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What does hapu mean?

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Noun
  1. A subtribe of an iwi; the basic political unit within Māori society.
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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.

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