Hakaraia

The Waitaha people have always lived beside the water. For hundreds of years, their rohe was the coastal land south of Tauranga. Where did Waitaha people live?

• Beside the ocean.

• Beside the water.

• Beside a mountain.

• Beside an inlet.

But in the early nineteenth century, Waitaha had to flee inland to escape warring tribes. They were given shelter at Lake Rotorua by their Te Arawa kin. Who did the Waitaha have to flee?

• Mad pioneers.

• Bad weather.

• Lake Rotorua.

• Warring tribes.

Although this meant they were still by the water, it was not their home. The people of Waitaha never stopped thinking about their own whenua. And they never stopped hoping that one day they might return. What did the Waitaha never stop hoping?

• One day they might return.

• Their land would be given back.

• They would be given an apology.

• The settlers would all leave.

One miraculous day in 1836, some visitors arrived on the shores of Lake Rotorua. They were from far away to the north. Two of the people were Pākehā – the Reverend Thomas Chapman and his wife, Anne. What does miraculous mean?

• To have the ability to carry water.

• Of the nature of a miracle or having the power to work miracles.

• Of a size in which to make something real.

• To help your imagination imagine something new.

Another of the visitors was a man who looked familiar. His whānau thought they were seeing a ghost. This was Māhika, who had been taken from his iwi twelve years earlier by the same warriors who had seized their land. Who was the ghost people thought they saw?

• Iwi

• Visitors

• Whanau

• Māhika

None of his people ever expected to see Māhika again. But he had survived, learnt to read and write at a mission school in Northland, and eventually converted to Christianity. What did Māhika eventually convert to?

• Hinduism

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Islam

The tīpuna of the Waitaha iwi – the chief Hei and his son Waitaha – arrived in Aotearoa on the waka Te Arawa. As the waka passed the entrance of Tauranga Harbour, Hei claimed the land for his descendants. What entrance did the waka pass?

• The entrance of Rotorua harbour.

• The entrance of Tauranga Harbour.

• The entrance to Auckland harbour.

• The entrance to Te Arawa.

By the nineteenth century, the Waitaha people mainly occupied the land between Tauranga Harbour and the Waiari River, including the area inland up to the Kaimai Ranges. In what century did the Waitaha people occupy land?

• Inland up to the Kaimai Ranges.

• Between Tauranga Harbour and the Waiari River.

• Eighteenth century.

• Nineteenth century

It was a beautiful region with rich soil for crops, many birds in the forests, and many eels in the rivers. Today Te Puke is the main town within the rohe of Waitaha. What was found in the rivers?

• Fish.

• Eels.

• Birds in the forests.

• Rich soil for crops.

By the 1830s, Christian missionaries had begun to travel outside Northland to spread their religion and ideas. Reverend Chapman and his family came to the Rotorua area with the idea of establishing a mission. Why did Christian missionaries travel outside Northland?

• Spread their religion and ideas.

• To find new places to live.

• To find other missionaries.

• To find Rotorua.