Ngāti Whātua

The Ngāti Whatua occupation are to Waka Māhuhu -ki -te- rangi associated strain ( iwi ) of Māori in New Zealand. It consists of four hapu ( sub- tribes ): Te Uri -o -Hau, Te Roroa, Te taou and Ngāti Whatua occupation -o- Orakei.

At the time of European settlement of New Zealand, the tribal area was around the Kaipara Harbour and extended south to Tamaki Makaurau at the site of today's Auckland including today Waitakere City. The trunk was migrated in earlier centuries of the Northland Peninsula here.

Rivalries with the Ngapuhi escalated in the early 19th century, when the Ngapuhi were muskets. The Ngapuhi attacked the Ngāti Whatua occupation in 1807 or 1808 at the Battle of Moremonui. This was possibly the first use of firearms in the tribal wars of the Māori. However, the Ngāti Whatua occupation overran the Ngapuhi, while these nachluden their muskets, and achieved a decisive victory. The Ngapuhi took in 1825, led by Hongi Hika revenge and defeated the Ngāti Whatua occupation in the battle of Te Ika a Ranganui.

The tribe wished European settlers into its territory to attract and therefore offered Governor William Hobson in 1840 in country Tamaki Makaurau to. Hobson accepted the offer and moved the capital of the colony here, calling them " Auckland ".

The Ngāti Whatua occupation were known in New Zealand in the 1970s because of a Disputes over land at Bastion Point near the Auckländer suburban Orakei. The 1886 for defense purposes expropriated by the Māori area should be after the end of the military use not returned by the government to its rightful owner, but sold at a profit in real estate companies. After a long peaceful occupation of the country this was violently suppressed by the police and army, later the country had to largely be returned to the tribe.