21-459: Ruatāhuna is a small town in the remote country of Te Urewera , in the northeast of New Zealand 's North Island . It is 90 kilometres directly west of Gisborne , and 18 kilometres northwest of Lake Waikaremoana . By road, it is 50 kilometres south-east of Murupara , and 110 kilometres north-west of Wairoa . It is on the upper reaches of the Whakatāne River , and surrounded on three sides by
42-515: A most impressive work. It remains an essential source of reference for students and scholars of New Zealand [...] But it is very much a creature of a particular time and place. The work's importance, both as a reference and as an historical snapshot of mid-20th century New Zealand, motivated the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to digitise and republish the work online. The text and images have been made available, without corrections or updates, as
63-531: A new legal entity simply called Te Urewera. A land settlement was signed in June 2013 after being ratified by all Tūhoe members. Under this, Tūhoe received financial, commercial and cultural redress valued at approximately $ 170 million; a historical account and Crown apology; and the co-governance of Te Urewera, put into law by enacting the Tūhoe Claims Settlement Act 2014. The protected area
84-619: A small part in the Gisborne District . All the settlements are outside the protected area. The region is isolated, with State Highway 38 being the only major arterial road crossing it, running from Waiotapu near Rotorua via Murupara to Wairoa . The name Te Urewera is a Māori phrase meaning "The Burnt Penis" (compare Māori : ure , lit. 'penis'; Māori : wera , lit. 'burnt'). Because of its isolation and dense forest, Te Urewera remained largely untouched by British colonists until
105-758: A traditional sanctuary known as the Urewera District Native Reserve, which had virtual home rule. However, between 1915 and 1926 the Crown mounted what has been called "a predatory purchase campaign", the Urewera Consolidation Scheme, which took some 70 percent of the reserve and relocated the Tūhoe to more than 200 small blocks of land scattered throughout what in 1954 became the Urewera National Park. In
126-444: Is a co-educational state Māori language immersion area school for Year 1 to 13 students, with a roll of 82 as of August 2024. 38°33′S 176°57′E / 38.550°S 176.950°E / -38.550; 176.950 This Bay of Plenty geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Te Urewera Te Urewera is an area of mostly forested, sparsely populated rugged hill country in
147-503: Is more comprehensive, and more representative of minorities , than previous New Zealand reference works, such as the vanity press The Cyclopedia of New Zealand published around sixty years earlier, but not as representative as the later Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . A number of women were included as representing firsts, including Kate Edger . Its publication met with an enthusiastic response; within two months almost all of its initial print run of 34,000 copies had sold. After
168-544: Is now administered by the Te Urewera Board, which comprises joint Tūhoe and Crown membership. Te Urewera has legal personhood , and owns itself, having in 2014 become the first natural resource in the world to be awarded the same legal rights as a person. The new entity continues to meet the International Union for Conservation of Nature criteria for a Category II National Park . As of 2022,
189-595: The North Island of New Zealand , located inland between the Bay of Plenty and Hawke Bay . Te Urewera is the rohe (historical home) of Tūhoe , a Māori iwi (tribe) known for its stance on Māori sovereignty . In 1954, a large area of Te Urewera was designated Te Urewera National Park by the New Zealand Government . In 2014 after a Waitangi Tribunal settlement with Tūhoe, the national park
210-650: The Rangitaiki River and west of a line along the lower Waimana River and the upper reaches of the Waioeka River . Its southern boundary was marked by Maungataniwha Mountain , the Waiau River , and Lake Waikaremoana ." Much of it is mountainous country, covered with native forest, and it includes the Huiarau , Ikawhenua , and Maungapohatu ranges. There are a few flat mountain valleys, chiefly
231-598: The weka , live in the area. The crown fern ( Blechnum discolor ) is a widespread understory plant. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand is an official encyclopaedia about New Zealand , published in three volumes by the New Zealand Government in 1966. Edited by Alexander Hare McLintock , the parliamentary historian, assisted by two others, the encyclopaedia included over 1,800 articles and 900 biographies, written by 359 contributing authors. The encyclopaedia
