Ngāi Tahu deputy kaiwhakahaere Lisa Tumahai is among five emerging Maori business leaders on their way to the United States to talk economic development, trade, investment and community networking with American Indian and Alaskan Native tribes. Lisa says she is looking forward to gaining an insight into American Indian economic development. “The trip creates an…
Ngāi Tahu Forest Estates has bought 22,800 hectares of Crown forest cutting rights on the West Coast.
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Ariana Tikao (Ngāi Tahu), is the curator of an exhibition at the Turnbull Library in Wellington called Borderland: The world of James Cowan. The exhibition explores the life, work and legacy of the writer James Cowan (1870–1943). Cowan grew up on a Waikato farm, on land confiscated from Māori who had fought against the Crown…
Dr Michael Stevens (Ngāi Tahu) of Bluff has returned to the town he grew up in to study its place in history. Michael, a lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago, was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand’s prestigious and highly competitive Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant worth…
A rare account of a Māori soldier’s experience of the First World War will be launched at Ngāti Moko Marae, Taumutu on ANZAC Day, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of WWI. “The Last Maopo,” is the story of Lance Corporal Wiremu Kaihau Maopo, who joined the 2nd Māori Contingent in the First World War….
After more than six years of researching and piecing together family history, Virginia (Ginnie) Mayo (Ngāi Tahu), of Little Akaloa, has produced her book “William ‘The Carpenter’ from Wiltshire.’ Virginia, who is the great-great-granddaughter of William Gilbert and Heni Te Marino, has written to dozens of contacts over the last six years, many of whom…
For the last twenty-five years, over 400 cassette tapes recording the Waitangi Tribunal hearings into the Ngāi Tahu Claim, have been stored in the Ngāi Tahu Archives at Macmillan Brown Library at Canterbury University. As part of the Ngāi Tahu Archives kaupapa to make this historic material available to Ngāi Tahu whānui, academics and researchers,…
Majority shareholder UPC Capital and Managing Director John Anderson have unconditionally sold Waikato Milking Systems NZ Ltd to Tainui Group Holdings, Ngāi Tahu Capital and Pioneer Capital with settlement on 31 March 2014. UPC Capital in conjunction with management financed a management buyout of the company in 2001 and since that time the company has…
This year Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou is hosting the annual ‘Ngāi Tahu Treaty Festival’ at Ōtākou Marae. The Chair for Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, Donna Matahaere-Atariki, says it is a pleasure to welcome the community for the official Ngāi Tahu Waitangi Day commemorations. “It’s a great privilege to welcome dignitaries, whānau and the wider community…
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