Venue:
Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street Wellington
Te Taumata Whakapūmau i te Mauri o Wai 262 hosted the Tiaki Taonga Symposium ki Pōneke in August 2024. It was as an opportunity to share relevant insights with those interested in what is shaping Tiaki Taonga; to draw together some of the threads we know will be crucial to its implementation on the part of Kāwanatanga; and, moreover, to galvanize the place of mana motuhake and kotahitanga in the resolution of Wai 262 through Tiaki Taonga.
Programme
Pōwhiri
MC’s welcome
Kaapua Smith
Atawhai Tibble
Te Horopaki mō Tiaki Taonga
Context
Setting the scene
Kura Moeahu
Kotahitanga in Tiaki Taonga.
“What is Tiaki Taonga”?
Haami Piripi
Leo Watson
Lynell Tuffery-Huria
Ngā Raru ki Uta, Ngā Raru ki Tai mō Tiaki Taonga
The Minor & Major Problems to Overcome
Raraunga Reo o ngā Ringatoi Māori
Voices of 100 Māori Creatives
Aroha Te Pareake Mead
Pena Makoare
He Puna o Wai-rua-ono-rua
Kiri Toki
Tasha Hohaia
Rāniera Te Whata
Ihapera Paniora
Wiremu Rikihana
Neuton Lambert
Jonaan McLeod
He Tauira mō Tiaki Taonga
Our Exemplaries
Mō te Taiao Panel
Tina Porou
Sheridan Waitai
International Trade Panel
Maui Solomon
Tina Wilson
Rachael Taulelei
Te Reo me ōna Tikanga Panel
Dr Ruakere Hond
Piripi Winiata
Te Uranga Lee-Belk
Keynote speaker
Trevor Moeke
Māori Economy Panel
Wi Pere Mita
Manu Caddie
Laine Fisher
Ngā Taiohi o Wai 262 (Tai 262)
Justice Hetaraka
Hine Waitai-Dye
Ngaa Raauira
Puumanawhiti
Pene Webber
Teone McGregor
Marewa Nathan
Pō whakangahau with Rob Ruha
Doors Open
An evening at Te Papa to continue the kōrero, whanaungatanga and recognise the commitment many have made to this kaupapa since the claim was lodged in 1991.
Ngā kaiwhakataki
Atawhai Tibble
Nō Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui, Tūwharetoa, Whanganui, Raukawa ki te Tonga.
Atawhai Tibble is an experienced expert in the economics of Māori well-being and the value of Māori language and culture. He is of Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui, Tuwharetoa, Whanganui, and Raukawa ki te Tonga descent. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Atawhai is a strategist, a director, advisor, and builder of Māori capability, with interests spanning various aspects of Māori economic, cultural, and social development. Fluent in te reo Māori, he also has expertise in tikanga Māori and brings kaupapa into shared spaces. Currently, Atawhai is the Kaihautu at Barnados.
Kaapua Smith
Nō Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tahu
With a career spanning more than 17 years across government and corporate sectors, Kaapua has held influential roles such as Political Advisor and Press Secretary for the Minister of Māori Affairs and Press Secretary for the Minister for Whānau Ora, as well as roles at Te Puni Kokiri and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
“Our mātauranga is powerful and transformative. The challenge for our whānau, hapū and iwi is that we are in a process of simultaneously recovering, re-learning, restoring while also protecting it and growing our mātauranga and our practice. That’s hard, so the opportunity to wānanga and share our stories is important.”
Ngā kaikōrero
Kura Moeahu
Nō Ngā Ruahine, Te Āti Awa, Taranaki –Tuturu, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Toa.
Kura is a true orator of his people and is steeped in ancient karakia, whakapapa, and kōrero tuku iho. He and his wife Alishia are a formidable couple, often seen leading many functions throughout Wellington, at Parliament, and at local, regional, national, and international events.
We are proud to have Kura provide his expertise for this WAI262 Tiaki Taonga Hui ki Taranaki.
Trevor Moeke
Nō Ngāti Porou Ngāti Awa Ngāti Kahungunu
Trevor has worked extensively to promote Māori and indigenous development in governance, operation, and policy-making. His experience extends across the public service, private sector and Iwi Māori organisations.
Currently Poutiaki – Director Te Ao Māori Strategy and Performance at Treasury New Zealand, on building Māori capability and leading Crown Māori engagement, relationships and tax trade investment, the Māori Economy, regional development and policy.
