For Māori in the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa area, the national commemorations marking the arrival of Captain Cook is an opportunity to tell their own history.
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"These ancestor remains were stolen and sold overseas"
17 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains have been returned to New Zealand from the United States of America and Germany. The toi moko and kōiwi tangata were formally welcomed to Rongomaraeroa Marae at the Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa.
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30 taonga are returned home to Te Waimate Taiamai
Three Ngāpuhi marae from Te Waimate Taiamai have come together to restore and return a 30 piece collection of taonga to the people of Ngāpuhi's garden state. Highlighting a collaborative effort that marae representatives say could be a way forward for Ngāpuhi.
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NewsMāori wāhine business moguls celebrated
Some of the most powerful and influential Māori wāhine in the business industry will be celebrated in this year’s New Year’s Honours List. This year’s recipients include Pania Tyson-Nathan, Maxine Moana-Tuwhainga and Suzanne Louise Ellison.
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Melanesian building restoration supported by Heritage NZ and iwi
Heritage New Zealand has restored a Melanesian Mission building which was once the central hub for local Aucklanders in the 1860s. Local iwi, Ngāti Whātua and Ngāti Pāoa were also present at the event.
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How fresh is our water?
New Zealand's rivers and lakes are under increasing pressure, according to the latest national report from the Ministry for the Environment and Stats New Zealand about the state of freshwater. The report measures the quality of our waterways, water quantity and flows, biodiversity in rivers and lakes, and the cultural health of freshwater.
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Dream to see St Faiths Anglican Church become a Māori Cathedral.
The St Faiths Anglican Church in Rotorua is in line to become a registered New Zealand heritage building, however, vestry member Don Bennett says their ultimate goal is to achieve a New Zealand Māori Cathedral status under the Anglican Church.
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Nine days to complete sculptures at Sulphur Lake Symposium
Seventeen of New Zealand's top local and national sculptors are in Rotorua this week for the Sulphur Lake Sculpture Symposium.
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Mysterious carvings potentially linked to Te Rarawa
Carved pou have been found in a Far North farm shed that could link Te Rarawa to its pre-European past. Te Rarawa Runanga Chairman Haami Piripi says they now have to go through a process to determine the taonga's mysterious past.
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First South Island wāhi tūpuna recognised by Heritage NZ
The Toitu Tauraka Waka is the first place in Te Wai Pounamu to be recognised for its ancestral significance as a wāhi tūpuna under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 on 22 January 2016.
