| Many iwi and hapu have been waiting for too long to see their grievances resolved. |
| He was head of a strong family, or hapu, which mustered a considerable number of fighting men, all his near relations. |
| Their most important form of social organization is the hapu, a sub-tribe or kinship society. |
| If the warriors of the hapu had no guns they would soon be all killed by some tribe that had them. |
| They should tell us how the various iwi or hapu will be recognised so as to receive their entitlement. |
| However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican. |
