On the 23rd of October 2019, 250 years after it was gifted, the Hinematioro Pou was welcomed back by Te Aitanga a Hauiti and the wider Tairawhiti at Hauiti Marae.
Te Ahikā | Te Koha Tuatahi
The personalities and the events that led to Hinematioro giving the pou to Captain James Cook in 1769 was the inspiration that led to the creation of the mantra “Dual Heritage, Shared Futures”. These encounters between Te Aitanga‐a-Hauiti and the British visitors mark the first significant, positive exchange between Māori and Pākehā, and are the beginning of the dual heritage and shared history of present residents of Uawa.
COMING SOON | Mangarara Pā e-book
Excerpt 1 from Mangarara Pā:
“In August 2007 a portal in to the past was opened for Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti to step back in time and rediscover the origins and implications of dual-heritage and a shared future in Uawa-nui-a-Ruamatua.
Mangarara Pā was forgotten, this book is an opportunity for this story to be retold, and the final resting place of these ancestors to never be forgotten again.”