| However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican. |
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| The pito or umbilical cord symbolically tied that child to its tribe, its whanau, its hapu, and the land it inherited. |
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| He had formed an easy alliance with Rawiri Waiaua, chief of the Hua division of the Puketapu hapu, whom he considered a great friend. |
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| This model does not give fisheries to the Maori hapu and iwi that had them. |
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| While Rawiri Waiaua, chief of the Hua division of the Puketapu hapu was happy to sell land to the Pakeha, chief Katatore was not. |
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| The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea. |
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| They should tell us how the various iwi or hapu will be recognised so as to receive their entitlement. |
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| Many iwi and hapu have been waiting for too long to see their grievances resolved. |
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| Their most important form of social organization is the hapu, a sub-tribe or kinship society. |
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| Working collaboratively with the MOH, DHBs and other agencies such as the Public Health Association are integral to improving and monitoring the outcomes of whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori communities and providers. |
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| For example, for many decades land law did not recognise that an entire hapu owned its land, and land ownership was put in the hands of a few people. |
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| Hapu are grouped together into iwi or tribes. |
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| In the time of Pharoahs lives a young hippopotamus named Hapu. |
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