Te Urewera
The Week in Detail: COP27, Te Urewera, and Make It 16
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The stoush in Te Urewera that's about more than just huts
The removal of back country huts in Te Urewera has brought tensions simmering within Tūhoe to the surface. Audio
High Court orders Tūhoe stop scrapping huts in Te Urewera
Tūhoe has been ordered to immediately stop scrapping tramping huts in Te Urewera after one their own took legal action.
The land belongs to Tūhoe, and its operational entity, Te Uru Taumatua, has… Video, Audio
DOC looking at need for more Te Urewera funding
Conservation Minister Kiri Allan is promising a forensic examination of the funding available to Tūhoe to maintain Te Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana as one of the Great Walks, after an iwi appeal for… Video, Audio
Te Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana to reopen
Te Urewera and Lake Waikaremoana will reopen and welcome back visitors next month.
Encounters with Whanganui and Waikaremoana
Kennedy Warne has been visiting Whanganui and Waikaremoana. He examines the legal personhood of Te Urewera and Te Awa Tupua and tells Kathryn what he saw and learned during his time there. He looks at… Audio
Tamati Kruger - Koia mārika ‒ So it is
Tāmati Kruger was educated at Victoria University in Wellington, where he also tutored in te reo Māori and was involved in the early days of the Te Reo Māori Society in the 1970s. He is the chief… Audio
Tūhoe still carry emotional impact of raids
A decade on, the Urewera raids have had a lasting impact on the people of Tūhoe, the son of an activist says. Audio
Kēnana pardon a chance to move forward - signatory
It's a historic day for the descendants of Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana as the Crown signs an agreement to grant him a statutory pardon.
Jim Bolger and Tamati Kruger in conversation
Jim Bolger and Tamati Kruger talk with Wena Harawira about Tuhoe and Parihaka treaty settlements, truth and reconciliation, and how their life experience has affected the discharge of their public… Audio
Plans under way to pardon Rua Kēnana
The Tuhoe prophet was imprisoned for resisting arrest after troops stormed his home and killed his son just over 100 years ago. Audio
Te Urewera: slips, flooding and stranded whanau
"We woke up to the river running through our driveway and flooding on to the Taneatua rugby fields and the road, basically creating a moat around our farm ... The river itself was cresting the… Audio
2016: Tame Iti on mana, authority, and a life devoted to activism
In the 2016 Reeves lecture, Maori activist and artist Tame Iti discusses the concept of mana and how it can be seen as a way of challenging authority. Audio
Demolition of Āniwaniwa Visitor Centre poised to begin
The controversial demolition of the historic Āniwaniwa Visitor Centre, next to Lake Waikaremoana, will begin next week.
Te Urewera missing 'were unlikely to survive the night'
A woman and four young children rescued from Te Urewera bush country after two days might not have survived the night, a search and rescue expert says.
Missing group in Te Urewera winched to safety
There's been a happy end to a 24-hour search for a woman and four young children missing in Te Urewera for two days. Audio
Tuhoe leader Tamati Kruger
Kim Dotcom's US lawyer is forecasting the extradition case will now go all the way to the Supreme Court and take up to another four years. Audio
Crown repeatedly breached Treaty in dealings with Te Urewera
Some Te Urewera families were forced to live in caves and food shortages meant they had to eat rotten potatos. Audio
Crown's found in breach of the Waitangi Tribunal
The Waitangi Tribunal has ruled the crown's refusal to pay to use Lake Waikaremoana for hydro-power generation breached of the Treaty of Waitangi. Audio
Report finds Crown breached Treaty of Waitangi
The iwi guardians of Lake Waikaremoana say a Waitangi Tribunal report paves the way to compensate for decades of Crown mis-use of the lake. Audio