Māori online resources

Iwi trusts

• Ngāti Kuia(external link)
• Ngāti Apa(external link)
• Ngāti Toa(external link)
• Te Rūnanga a Rangitāne O Wairau(external link)
• Ngāi Tahu(external link)
• Ngāti Kōata Trust(external link)
• Ngāti Rārua Iwi Trust(external link)
• Ngāti Tama ki Te Waipounamu Trust(external link)
• Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui(external link)
• Ngāti Rarua Atiawa Iwi Trust(external link)
• Wakatū Incorporation New Zealand(external link)

Local information

• The Prow(external link) - Māori stories from the Top of the South
• Te Tau Ihu tribes(external link) - story from The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Treaty of Waitangi and land

• Legal Māori Archive(external link) - He reo nō ngā whakaritenga me ngā pukapuka here / Language of agreement and obligation - Land Deeds including Mackay's 'A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island', Volume One
• Treaty of Waitangi(external link)
• Waitangi Tribunal(external link)
• Māori Land Online(external link) (offers online searching for current Māori land ownership, title and land management information)
• Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements

The Deeds of Settlement entered by individual iwi and the Crown are available at Office of Māori Crown Relations(external link). 

You can also refer to the settlement legislation on  www.legislation.govt.nz(external link). The settlement Acts relating to Tasman District are:

• Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998.
• Ngāti Kōata, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu and Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui Claims Settlement Act 2014.
• Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne o Wairau Claims Settlement Act 2014.
• Ngāti Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Act 2014.

Māori land court minute book index

• A fully searchable index to minute books 1865 - 1910, including Waipounamu Māori Land Court District, covering the Nelson area. Copies of the Nelson Minute Books are held in the Nelson City Library in the Māori Heritage Collection. There is free access in the Nelson Public Library.
• View the online index(external link)

Government sites

• Te Kāhui Māngai(external link) (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations)
• Te Puni Kokiri(external link) - Ministry of Māori Development
• Maori Language Commission(external link) and their Kōrero Māori pages
• Te Ara, the online Encyclopedia of NZ(external link) 
• He Pātaka Kupu Ture(external link): Legal Māori Archive (NZETC)
• Te Karere Ipurangi(external link) Māori News Online
• Te Ao Hou(external link)
• Māori Television(external link)
• Niupepa(external link) - Māori Newspapers
• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre(external link)