Tipi Tainui Ropiha died in 1978.
Wereta Tainui Pitama was born in 1881.
Tainui, those Iwi descended from the Tainui Waka, are found mainly in the Waikato and Te Rohe Potae (The King Country).
Waikato is the river of the people from the Waikato Tribes of Tainui waka.
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The Maori canoe from the Great Fleet that sailed up the Tamaki Estuary is believed to be the canoe called Tainui. Tainui is considered one of the seven waka (canoes) that journeyed to New Zealand from Hawaiki.
Tainui
It is burried in Kawhia behind Maketu Marae
The Tainui waka was named after an infant who did not survive childbirth. At the burial site of this child, at a place in Hawaiki known then as Maungaroa, a great tree grew; this was the tree that was used to build the ocean canoe.
Aotea, Arawa, Tainui, Kurahaupo, Takitimu, Horouata, Tokomaru and Mataatua