Ngāi Tūhoe
Māori iwi (tribe) in Aotearoa New Zealand
Ngāi Tūhoe (Māori pronunciation: [ˈŋaːi ˈtʉːhɔɛ]), often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori iwi (tribe) of New Zealand. It takes its name from an ancestral figure, Tūhoe-pōtiki. Tūhoe is a Māori language word meaning 'steep' or 'high noon'. The Tūhoe people also bear the sobriquet Nga Tamariki o te Kohu ('the children of the mist'). Tūhoe traditional land is at Te Urewera (the former Te Urewera National Park) in eastern North Island, a steep, heavily forested area which includes Lake Waikaremoana. Tūhoe traditionally relied on the forest for their needs. The iwi territory is vast and undeveloped. Tūhoe is considered one of the largest landowners in New Zealand. The territory has six main centres of population, including Ruatāhuna, Waikaremoana, Waimana Valley, Ruatoki, and Tāneatua. Maungapōhatu is the inner sanctum of Te Urewera, and is the most sacred of their ancestral mountains.
“Ngāi Tūhoe” enters the record as māori iwi (tribe) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ngāi, Tūhoe and Māori can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7023212. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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