Maori
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- The Ngai Tai tribe, descended from the people of the Tainui canoe, settled in Maraetai. This group lived under forest cover in the Waitakere and controlled land as far North as the Kaipara, across to Mahurangi and down to Takapuna.
- From the early 18th century the Ngati Paoa people edged their way into the Hauraki Golf and as far north as Mahurangi. Between 1740 and 1750 Ngati Whatua-o-Hua moved south, invading the isthmus and killing Kiwi Tamaki, paramount chief of Wai-o-Hua. They then took his last pa at Mangere.
- There followed a period of cautious peace in which the Ngati Paoa's conflict with Ngapuhi tribes in north made the Tamaki Tribe's vulnerable to attack.
- From 1600 to 1750 the Tamaki tribes terraced the volcanic cones, building pa (settlements behind protective palisades). Across the isthmus they developed 2,000 hectares of kumara gardens.
- At the peak of prosperity in 1750, the population numbered tens of thousands. It was pre-European New Zealand's most wealthy and populous area.
- In 1825 Ngapuhi attacked Ngati Whatua. The battle is known as Te Ika-a-ranganui- was fought near Kaiwaka. The Ngati Whatua fought hard but at the end, the invading force won. Apihai Te Kawau, chief of the Ngati Whatua, abandoned the isthmus and took his people into exile.
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