Ngāti Awa
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The Ngāti Awa iwi or Māori tribe of New Zealand.
Ngāti Awa consists of a confederation of 22 hapu (or sub-tribes) located around Whakatane, Te Teko and Matata in the North Island of Aotearoa / New Zealand. In addition to the traditional hapu there are two urban-based hapu, Ngāti Awa-ki-Tamaki at Auckland and Ngāti Awa-ki-Poneke at Wellington. According to the 1996 New Zealand Census, around 11,000 people registered their affiliation with Ngāti Awa.
Ngāti Awa derives its name from Awanuiarangi, son of the famous Toikairakau, who settled in the Bay of Plenty many generations before the arrival of Pākehā to Aotearoa.
The hapu of Ngāti Awa established Te Runanga o Ngāti Awa first as a Charitable Trust in 1981 and then as a Māori Trust Board in 1988.
In 2005 legislation was passed settling Ngāti Awa's long standing Treaty of Waitangi claims and establishing a new governance body. The Runanga is the body that looks after the collective affairs of the members of Ngāti Awa.
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