Tainui

Tainui was a confederation of Māori iwi in the central North Island, tracing its ancestry to the crew of Hoturoa's canoe, said to have landed at Kāwhia.

According to the Tainui historian Pei Te Hurinui Jones, Tainui people entered Waikato around 1400, bringing kūmara plants. By the end of the 17th century, after the siege of Pōhatu-roa, they had conquered much of the Waikato region.