Just off Te Miro Road you look up and there’s a house with a shed below it. Where the shed stands is where Tawhiao’s parliament house stood.
Maungakawa Story
Hi. We are Room 19, a class of Year 7 students from Cambridge.
We are trying to make a map of stories to help us understand how important Maungakawa is to our local Ngati Haua.
We are trying to make a map of stories to help us understand how important Maungakawa is to our local Ngati Haua.
When we did our artwork we had to find interesting words in the articles we were using. I found Chiefs which I thought was awesome cause it was like a play on words. Tawhiao was a chief from the iwi story and the Chiefs are our rugby team from this area.
Rangimarie
The artwork was cool. We had to keep layering the motifs. We chose a star (for the Kingitanga), a Tui, a T (for Tui, Tawhiao and Treaty) and triangle to represent Maungakawa.
Sophie
Our Wiremu Tamihana NZer of the Year - Tamahere Forum, 13th Nov, 2013
Author Evelyn Stokes, who wrote a biography of the man entitled Wiremu Tamihana, Rangatira, wrote that“his vision is still valid: that of a Maori society in control of its own destiny, under a system of Maori law, working in partnership with Pakeha law, and participating in the benefits of Pakeha settlement.”
An example of Wahi Tapu would be the Pa that stood on Maungakawa a long time ago. Some of our people are still buried up there.
Our teacher said we were going to sort all our research in to categories. We had to try and think about these as we went along because we would have to justify our thoughts.
Tom
The approach we have taken has been to adopt a kaitiaki a rohe approach which sees each of the Ngāti Hauā marae play an active role in the handling of environmental matters within their exclusive rohe. Each marae has elected a kaitiaki a rohe who is responsible for liaising on any environmental issues within their exclusive rohe.
Muna Wharawhara - Operations Manager - Ngati Haua Trust Board
Everytime we found something about Maungakawa we had to decide if it was part of the iwi story, the in between story or the aspiration story. But sometimes we thought it could be part of more than one of these.
Madi
Our teacher gave us a pretty big challenge. She said that we should try and find as many different types of information as possible. Examples of things we might find are; images, videos, maps, quotes, old newspaper articles and even letters.
Benji
Te Iti a Hauā marae (also known as Tauwhare) is located 15 km to the east of Hamilton in Matangi. The primary hapū for this marae are Ngāti Haua, Ngāti Paretekawa and Ngāti Ngutu of the Waikato-Tainui tribal collective.
The whare tipuna is named Hauā. The marae connects ancestrally to the Tainui waka, the maunga Taupiri and the awa Waikato. The marae complex was refurbished in 2009.
Marae:Te Iti o Hauā (Tauwhare)
Whare:Hauaa
Awa:Waikato
Rohe:Tainui-Waikato
Iwi / Rūnanga:Waikato
Hapū:Ngāti Haua, Ngāti Ngutu, Ngāti Paretekawa
Waka:Tainui
Maunga:Taupiri
Raungaiti marae is located on State Highway 27 in Tamihana. The principal hapū that affiliates with this marae is Ngāti Haua.
The wharenui is named Te Oro. The marae connects ancestrally to the waka collective of Tainui and a kohanga reo sits adjacent to the marae.
Marae:Raungaiti
Whare:Te Oro
Rohe:Tainui-Waikato
Iwi / Rūnanga:Waikato
Hapū:Ngāti Haua
Waka:Tainui
Trusts:Trust Waikato
Rukumoana (The Top Pā) marae is located just north of the junction between Tahuroa Road and Morrinsville-Walton Road, 6 km south of Morrinsville itself. Its principal hapū is Ngāti Haua and the wharenui is named Werewere.
The marae was built between 1915 and 1917 and used as a parliament house during the Māori King Movement. It gradually fell into disrepair from the 1920s, but was fully restored in the 1980s.
Marae:Rukumoana (The Top Pā)
Whare:Werewere
Rohe:Tainui-Waikato
Iwi / Rūnanga:Waikato
Hapū:Ngāti Haua
Trusts:Trust Waikato
Kai a te Mata marae is located close to the intersection of Morrinsville-Walton Road and Kereone Road, just 2 km southeast of Morrinsville town centre.
The principal hapū that affiliates with this marae is Ngāti Haua and the wharenui is named Wairere.
Marae:Kai a te Mata
Whare:Wairere
Awa:Waikato
Rohe:Tainui-Waikato
Iwi / Rūnanga:Waikato
Hapū:Ngāti Haua
Trusts:Trust Waikato
We went to the information centre and got some maps to help us work out exactly where the Maungakawa Reserve is compared to Cambridge. We also found where the Ngāti Hauā marae are located.
Our teacher helped us to identify our local iwi. We are going to look at the Ngāti Hauā Treaty Settlement.