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#1732786797576252-530: The Ahikereru valley, where the settlements of Minginui and Te Whaiti are, and the Ruatāhuna valley. In the north, towards Whakatāne and the coast, are lowland areas, where the settlements of Tāneatua , Ruatoki and Waimana are located. Lake Waikaremoana and Lake Waikareiti are in the south-eastern part. Most of Te Urewera is in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region and northern Hawke's Bay Region , with
273-654: The Te Urewera inquiry district. Part One of its report, covering the period up to 1872, was published in July 2009 and found that the Crown had treated Tūhoe unfairly, especially with regard to the confiscation of a large area of land in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in 1866. In 1954 much of Te Urewera was designated as the Te Urewera National Park , but that was disestablished in 2014, to be replaced by
294-637: The Te Urewera protected area, formerly the Te Urewera National Park . The road that runs from Murupara through Ruatahuna to Āniwaniwa on Lake Waikaremoana, a large part of which is unsealed, used to be designated as part of State Highway 38 . It is a subdivision of the Galatea-Murupara ward of the Whakatāne District . The area was the site of much action during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s and 1870s. From 1870 to 1888, one of
315-644: The early 20th century Rua Kenana Hepetipa formed a religious community at Maungapōhatu . In 1999, the Waitangi Tribunal published a 520-page working paper which analysed the history of the region and concluded that the Crown had never intended to allow Tūhoe self-government. Between 2003 and 2005, a panel of the Waitangi Tribunal consisting of Judge Pat Savage, Joanne Morris , Tuahine Northover, and Ann Parsonson heard evidence on land claims in Te Urewera and designated an area which it called
336-569: The early 20th century; in the 1880s it was still in effect under Māori control. Te Kooti , a Māori leader, found refuge from his pursuers among Tūhoe, with whom he formed an alliance. As with the King Country at the time, few Pākehā risked entering Te Urewera. Between 1894 and 1912, with the approval of a Crown statute, the Urewera District Native Reserve Act 1896, leaders of Tūhoe were able to establish
357-577: The largest wharenui ever built, Te Whai-a-te-Motu, was constructed for Te Kooti and his followers. Ruatāhuna is within the rohe (tribal area) of Tūhoe , and has several marae affiliated with Tūhoe hapū : In October 2020, the Government committed $ 3,996,258 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade Kākānui, Mātaatua, Ōhāua, Pāpueru, Tātāhoata, Uwhiārae, Te Wai-iti marae, creating 79 jobs. Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Huiarau
378-582: The last 3,000 copies sold, it was never reprinted, more due to the non-commercial priorities of the government-run printing office than any lack of demand or interest from the general public. The encyclopaedia was well received by scholars and teachers, and is still regarded as an important New Zealand reference work, even considering its errors and omissions, and the biases of its time. Jock Phillips , writing in 2003 about his editorship of its successor Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand , considers it an "illustrious predecessor" and describes it as even now,
399-495: The members of the Te Urewera Board are Jim Bolger of Te Kūiti , a former prime minister of New Zealand, Maynard Manuka Apiata of Rūātoki, Lance Winitana of Waikaremoana, Marewa Titoko of Waimana, Te Tokawhakāea Tēmara of Rotorua, Tāmati Kruger of Taneatua, Dave Bamford, a sustainable tourism consultant, John Wood , previously a chief Crown negotiator, and Jo Breese, a former chief executive of World Wildlife Fund New Zealand . All North Island native-forest bird species, except for
420-512: The settlements of Ruatoki North , Waimana , Tāneatua , and privately owned land. The extent of Te Urewera is not formally defined, but is shown by Te Urewera Board as extending from the shores of the Ōhiwa Harbour of the Bay of Plenty to south of Lake Waikaremoana , and includes the Huiarau Range and Ikawhenua Range . According to An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966), "The Urewera Country originally included all lands east of
441-399: Was disestablished and the former area was given environmental personhood . This area is now managed by Te Urewera Board, a body composed of both members who represent Tūhoe and the New Zealand Government. Outside of the protected area, Te Urewera includes land administered as Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park , Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park , customary private land owned by Tūhoe,
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