Ngāti Kuri

03/10/2025

24/08/2025

🛖🚨NEW PA KAINGA HOUSING PAGE 🚨🛖

“Whakaniko anō ai te whenua tapu, hei whenua ora. He Kāinga Pūmanawa, He Kāinga Pūmau”

Our Pā Kāinga is an iwi-led, whānau-driven housing programme, returning more whanau to our whenua and creating forever homes for our people. We have retired 61 hectares of land for iwi housing and we are building intergenerational kāinga that are mokopuna-centric, uplifted by kaumātua, and seeks to restore our connection to taiao, marae, reo and tikanga.

We have been working away at our programme for months now, and since our last post on here we have come along way from the expression of interest stage, where we have now:

- Held 7 different wānanga with interested whānau
- Started kaumātua builds (with some already lived in!)
- Made huge gains in our infrastructure programme, transforming all four sites across the rohe.

Now, we are ready to start sharing more of this mahi with you. If you are interested in Māori Housing and Pā Kāinga developments, want to know more about how to start, and want some real life project examples, with real life stories..... then follow along with our page below as we continue through this journey together, the whenua, the whare, and the whānau.

Nau mai ki te kāinga! All housing related posts will be on this new page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1E33DULnND/?mibextid=wwXIfre

16/08/2025

Aue te mamae nui! E maringiringi noa nga roimata mo to tatou taonga, he toki mahi o mua ki runga i to tatou poari. E te rangatira, haere koe ki nga tupuna e tatari ana ki a koe. Takina te moka o te pae, kia korara o parirau.

E te whanau whanui, he pānui mo nga whakaritenga na te whānau Karaka ki raro iho nei.

KARAKA, Lillian Grace

Ko te whaea te takere o te waka.
It is with a heavy heart to share the news of mums passing 15/08/2025.

Lillian is currently resting at Te Uri o Hina in Pukepoto.
Nehu to be held on Monday 18th of August 2025.
Service at 10am.
Nau mai haere mai whanau.
Come and celebrate the life of our wahine toa.

She is strength, she is love, she is beauty.
Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tāne. 🕊️🕊️

26/07/2025

He Pānui Tautoko mō te Rāhui

Ngāti Kurī wishes to express our full support for Te Rarawa Kaiwhare and all our whanaunga on the west coast of Ahipara in thier active protection and safeguarding of resources within their rohe.

We also want to acknowledge the intergenerational generosity that this rohe has extended for countless tangi, hui, and marae events for communities across the motu. We are greatful and have not forgotten this. Ka nui te mihi, ka nui te aroha!

It is only right that we honour and uphold the rāhui that has been placed by them in the best interest of everyone especially thier moana and taonga. We ask all our own whānau of Ngati Kuri to support and respect their wishes for a “no take” approach until further notice, to allow time for the natural restoration and regeneration of these precious taonga. Paua is the focus at present to protect among many other taonga. We will take advice and guidance from them on this.

As this weekend unfolds and moving forward, we ask those entering our rohe to take a measured, respectful approach. Like Ahipara, we too are experiencing high levels of take and a sense of entitlement that nature can no longer sustain. We are out of balance, and it is showing. We are signalling that change is inevitable whanau however we must do right by taiao. There will be times when we will have to find solutions together and make hard and uncomfortable choices as we move into times where continued pressure and numbers of people and catches increase in our rohe.

This is a time for unity, for kaitiakitanga, and for strengthening our collective responsibility to care for the environment and uphold our tikanga.
In our rohe:
-Please only take what you need.
-If you are using a permit, only those issued by Ngāti Kurī-nominated persons will be accepted.
- A reminder that harvesting limits have been set and agreed upon by our marae.

Finally, we want to thank our whānau who have been active in patrols and upholding kaitiakitanga. Your mahi is deeply appreciated.

Ngā mihi nui,
Ngāti Kurī

17/06/2025

Morena whanau if you are around Awanui later this afternoon please come and share in the Launch of our latest whanau led research kaupapa. Nga mihi 😊

02/04/2025

He pānui ki raro iho nei. For immediate release.

12/03/2025

Te Haumihi Taiao Team in Ōtautahi continuing 4th Gen’s Te Au Ahi Tūroa kaupapa ☄️

24/12/2024

04/12/2024

Kia ora whanau

UPDATE ON AGM
Due to Tangi we have moved the AGM to Houhora Fishing Club.

10am Start this Saturday.

Nga Mihi

30/11/2024

There is an error in the mail out of our Annual Report from Ngati Kuri Trust Board.

The AGM will be at Waiora Marae on Saturday 7th of December at 10.00 am.

Thats this Saturday Whanau at Waiora 😍

Nga mihi

02/10/2024

🌊Te Mana o Rangitāhua Update🌊

Our Te Mana o Rangitāhua research teams have completed three sucessful voyages to the islands and Rangitāhua waters over the last two months. Our first voyage covered off planktons, extracting data sets and monitoring of tohoraha. Our mana whenua team focusssd on reconnecting and taonga monitoring of plants, manu, landcrabs and more tohoraha. We had place based wananga, a cultural visit and assessment on our Pou Whenua along with clearing tracks for safety.

Professional development over the past few years has resulted in our own whanau becoming qualified divers to work alongside science leads for the first time. While out there our dive team collected and reset our loggers for data to help map changes to water temperatures and monitor sites. Fish counts, sharks, seaweeds, plankton and corals collections and data.

All our research will help to build our Knowledge Portal for Rangitāhua, Kete Wananga for kura, new Directional Plan and many other Kaupapa Maori research outcomes that will further support the care and protection of Rangitāhua and ensure our learnings and matauranga built around Rangitahua are accessible to all our whanau.

We would like to thank our partners Auckland Museum, Niwa, Manaaki Whenua, Auckland University and other research friends. Our whanau that have participated and contributed to the efforts.

Lastly and most importantly we want to thank INKFISH who have supported us since the beginning of the project to now, we are so grateful for the relationship and support over the past four years for our research and we look forward to sharing more.

Ko Rangitāhua, he kainga motuhake,
He taonga tuku iho, he Tupuna 🎶

Watch this space🌊🌊🌊🌊
Website and new social media sites to be released soon.

Nga mihi
Te Mana o Rangitāhua Research teams
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