rangatira

How to use rangatira in a sentence

• This happened many years before I came to the country, and when my rangatira was one of the most famous fighting-men in his tribe.

  Old New Zealand: | 'A Pakeha Maori' [Frederick Edwa [Maning]

• rangatira pakeha—A foreigner who is a gentleman (not a tutua, or nobody, as described above), a rich foreigner.

  Old New Zealand: | 'A Pakeha Maori' [Frederick Edwa [Maning]

• Along this river I wandered for many days, but I found few of the rangatira's descendants.

  The Pacific Triangle | Sydney Greenbie

• Their society had definite ranks, from that of the rangatira, the chief with a long pedigree, to the slave.

  Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Andrew Lang

• In his hand was his broad-axe; with it he must make his rangatira's river-boat.

  The adventures of Kimble Bent | James Cowan