Research & Resources

WELCOME to the website of the Treaty Resource Centre, He Puna Matauranga o Te Tiriti. It aims to - Help individuals and organisations to apply the Treaty in their lives and work, provide interactive learning experiences about the Treaty of Waitangi, Help you find Treaty educators in your area.

TMD is without question, the largest most up to date Directory ever built by Maori, for Maori and all to access. The most comprehensive listings available on the internet offering both Free Basic Listings and Comprehensive Paid Listings to allow Maori in all sectors to be found in the one portal - The Maori Directory.

This paper discusses tino rangatiratanga which is central to a Maori understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi. It refers to Maori control of all things Maori - Maori sovereignty. Tino rangatiratanga stands in contrast to kawanatanga which Maori have always seen as giving only limited power to the Crown. However history has seen the displacement of tino rangatiratanga by a form of kawanatanga which assumes that the Crown has absolute authority over all people and all matters in this land.

Te Ropu Whakahau was born from a need to provide professional and cultural support to Maori who worked in libraries throughout New Zealand. There was also a need for Maori voices to inform policies and practices relating to the care of Maori material in libraries and archives, and the provision of library and information services generally.

The Ministry of Maori Development Act 1991 established Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry of Maori Development in 1992. Currently, Te Puni Kokiri’s work focuses on providing high quality policy advice to Government and other agencies. Recently it has also begun providing services to assist Maori achieve their development aims.

Te Ohu Kaimoana is a statutory organisation dedicated to future advancement of M?ori interests in the marine environment. Its role is to allocate to mandated iwi organisations fisheries assets held in trust through the 1989 and 1992 M?ori Commercial Fisheries Settlement and provide an advisory service to its iwi constituents.

Te Hiringa i te Mahara aims to enable Maori secondary teachers to become powerful actors in their own lives. THM equips you with the tools to empower yourself to effectively manage and to get the best out of your professional environment.rnrnThis is what Professional Development is all about - and Te Hiringa i te Mahara provides you with the building blocks to manage your professional development.rnrnTo find out more about the THM Professional Development opportunities click on one of the options above right.

This website lets you search and browse all 76 issues of the magazine Te Ao Hou The New World. Te Ao Hou was published from 1952 to 1976 by the Maori Affairs Department in New Zealand Aotearoa. According to its first editorial, Te Ao Hou aimed "to provide interesting and informative reading for Maori homes … like a marae on paper, where all questions of interest to the Maori can be discussed." Te Ao Hou features bilingual content, with articles in both English and te reo Maori.