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Scoop
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Ngā Tohu Toi 2025 Recipients Announced – Join Us To Celebrate Māori Excellence In The Arts
Tauranga, Aotearoa – Ngā Tohu Toi is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its prestigious awards celebrating excellence and leadership in ngā Toi Māori (Māori arts). These awards honour artists, knowledge holders, and innovators whose mahi enriches our communities and strengthens the future of Māori creative expression. This year's recipients will join a distinguished cohort of past award winners, including Ria Hall, Stan Walker, Mabel Wharekawa-Burt, Darcy Nicholas, Joanna Paul, Whirimako Black, Joe Harawira and others. This year, we celebrate the following outstanding recipients: Wi Taepa (Ngāi te Rangi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue) Tuakoi Ohia (Ngāti Hine, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Āti Awa, Te Arawa, Tainui) Justine Murray (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui Ngai Tamarāwaho, Ngai Tukairangi, Ngāti Tapu, Ngāti Kahu) Regan Balzer (Ngāti Ranginui,Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pūkenga, Raukawa, Te Arawa, Apakura) Peter Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi) Sarah Tangitu ( Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Pirirakau, Ngā Tamawhariua) Mauria (Tracey) Ngatoko Rahipere (Ngai te Rangi, Ngati Ranginui) Chloe Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāi te Ahi) Te Karehana Toi aka TEEKS (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui) Julie Paama-Pengelly (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāi Tūwhiwhia, Ngāi Tauaiti and Ngāti Tapu) Whare Thompson (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngā Puhi) Ngā Tohu Toi invites everyone to join us in honouring these incredible individuals at our 2025 Awards Celebration: Thursday 19th June 2025 The Cargo Shed, Tauranga Moana From 5:00pm onwards Enjoy a powerful evening of celebration, live performance, storytelling, and the collective recognition of Māori creative excellence. Tickets are available now at: Tables of six are also available to purchase for you and your roopu. This is a night not to be missed — a moment to stand in support of our artists and the cultural legacy they continue to shape for generations to come.
RNZ News
15-05-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Parliament passes Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill
Members of Ngāti Ranginui outside Parliament after their settlement bill passes its second and third readings. Photo: Pokere Paewai The Government has apologised to Tauranga iwi Ngāti Ranginui for inflicting confiscation and a scorched earth campaign that left the iwi without sufficient land to sustain themselves. The Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement Bill passed its second and third readings in Parliament on Thursday. The Bill included financial and commercial redress of $38 million and the vesting 15 sites of significance with iwi, with two other sites to be jointly managed with other Tauranga iwi. The Crown apologised to the hapū of Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Te Wai, Pirirākau, Ngāti Taka, the Wairoa hapū of Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Pango, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hangarau, Ngāi Tamarāwaho, Ngāi Te Ahi and Ngāti Ruahine. Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Settlement trust chairperson Te Pio Kawe felt 'absolutely ecstatic' once the Bill passed, but tinged with some sadness. "It's both of those emotions - the ecstasy that we've finally got to this point, the sadness that there are multiple hapū representatives our kuia koroua [elders] who never made it this far to see the day, who gave and contributed so much to the effort." He said this was an intergenerational cause, and the next generation of tamariki (children) and mokopuna (grandchildren) would carry on from the platform set for them. Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui Settlement trust chairperson Te Pio Kawe. Photo: Pokere Paewai Ngāti Ranginui's historical Treaty of Waitangi claims related to war and raupatu (confiscation) in Tauranga in the 1860s, but the iwi were also heavily affected by Crown purchasing of certain land, the operation and effects of native land laws, and Māori land legislation and public works taking in the 20th century. Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Paul Goldsmith told MPs that, during the New Zealand Wars in Tauranga and the subsequent bush campaign, the Crown inflicted a scorched earth campaign that devastated the hapū of Ngāti Ranginui . "Of course, no amount of settlement can ever fully compensate for the losses suffered, but it does represent a commitment to establish a partnership that begins to restore the Crown relationship with Ngāti Ranginui, and starts a new journey towards reconciliation and prosperity." The campaign, combined with confiscation and the purchase of other Māori land blocks, left Ngāti Ranginui "without sufficient land for their present and future needs", he said. "As we gather here today for this important day, we also look back on the past and recognise that the Crown severely wronged Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui in the years following the settlement," he said. "The Crown acknowledges its historic breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, including that it was ultimately responsible for the outbreak of war in Tauranga in 1864, in which Crown troops killed members of the hapū, and wounded others in the battle of Pukehinahina and Te Ranga." Kawe said, while the $38 million figure that iwi will receive in commercial redress sounds nice on paper, it does come with a caveat. "We don't actually get $38 million dollars cash, we give it straight back, because we have to buy the properties, so they talk about 15 properties that are coming to us, ae pai (that's great), but we have to pay $38 million dollars to get the bloody things back." With the right people bringing their skills to the table, he was confident the iwi could make good use of it. Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui chairperson Charlie Rahiri said legislation wasn't the end. Photo: Pokere Paewai "We can look at what does prosperity look like, what does economic development look like for Ngā Hapū o Ngāti Ranginui, what role does our marae play, what role does our hapū play, but that's part of the vision that we need to create." Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui chairperson Charlie Rahiri echoed those sentiments, saying the legislation wasn't the end, but just the beginning of a stronger platform for the iwi in Tauranga. "The irony though [is] that legislation brought us here in terms of what was stripped from us and it has to be legislation that brings it back." The iwi felt the effects of the war in Tauranga and the scorched earth campaign all these years later, he said. "The bush campaign, the scorched earth, te weranga is one [battle] that is not well known. Pukehinahina was a battle, Te Ranga was murder, so when we tell those stories, we want to tell it our way, because what we know of our history has been the dominant people's attempts to excuse their actions." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
NZ Herald
15-05-2025
- Politics
- NZ Herald
Decades-long Ngāti Ranginui Treaty of Waitangi claim settled in Parliament
'While no settlement can fully compensate for the Crown's injustices towards Ngāti Ranginui, I sincerely hope this redress package will support Ngāti Ranginui to realise their economic and cultural aspirations for generations to come.' The redress includes an agreed historical account, Crown acknowledgements of its historical breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi and a Crown apology. In 1990, 10 Ngāti Ranginui hapū began presenting their claims, Ngāhapū and Ngāti Ranginui Settlement Trust chairman, Te Pio Kawe, told SunLive. The claimants were Ngāti Te Wai, Pirirākau, Ngāi Te Ahi, Ngāti Taka, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hangarau, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Ruahine, Ngāi Tamarawaho, Ngāti Pango, along with Ngāti Ranginui, he said. 'It has been a huge journey for the 10 hapū,' Kawe said. These groups represented about 30 individual Treaty claims, but they decided to bring all their hearings together collectively, Kawe said. In 2012, Ngāti Ranginui signed the agreement in principle with the Crown, and it took 13 years for the bill to be settled in Parliament. 'A lot of people have participated in this process, and a lot of people haven't made it through to the end.' Kawe said after this bill was settled, there would still be an outstanding settlement around Tauranga Moana Harbour. That settlement was a piece of legislation that provided a framework for all hapū and iwi to contribute to the wellbeing of the harbour. Around 200 tangata whenua gathered in Wellington to hear Goldsmith read the bill. The reading began at 11am, and the group stayed overnight on the Pipitea Marae before being welcomed into Parliament. Kawe said the change would occur in a tiered approach, with some properties returned to hapū for them to manage. Some properties would be for residential, commercial and cultural redress, Kawe said. As part of the settlement bill, the Crown acknowledged it failed to protect Ngāti Ranginui interests in lands they wished to retain. Purchase of land blocks in Te Puna and Katikati were done in breach of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi, according to the bill. It also acknowledged that a scorched-earth policy was inflicted by the Crown on Ngāti Ranginui during the 1867 Te Weranga (bush campaign). The Ngāti Ranginui Claims Settlement included 15 properties in the Western Bay of Plenty and Tauranga regions, covering a total of about 890.73 hectares. Margaret Jackson Wildlife Management Reserve near Bethlehem would share its name with Te Wharepoti. The name of Jess Road Wildlife Management Reserve was changed to Te Wahapū o Te Hopuni Wildlife Management Reserve. These lands were primarily designated as scenic or recreation reserves under the Reserves Act 1977. Several sites are subject to easements, guiding and hunting permits, plant pest control trials or historic grazing arrangements. Te Hopuni is set aside for use as a cultural centre. The properties reflected a mix of cultural, conservation and recreational purposes. Goldsmith said the settlement acknowledged the Crown's breaches of te Tiriti o Waitangi, 'including its responsibility for war and raupatu in Tauranga in the 1860s, the purchase of Te Puna-Katikati blocks soon after, the operation and impact of the native land laws, and the compulsory acquisition of land under later Māori land legislation that left Ngāti Ranginui without sufficient land for their present and future needs'. 'I want to acknowledge the people of Ngāti Ranginui who have travelled to Parliament today to witness this auspicious occasion and those who watched the passing of this bill online from Tauranga.' Ngāti Ranginui is an iwi based in the Tauranga region with a population of approximately 15,000 people.