He actively supports Crown-Māori partnerships and collaborations in tackling “BIG” challenges and building prosperity. He also serves as Chair of the Ngāti Kahungunu Assets Holding Company Group.
Setting the scene
Haami Piripi
He uri nō te iwi o Te Rarawa.
Haami currently holds positions of governance in the sectors of the Māori Spectrum Commission, Mānuka Charitable Trust, Wai 262 Taumata Whakapūmau, Te Papa Tongarewa repatriation of human remains, Chair of the Kuaka Trust, Deputy Chair of the Kaitaia Women’s Refugee and various other advisory committees. Between 2007 – 2023 Haami was Chairperson of Te Rūnanga o Te Rarawa. He was Lead Negotiator on behalf of Te Rarawa. Haami is an expert on Te Tiriti o Waitangi issues and has been involved with a number of initiatives relating to the Treaty of Waitangi as it applies to the New Zealand public sector.He was a member of the working group on the Treaty Principles for Crown action completed in 1989, he has worked almost continuously in the New Zealand public service for nearly thirty years, in a variety of roles and responsibilities.
Leo Watson
Leo is a legal practitioner with over 28 years’ experience in Indigenous Law including Treaty of Waitangi claims, Māori land, compulsory acquisition and public works, administrative law, fisheries, traditional knowledge and Intellectual property, employment and environmental law.
Lynell Tuffery-Huria
Nō Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahinerangi, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi.
Trevor has worked extensively to promote Māori and indigenous development in governance, operation, and policy-making. His experience extends across the public service, private sector and Iwi Māori organisations.
Currently Poutiaki – Director Te Ao Māori Strategy and Performance at Treasury New Zealand, on building Māori capability and leading Crown Māori engagement, relationships and tax trade investment, the Māori Economy, regional development and policy.
He actively supports Crown-Māori partnerships and collaborations in tackling “BIG” challenges and building prosperity. He also serves as Chair of the Ngāti Kahungunu Assets Holding Company Group.
Raraunga Reo o ngā Ringatoi Māori
Aroha Mead
Nō Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tuhourangi and Ngāi Tūhoe.
Aroha is a political scientist (international relations) specialsing on the contribution of indigenous peoples to national, regional and global policy and law.
She is a research director specialising in mātauranga Māori/indigenous knowledge, and indigenous cultural and intellectual property Issues. Aroha has worked across sectors, including public policy, academia, journalism, Iwi/Māori organisations, as well as national and international NGOs.
Pena Makoare
Nō Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu, Ngāti Whatua ngā iwi. Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Waiariki, Te Kaitutae ngā hapū.
Pena was traditionally taught as a wood carver with the privilege of tuition from Hemi Edwards (Mei) and Pakaariki Harrison.
He is a practising artist and designer. His work is a reflection of his whakapapa, environments and the importance he places in whanaungatanga between people, heritage, places and significant objects.
He Puna o Wai-rua-ono-rua
Rāniera Te Whata
Nō Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Pōrou, Te Whānau-a-Apanui.
Raaniera Te Whata grew up in the small marae community of Tautoro, south of Kaikohe in Te Tai Tokerau. He is an independent researcher, affiliated with the University of Otago’s Centre for Sustainability and Takarangi Research. He works closely as a technician in cultural and environmental services to the public and private sector and with his hapū in Te Taitokerau and others in Te Tairāwhiti.
Kiri Toki
Nō Ngāti Rehua, Ngāpuhi.
Kiri carries an extensive legacy of legal work in intellectual property rights for over a decade, supporting indigenous peoples through the World Intellectual Property Organisation. She will provide a summary of the Wai 262 claim that sought the protection, conservation, propagation, sale, dispersal, utilisation, and restriction on the use of and transmission of the knowledge of New Zealand Indigenous Flora and Fauna to ensure te tino rangatiratanga o ngā taonga Māori me te mātauranga Māori. Some background will be shared on the legacy of the women who lodged the claim and proposed solutions and legislative change to protect the intellectual property rights of indigenous people in Aotearoa.
Tasha Hohaia
Nō Ngāpuhi.
Tasha has worked across a number of hapū and Iwi developments and has served in national Māori movements including the Office of The Kiingitanga, The Māori Party and National Iwi Chairs Forum Freshwater Rights and Interests for Māori. In 2018 she was asked to attend the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and is committed to unlocking economic opportunities in Horticulture and Aquaculture for Māori through the Iwi, community and commercial boards she serves, including Whaingaroa Fisheries Ltd. She will share on the Wai 262 claim opportunity for Māori from whānau business to hapū and Iwi in guarding against misappropriate use of mātauranga and reclaiming and protecting an economy through digital tools in the midst of open sources and the AI era.
