Ko Horouta te waka

Ko Puketapu te maunga

Ko Te Arai te awa

Ko Ngai Tawhiri, ko Ngāti Kaipoho, ko Ngāti Maru ngā hapū matua

Ko Rongowhakaata te iwi.

“na te kotahi a Turahiri ripo ana te moana”

Anō te ataahua a te nohotahi a ngā uri o Rongowhakaata. Muia ana te marae o Whakato i Manutuke i te tangata, tamariki mai, pakeke mai. Ko te hainatanga o te kawenata a Rongowhakaata me te Karauna (Deed of Settlement) te kaupapa nui o te rā. Ko tētahi o ngā wāhanga o te kawenata nei e hāngai ana ki ngā uri a Te Kooti Rikirangi. Timata mai te rā i te ata hāpara tonu, a, paoho ana ngā karakia o te Hāhi Ringatū.

I te tekau karaka i te ata i whakaemi mai te tira o te karauna ki te aroaro o te marae. Nā te Minita o ngā take o te Tiriti o Waitangi a Hon Christopher Finlayson i ārahi, ā, hei hoa haere mōna ko Hon Tariana Turia, Hon Tau Henare, me te Mema Pāremata mo te Ikaroa-Rawhiti a Hon Parekura Horomia.

Mau ana te wehi i te pōhiri a Rongowhakaata. I tōna otinga ka hāngai te rere o ngā mahi ki te kaupapa matua, ā, nā te Hon Christopher Finlayson i waha i ngā kōrero e pā ana ki ngā hē o te Karauna mai i te tau 1865. I puta i a ia te kōrero e mea ana, ‘ko ngā he a te karauna ki ngā uri o Rongowhakaata ētahi o ngā tūkinotanga nunui rawa i te Tiriti o Waitangi.’ Me tana mea hoki e kore rawa e taea e tēnei kawenata te karo i ngā hē kātoa a te karauna. Heoi hei tā Hon Parekura Horomia ko te kaupapa nui o te rā ko te rongoā i ngā he.

Na Stan Pardoe te whaikōrero mo te taha ki a Rongowhakaata, ā, nā Peter Moeau i tuku i ngā korero mo Ngā Uri a Te Kooti Rikirangi. I tino pupu ake i roto i nga korero te arohanui ki era o nga Rongowhakaata nā ratau hoki i timata, i para hoki i te huarahi i ngā tau kua taha.

I te hainatanga o te kawenata nei ka riro I a Rongowhakaata te $22.24 miriona me wētahi wāhanga whenua, a, eke rawa ki te 133ha. Ko tā Ngā Uri a Te Kooti Rikirangi he $250 mano me te 50ha i Matawhero. Arā noa ngā wāwahitanga o tenei puretumu (redress), heoi ko te ariā matua i puta ko te titiro whakamua.

I puta mai wētahi o ngā taonga a Rongowhakaata i te whare pupuri taonga o Te Tairāwhiti me Te Papa hoki. Me te mīharo hoki o ngā hītori me ngā kōrero tūhono i aua taonga ki te kaupapa o te rā. Kāti, i tomo atu te tini ki roto i te whare kai ki te hākari tahi, a, tau ana te āio ki te marae.