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  • ...eigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adopted]]. [[Category: Nationality or Citizenship]]
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • Griffis was born to a white father, a famous scout, and a mother who was half Osage (there is s ...assified as a white captive and consequently separated from his stepmother to be fostered by a white family of ranchers. He soon escaped, however, and em
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:54, 27 February 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:31, 28 February 2018
  • ...embers of the families are generally recognized as having been [[adopted]] or fostered. (The abnormally common death dates 1848 and 1849 are because of a ..., Grace Kamaiku and her second husband, Dr. Thomas Charles Byde Rooke. She married King Kamehameha IV.
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 05:38, 1 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,493 words) - 04:20, 3 March 2018
  • ...ora, 1861). [[Adopted]] into the dynasty by Pomare II, king of Tahiti, and married Pomare's daughter 'Aimata. ...of King Pomare IV and [[adopted]] by Tapoa II, king of Bora Bora from 1860 to 1873.
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:20, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:23, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...eigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adopted]]. [[Category: Nationality or Citizenship]]
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:37, 26 February 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:41, 26 February 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:44, 26 February 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 06:51, 27 February 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 05:24, 1 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:24, 3 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 20:00, 3 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 00:42, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...rish-Maori) and Herbert Williams (Welsh), but soon afterwards he was given to his mother's sister and her husband as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai] ...ion which argued that the only way for Maori to survive and "progress" was to [[adopt]] as far as possible a European way of life, while retaining the mo
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  • ...'s ward, and was educated by him in St. Louis. When he grew up he returned to the frontier life, but in 1823 he met Prince Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, ...ornia]] Gold Rush, but was unsuccessful in prospecting and died on his way to new gold fields in [[Montana]].
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  • ...of Latter-day Saints]] and in 1894 his grandparents went to Salt Lake City to do genealogical recording in the Temple, taking many [[Extended Family|exte ...in [[New Zealand]] rectified their status in the Church and they returned to Salt Lake City.
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  • ...nt Te Whakatohea families, the sixth of their seven children. He was given to chief Paora Kingi Maraenui as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]] and rai ...he chief died Delamere was raised by other relatives. In 1905 he left home to become an agricultural worker, boat builder and coastal shipping trader. He
    2 KB (339 words) - 20:22, 3 March 2018
  • ...nd in 1988 joined the Waitangi Tribunal, which mostly hears cases relating to Maori land and civil rights. He was then appointed head of the Iwi Transiti [[Category: Customary or Traditional Adoption, Informal and Extra-Legal Care]]
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  • ...om saw his birth family. When Harirota died in the mid-90s he was returned to his birth family. ...ne in the [[New Zealand]] Department of Health in 1927. He was posted back to the Cook Islands in 1931 and stayed there for 14 years as chief medical off
    3 KB (395 words) - 06:21, 27 February 2018
  • ...of Tamati Pewhairangi of Tokomaru Bay, where she stayed until she was sent to a boarding school for Maori girls at the age of 14. ...also a widow, but he died after only a year, leaving her with a baby son. To support her family she now became a canning factory worker and farm laborer
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  • Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot a When he was 12 he left home to join a wild west show. He attended the US Bureau of Indian Affairs school a
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  • ...So baby Eruera was born in a makeshift thatched hut and immediately given to an aunt and uncle as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]]. They were a poo ...t]] of traditional practices which would slow Maori development, which led to him being given the epithet He Tangata Wawahi Taha (A Destroyer of Calabash
    2 KB (331 words) - 07:08, 12 October 2022
  • ...d; the version which follows is based on a recent biography which attempts to get at the truth from both the white and Maori sides. ...ttle of te Ngutu o te Manu in September 1868, a party of whites, intending to massacre a group of Maori adherents of the Pai Marire religion was ambushed
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:21, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,449 words) - 04:26, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:29, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,499 words) - 05:04, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 05:15, 4 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 02:58, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:04, 5 March 2018
  • ...werful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...custom, to avoid a disputed succession to the throne, a ruler with no born-to heir could [[adopt]] a male of any age from another branch of the ruling fa
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