Ihapera Paniora
No Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa, Ngāti Wai, Ngāpuhi.
Pera forms part of the Puna of legal technicians who are all alumni of Te Rakau Ture – The Māori Law Students Association of Waipapa Taumata Rau [“puna” is hopefully expanded on in a broad overview of what the Puna does?]. Pera is a strong advocate for Māori rights and interests utilising her skills as Māori Ward Councillor in the Kaipara and supporting her iwi of Ngāti Whātua. Pera is to committed to exploring practical solutions that can contribute to law and policy reform as well as developing resources our whanau, hāpu, marae and iwi can utilise now to provide some levels of protection.
Neuton Lambert
No Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, and Ngāti Ruapani.
Neuton was appointed to ACART in August of 2023. Neuton is a Solicitor at a general law practice in the Auckland CBD, and graduated from law school at the University of Auckland in 2013. He began his legal career as a Barrister, practicing in crime, civil, and the Waitangi Tribunal jurisdictions.
Neuton has extensive experience across a diverse range of legal disputes and has advised hapū, iwi, and whānau on Treaty of Waitangi issues and general civil matters, as well as Māori land trusts and incorporations. Neuton has a particular interest in tikanga approaches as a forum for dispute resolution.
Jonaan McLeod
Nō Te Whakatohea & Ngapuhi.
Jonaan is an admitted barrister and solicitor in NZ, working for Papakura Marae in Tamaki Makaurau. She is passionate about community development, oranga whanau, and systems change that directly benefit people. Jonaan has worked in Maori outcomes across the tertiary, public and community sectors, advocating for system shifts and lifts that empower whanau to thrive – oranga whanau.
Wiremu Rikihana
Nō Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngaati Whanaunga, me Ngāti Pūkenga ki Waiau.
Wiremu was born and raised in Matapihi, Tauranga. His professional background is in law, with a large focus of his career being criminal defence, public law and policy, and the intersection of te Tiriti o Waitangi with these areas of law. He has worked at the Waitangi Tribunal as the registrar for the Wai 1040 Te Paparahi o Te Raki Northland Inquiry. His most recent mahi was at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care as part of the Māori Investigation, and he was heavily involved in briefing, drafting and leading survivor evidence, and drafting the final report Whanaketia. He is passionate about using his legal skills to support whānau, hapū, and iwi.
Mō te Taiao
Sheridan Waitai
Nō Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Tainui.
Sheridan has significant experience in legislation and the policy environment in relation to indigenous issues, she has contributed to environmental, social, education and health initiatives. She has been instrumental in the continuation of the Wai 262 claim for Ngāti Kuri. Her passion is to build up and grow the future generation of Ngāti Kuri. She coordinates a range of activities to bring our people home to help with Biological audits on our land that include our schools, whanau and hapū working together to reconnect with our natural world and taonga. She has led Ngāti Kuri’s connections and work across their rohe including their Islands. She manages and coordinates a range of relationships and partnerships, to achieve shared prosperity, community resilience and mana motuhake for whānau, hapū and iwi.
Tina Porou
Nō Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngai Tāmanuhiri, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka.
Tina founded Poipoia, a kaupapa Māori company committed to providing environmental services to iwi, hapu, the public and private sector. Tina is a self-identified “raging Hapu-ist” and has spent her career advocating for Taiao and its tangata whenua.
Tina works largely in the intersection of indigenous knowledge and contemporary environmental challenges. She advocates for the importance of traditional knowledge and practices leading modern science to create sustainable solutions that honor the legacy of our tipuna while addressing the needs of future generations. She has worked in a range of fields including freshwater, geothermal taonga, climate change matters and within the Maori economy.
International Trade
Maui Solomon
Moriori & Ngāi Tahu.
Maui is a lawyer with 35 years legal experience specializing in Treaty law, commercial law, resource management, cultural and intellectual property and Treaty/Indigenous Peoples Rights. He has been a key legal and political advocate for the recognition of the customary rights and identity of Moriori and was CEO for Hokotehi Moriori Trust for 12 years. He was senior counsel for three iwi from Te Tai Tokerau in the Wai 262 claim and is a former member of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission.
Maui is currently a Pukenga for Ngā Toki Whakarururanga which seeks to ensure that Te Tiriti rights and responsibilities of Maori are reflected in Free Trade Agreements entered into by the Crown. Maui is also one of three Indigenous Representatives for Aotearoa on the Partnership Council for the IPETCA which is an international partnership between Indigenous Peoples and Government reps within APEC countries whose mission is to “indigenise” international trade and ensure more effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in trade and policy.’
