Toi (name)

• Toi-te-huatahi, about whom there are various traditions. In Te Arawa tradition, a chief who never left Hawaiki. In the Ngati Awa tradition, a descendant of the fantail, the original settler of New Zealand. In the discredited 'orthodox' or "Great Fleet" story, a man from Hawaiki who settled at Whakatane after following his grandson Whatonga.
• Toi-te-huatahi II, in the discredited Great Fleet story, a man who settled at Whakatāne after following his grandson Whatonga, much later than Toi-te-huatahi I.
• Toi-kai-rākau, an ancestor of the Tūhoe tribe. In some traditions, this is an alternative name for Toi-te-huatahi.

Footnotes

Literature

• Halbert, R. Horouta, Reed Books, Auckland.
• Simmonds, D.R. The Great New Zealand Myth, Reed Books.