. It is 23 kilometres northeast of Ohakune and 40 kilometres southwest of the southern shore of Lake Taupo, within Tongariro National Park...
in the Tongariro National Park on the North Island of New Zealand