Tina Wilson
Nō Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Raukawa, Muaupoko, Rangitane ki te Wairau, Ngāti Rarua Atiawa, Ngāi Tahu.
Tina is the Director of Trade (Trade Commissioner) for New Zealand based in Taiwan and member of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) Greater China Leadership team. Her role is to lead NZTE’s Taipei based team and key sectors across the region to help companies grow and succeed internationally. Tina is the first Māori to hold a NZ leadership post in Taiwan. Taiwan and Aotearoa NZ Free Trade Agreement is the first to include an indigenous chapter. She is committed to upholding Mana Māori in all that she does. Her skillsets see her widely called upon to tautoko significant trade and investment delegations across wider Asia (Māori & Ministerial). She is the recent recipient of Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples’ 30th Anniversary Indigenous Day honours for her contribution towards promoting Indigenous exchanges and bilateral trade.
Rachael Taulelei
Nō Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Rārua.
Rachel is a prominent business leader and a strong advocate for the Māori economy, values-based business models.
Her commitment to kaitiakitanga has been evident throughout her career, from Yellow Brick Road, to her time as CEO of Māori-owned food and beverage company Kono, and now in her current role as co-founder of business design and brand strategy firm, Oho.
Rachel was a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council from 2018-2020 and in 2019, was appointed to represent New Zealand on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC). She was the ABAC chairperson for New Zealand for APEC in 2021.
Te Reo me ōna Tikanga
Dr Ruakere Hond
Nō Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui
For over 30 years, Ruakere has focused on Māori language immersion and community-based reo development, rebuilding Māori speaker communities. He has enhanced immersion learning with Te Ataarangi and revitalized regional languages through Te Reo o Taranaki and Kura Whakarauora. His influence extends to New Zealand’s language revitalization strategy, shaped during his tenure with Te Taura Whiri and Te Mātāwai. Ruakere is also active in Parihaka, involved in research, health organizations, and serves on the Waitangi Tribunal.
Te uranga Lee-Belk
Te Uranga (Te Tai Tokerau, Te Puku o te Ika, Te Kāhui Mounga) is an advocate for revitalisation of language and custom. She has a background in law, public policy and strategy relating to Māori. She is a graduate of Te Panekiretanga and holds a Master of Laws with Honours. She is chair of her local kōhanga, a kaiako for various kura reo and revitalisation initiatives across the country including Te Pōkaitara (Institute of Excellence in Language and Custom) in her tribe of residence, Ngāti Kahungunu.
Piripi Winiata
Nō Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu.
Piripi comes from a legal background, with experience as a litigator and advocate. He is deeply passionate about te reo Māori, tikanga Māori, and indigenous self-determination. As a director of Kawea, Piripi is involved in complex legal and policy projects with impacts on Māori rights and interests. He is a licensed translator and graduate of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo; and, alongside Dr Jeremy Tātere MacLeod and Te Uranga Winiata, established Te Pōkaitara, to carry on the legacy of Te Panekiretanga in Ngāti Kahungunu.
Māori Economy
Manu Caddie
Nō Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Hauā, Waitaha-a-Hei.
Manu is an entrepreneur and activist focused on integrating the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature with biotechnology research and commercialisation. Manu’s work with iwi, hapū, marae and Māori landowners around the country focuses on utilising taonga species in pharmaceuticals, ingredients development and commercial pathways for IP derived from Indigenous organisms. Earlier this year he played a small role in finalising the global treaty governing use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in patents. Manu recently published a discussion document outlining the problems with the Crown regulation of taonga classified as prohibited plants and controlled drugs, one of his companies Matawai Bio is using Artificial Intelligence to discover potential benefits of compounds found in taonga, and next month Hikurangi Bioactives is launching a kānuka oil product that has been clinically-proven to treat eczema better than steroid-based products.
Wi Pere Mita
Nō Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Mahaki / Te Whānau a Kai, Waikato/Tainui.
Wi Pere is a lawyer, mediator and consultant with over 10 years’ experience in dispute resolution, governance and law. He holds a number of directorships and governance roles in the commercial, not-for-profit and private sectors. Wi Pere has practice experience in intellectual property, media, broadcasting & entertainment law and Māori legal issues.
He is the operations manager for Te Matatini and will speak on the commercial opportunities that exist nationally and internationally in relation to Haka Aotearoa Ltd.
