Te Tahuanui: Ngati Hikairo Heritage Management Plan  

Mihi 

Nö ngä kauwheke täukiuki te ao e kaha nei tätou ki te whakangungu. Näna te ükaipö, te rohe me öna tikanga i waihanga, näna i whakaräkai. Whoi anö ka mihia. Ko rüruhi, ko koroheke, ko whaea, ko mätua mä koutou e takakawe ana ki te hapahapai i tënei kaupapa me te purutanga i tö täua Hikairotanga, ka mihia katoatia. Nä te whakaarotahi, te mahitahi, me te nohotahi o Ngäti Hikairo i tutuki ai tënei kaupapa. Ka tiakina, ka whakamahia, ka whakanuia ngä wähi tüpuna e Ngäti Hikairo.

Anö nei he huahua maha kua whakatahuangia hai kai mö te iwi, kua tapaina te pukapuka nei ki te ingoa Te Tahuanui. Ko te tihi o Tahuanui he tihi tiketike kei runga o Pirongia. He kurupounamu nö te iwi o Ngäti Hikairo. He maunga körero, he maunga mauri, he pou rohe, he matataua e tiaki nei i te rohe, e kökiri nei i ngä take mana motuhake, ä, e whakapäoho nei i to Ngäti Hikairo tino rangatiratanga. Nä Whakamarurangi näna anö i whakatahua ngä huahua ki Tahuanui kia mana ai te mana whenua o Ngäti Hikairo i te ao köwhatu. Ötia, e whaia ana taua tauira, e whakatahuangia ana nga körero nönamata kia mana ai te mana whenua o Ngäti Hikairo onäianei. Whoi anö kua tapaina te pukapuka nei.

Mauriora ki a tätou katoa.

Te Runanganui o Ngati Hikairo and Te Tini o Kawhia Trust are pleased to announce the completion of Te Tahuanui: Ngati Hikairo Heritage Management Plan.

The plan is part of a larger project that began as an idea of the Resource Management Comittee (RMC) back in 2005. The RMC identified a need to improve ways that we communicate with councils and protect Maori cultural heritage areas within our rohe. Since that time many of our Koroheke and Ruruhi have been interviewed, all the written resources relating to our cultural and historical areas have been found and researched and over 300 sites have been GPS mapped. A database has been developed which will hold this information into the future.

We would like to acknowledge the financial support we have received to complete this project from the New Zealand Lotteries Grants Board and Te Puni Kokiri. Nga mihi nui ki koutou katoa.

We hope that you find Te Tahuanui: Ngati Hikairo Heritage Management Plan an interesting and useful resource for whatever reason that brought you here to find it. You are welcome to download a copy of the Plan; but please respect out copy right requests posted here on this site and in the document.

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