History of Hamilton - Wiremu

History of Hamilton - Wiremu (historian)

Kirikiriroa pa - hill at garden place. Kirikiriroa means long gravel stretch/soil that is suitable for growing kumara.

Burial ground where grey street now is.

Te Rapa is actually over by the hospital - the surveyors got the mapping wrong. Boundaries were from temple view to Te Rapa dairy factory (now).

GATEWAY
Armed settlers - written by a hamilton lawyer. Information from Newspaper accounts - this was incorrect information. The carver for our school gateway followed this story.

Jubilee bush - 5 cross roads - the forest in 5 cross roads is a small section of the Kahikitia forest - main source of food is native pigeons.

Rupoko roro - fresh water fish that no longer exists.

MIROPIKO PA
The story of the po - was going to be shut down by the hamilton city council due to a digger fallen down into a hole. When the digger dug into the ground at Miropiko pa they hit a wooden (end) of an old po. They did not know it was there however, this is where they decided to put the new po (85 men to carry a po). They do not know what told them to put it there but some believe the superstitious stories that previous Maori guided them.
Ngati Hanui - lived on Miropiko pa - 8-9 sub hapus lived along the river.

HARVEST FESTIVAL IDEAS
Look into Maori fruit and research where we can find it? Sketching/infographic? What birds eat this plant or what connection they may have.
Whakatupu Kai (Growing food)
Research different types of kumara (Maori names) - the different ways of cooking them. Maori traditions or information about the area (Hamilton is named after - kirikiriroa means long gravel stretch/soil that is suitable for growing kumara.

Taniwha - This is how we can interpret the environment. For example, if you see an unsettled piece of water where eels are swarming etc - we could interpret this a taniwha chasing them down the river. (Kids could tell their own story of the taniwha chasing somthing down the river, or in a way of disturbing or influencing the environment).

Duck Island - Mataumoeawa was a chief and great athlete who escaped from a war party and lept/swung on a vine accross the waikato river and landed on duck island (shaped like a foot/landing of Mataumoewa) - Procedural writing about what Mataumoeawa about his journey to duck island.