Ngāi Tūhoe (), often known simply as Tūhoe, is a Māori "iwi" ("tribe") of New Zealand. It takes its name from an ancestral figure, Tūhoe-pōtiki. "Tūhoe" is a Māori-language word meaning "steep" or "high noon". Tūhoe people also bear the sobriquet "Nga Tamariki o te Kohu" ("the children of the mist"). Tūhoe traditional land is at Te Urewera (Te Urewera National Park) in the eastern North Island, a steep, heavily forested area which includes Lake Waikaremoana. Tūhoe traditionally relied on the forest for their needs. The tribe had its main centres of population in the small mountain valleys of Ahikereru and Ruatahuna, with Maungapohatu, the inner sanctum of the Urewera, as their sacred mountain. The Tūhoe country had a great reputation among the neighbouring tribes as a graveyard for invading forces.