Northland

Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae and hapu that make up the iwi of Te Rarawa. The Runanga is made up of two representatives for each of the affiliated marae in the rohe of Te Rarawa, and from the affiliated Taurahere roopu that operate from outside of hapu marae takiwa. Currently there are 27 marae affiliated and two taurahere. The traditional rohe of Te Rarawa is described as the area from Hokianga to Maungataniwha, down through Victoria Valley river to Maimaru, across from Awanui Bridge west to Te Oneroa a Tohe (the Ninety Mile Beach) at Hukatere then down to Mitimiti and Hokianga.

Te Runanga A Iwi O Ngapuhi has a simple vision – ‘kia tu tika te whare tapu o Ngapuhi’ - ‘that the sacred house of Ngapuhi stand firm’, to become a body that all Ngapuhi can participate in and be proud of.

Te Aupouri is a small but proud tribe of Aotearoa. As at the 2003 Census, 8200 people recorded themselves as being Te Aupouri or a descendant. Our ancestral land is the place known as the Aupouri Peninsula, at the very tip of Te Ika a Maui (North Island of New Zealand). We are the descendants of some of the earliest Polynesian explorers to this land, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Te Hononga operates as a sub-committee under the umbrella of the Aupouri Maori Trust Board and operates pursuant to Section 20 of the Trust Boards Act.

Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board is a statutory board established under the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955. The functions of the Board are 'to administer its assets in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the general benefit of all its beneficiaries, and, for that purpose the Board may, in its discretion, provide money for the benefit or the advancement in life of any specific beneficiary, or of any class or classes of beneficiaries'.

Te Uri o Hau is a Northland hapu or sub tribe of Ngati Whatua and descends from the ancestor Haumoewaarangi through Hakiputatomuri. The tribe has approximately 6,500 members, with most of its beneficiaries living in either Auckland or close to their ancestral lands in the Northern Kaipara region. Te Uri o Hau people can also be found in Australia, America and across Indonesia.

This site was developed to inform us, and others, about ourselves as Ngati Kuta; what we are doing and what we plan to do. We are all over the world and we need to keep in touch to keep our historical feet on our whanau peice of earth for now and for our future generations. We may not have been born in Te Rawhiti and may not have had much contact but this website is an opportunity for us all to learn, to share and to contribute something to our electronic hapu.

In 1990 a hui-a-Iwi was called to set up a body separate from the Trust Board to be the Iwi authority for Ngati Kahu and receive government funding for the Iwi. This body was to be a runanga and care had to be taken to ensure that it was set up according to traditional Runanga criteria and not government legislative requirements. McCully Matiu played a pivotal role in the setting up of Te Runanga-a-Iwi o Ngati Kahu.

The Hokianga Whanau Hapu Land and Resources Claims Collective was established in July 2002 by Memorandum of Understanding. The aims and objectives of our Claims Collective are; • To support and communicate with registered Treaty of Waitangi Claimants, supporters and representatives who have agreed to work together in the best interests and for the benefit of Hokianga. • To employ experienced researchers to collect evidential information of treaty breaches resulting from Crown actions or omissions and to employ part time researchers/interviewers to collect traditional information through interviews with Kaumatua and Kuia and other knowledgeable members of the whanau, hapu and iwi. • To hold regular claimant and mandate hui with claimants, whanau, hapu and iwi to communicate the progress of research, address cross claims and boundaries. • To meet other claimants to resolve cross claims and negotiate outcomes.

He Korowai Trust Combines the expertise, resources and abilities of a consortium of Maori organisations including Government and Business interests who have collectively improve the quality of life to Whanau within five years. After this period all services will be devolved and delivered from a Marae-based Whanau Centre. It is envisaged there will be no assets.

He Iwi Kotahi Tatou Trust was started in the early 1980s. Initially in response to the growing unemployment problems that had built up to the riot in 1979. Youth issues were a focus in the early years, which led us into developing training programs. In 1995 we decided to change direction as we felt that the training focus had taken over the Trust and we were having increasing difficulty reaching the employment outcomes required of a Tops Funded Training Provider.