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...the Waiau River. Ngāti Pāhauwera currently has approximately 6000 registered members. General background The Waitangi Tribunal reported on the claims of Ngāti Pāhauwera in its Mohaka ki Ahuriri and Mohaka River Reports. In 1994 the Māori Land Court appointed eight people to represent Ngāti Pāhauwera under section 30 of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 for the prosecution and settlement of the Ngāti Pāhauwera Treaty claims against the Crown. The Crown and the section 30...
...the Raukawa rohe near Cambridge, Rangiaowhia, and Paterangi, that significant numbers of Raukawa fought as a tribe. The final battle of the Waikato war took place between 31 March and 2 April 1864, at Orakau, near Rangiaowhia. Approximately 250 to 300 Māori, a significant proportion of whom were Raukawa, defended Orakau pā against up to 1,800 Crown troops for three days until the defenders broke out of the pa on 2 April. Some, such as the Raukawa chief Te Paerata were lulled, while others esc...
Phase 1 funding distributed through Te Arawhiti Total $27,331,460 43 Iwi Funding Number of iwi Te Kotahitanga – Maori Music Artists $275,000 Nationwide Ngāti Kahu $440,740 1 Wharekawa Marae Reservation Trust $27,500 1 Manurewa Marae $300,000 1 Ngāti Tamaterā $75,000 1 Te Runanga o Ngāti Porou...
...and effect. Ngāti Toa Rangatira opposed Company surveys in the Wairau. In 1843, an attempt by an armed party of Nelson settlers to arrest Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata resulted in a violent clash and the deaths of twenty-two Europeans and up to nine Māori. A Crown-appointed commissioner investigated the Company’s land claims covering Port Nicholson and Te Tau Ihu. In Port Nicholson the Crown established a process by which the Company could validate its purchases by paying additional money...