Meaning of hapu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of hapu.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A subtribe of an iwi or Maori tribe; the basic political unit within Māori society; a subtribe or extended family.
   New-Zealand

Examples

““I don't know whose family it belongs in. I made enquiries round all my relations, and most Ngai Tahu hapu.””

“Sometimes such migrations led nascent hapū to districts well away from those of the tribe's previous habitation.”

“In political terms Māori also organised for war in hapu, groups subordinate to chiefs, fighting as units.”

“There are three hapūs interested in this land.”

“Over the hills is a town called Porangahau, we had a friendly rivalry, which still goes on, between the two hapūs, and Waipawa on the other end.”

“No doubt the attitude taken to signing by other, particularly neighbouring or powerful, hapū would have been vitally relevant – and the effects of those hapūs’ future relationship with Britain vis-à-vis that of their own hapū.”

“But the names of the mere refer to two famous Tainui ancestors, Kauwhata the father and Wehi Wehi his son, who were the eponymous ancestors of two hapū based on the west side of Maungatautari. Both hapū had suffered grievously from the operations of the Native Land Court and had travelled to Rotorua with the mere to have the Prince initiate investigations of their land loss.”

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