They should tell us how the various iwi or hapu will be recognised so as to receive their entitlement. |
He was head of a strong family, or hapu, which mustered a considerable number of fighting men, all his near relations. |
The pito or umbilical cord symbolically tied that child to its tribe, its whanau, its hapu, and the land it inherited. |
Their most important form of social organization is the hapu, a sub-tribe or kinship society. |
While Rawiri Waiaua, chief of the Hua division of the Puketapu hapu was happy to sell land to the Pakeha, chief Katatore was not. |
This model does not give fisheries to the Maori hapu and iwi that had them. |