Laine Fisher
No Kāi Tahu, Moriori.
Laine is a Policy Manager at Te Puni Kōkiri overseeing the government’s work on the regulatory recognition of mātauranga Māori as a taonga and cultural and intellectual property. His team also coordinates the cross-government work programme on mātauranga Māori – Te Pae Tawhiti. He has a background in regulatory design and stewardship, working in a number of policy shops across government.
Ngā Taiohi o Wai 262 (Tai 262)
Hine Waitai-Dye
Ko Ngāti Kuri te iwi.
Hine is the first wahine from Muriwhenua iwi to become a master waka builder, taught by Tā Hekenukumai Busby and later by Heemi Eruera. She is a strong role model for Māori women, unafraid to enter areas usually seen as the realm of men in tā moko, whakairo and waka building while demonstrating her commitment to sharing those skills with her whānau, hapū and iwi in the kāinga. Hine has contributed as a claimant whanau and future leader for Ngāti Kuri in the development of a Wai 262 work programme. As a young Māori artist Hine knows firsthand the struggles to retain our own intellectual property as Māori. She has led many restorative projects for her iwi, particularly on their Islands of Rangitāhua (Kermadec Islands) and Manatāwhi (Three Kings). She is a founder of Fourth Generation (4thGen). A group of passionate taiohi engaged in environmental management and biodiversity conservation, on their whenua.
Justice Hetaraka
Nō Ngāti Wai, Ngāi Tahu.
In 2019 Justice Co-Founded HĀ – History of Aotearoa, to develop education programmes that use art and indigenous pedagogy to teach our local history. HĀ’s goal is for tamariki and kaiako to safely engage in our history and be empowered to contribute to our future with a deeper connection to the whenua and to themselves. Justice was always surrounded by her whānau, although was especially guided by the aroha of her grandparents. Living closely with her Papa, she learnt the pūrākau passed down from her tupuna, creating a tapestry of mātauranga Māori, morals, and values. Justice is a firm believer in the power of understanding our hītori and mātauranga Māori, and seeing it as the key to collective responsibility for the protection of the taiao and the practice of mātauranga tuku iho. Justice envisions a better world for our mokopuna and the future generations to come, where mātauranga tuku iho illuminates the path leading forward.
Teone Mc Gregor
Nō ngā iwi o Te Tauihu o te waka a Māui.
Teone has strong roots connecting to Te Tauihu o te waka. He is currently working for the marae he was raised on Whakatū Marae as a Whānau Ora Navigator.
His passion is for his community, his whānau and friends. Future aspirations are to run kaupapa with his cousins and friends to help the betterment of our tangata Māori and Taiao.
Pene Webber
Ko Ngāti Koata te iwi.
Pene Webber has his own business Aorere Media, inspired name after his Moana down in Whakatū. He does Videography/ Photography in the spaces of Te Ao Māori and has been self learning his craft for 10+ years.
He also has been learning Tāonga Pūoro for the last couple of years. His main goal is to push the beauty of Te Ao Māori to the world in storytelling through the lens.
Marewa Nathan
He kanae ahau no Te Oneroa a Tohe. Ko Te Rarawa te iwi, ko Ahipara te kainga. He toronga noki ahau ki Tainui waka me Te Tai Rawhiti, heoi ko taku turangawaewae ko Muriwhenua.
He kaihauhake rongoa, he kai raranga whatu kakahu, whatu korowai, mahi tukutuku noki ahau. He mokopuna ahau no Te Whare Pora, na waaku karani maatua enei akoranga i homai hei oranga maaku. He mea tauhau noki ki roto o Te Whare waka hei akonga tarai waka kopapa. Ko taku ao katoa he mea e aro ana ki te purutia o nga taonga tuku iho, koira te huarahi ki tenei mea te Maori Mana motuhake.
Ngaa Rauuira Puumanawhiti
He raukura nō Te Aho Matua, He tamaiti nō Te Kōhanga Reo;
Ringaringa-Waewae mō te Tari o Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi Clarke, māngai mō te rohe Pōti o Hauraki-Waikato.
I whai wāhi atu a Ngaa Rauuira ki te kaupapa o Tai262 mā te iwi o Ngāti Kahungunu hei pīkau i āna kawenga tūtuki i te Wai262, he mea mahi tahi me tana tuahine a Irihāpeti Roberts.
Ngaa Rauira is based in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara where he provides consultancy services to client organisations on iwi/Maori rights and interests in water services arrangements.
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