Ōnuku Marae
papatipu marae, Ōnuku Rūnanga — Ngāi Tārewa and Ngāti Irakehu of Ngāi Tahu
papatipu marae
The record
- Wharenui
- Karaweko
- Wharekai
- Amīria Puhirere
- It serves
- Ōnuku Rūnanga — Ngāi Tārewa and Ngāti Irakehu of Ngāi Tahu
- Iwi
- Ngāi Tahu
- Hapū
- Ngāi Tārewa · Ngāti Irakehu
- Address
- Ōnuku Road, The Kaik
- Suburb
- Ōnuku
- District
- Christchurch City
- Reserve
- Māori Reserve 886
What the directories say
Ōnuku Rūnanga's marae on the Akaroa Harbour shore — where Ngāi Tahu chiefs first signed the Treaty in the South Island in 1840, and where the Crown delivered its apology to the iwi in 1998. The whare tīpuna Karaweko, opened in 1997, was the first fully carved meeting house raised on Banks Peninsula in a century.
The marae’s own kōrero
The marae’s own telling belongs to its people, these doors go to their sites and the directories they speak through.
In the archive
A document a search names is a lead worth reading, not a claim the site makes.
The roll beside it
The kāinga and pā the record names nearest it, Ōnawe Pā (4.8 km) · Waikākahi Pā (19.2 km).
Nearest on the roll by distance, proximity, not kinship; each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people.
Questions, answered briefly
Ōnuku Road, The Kaik, Ōnuku, Christchurch, on the map →.
Karaweko, the wharekai is Amīria Puhirere, as the directories the marae speaks through state it.
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu. Hapū: Ngāi Tārewa, Ngāti Irakehu.
papatipu marae, it serves Ōnuku Rūnanga — Ngāi Tārewa and Ngāti Irakehu of Ngāi Tahu. It stands in Christchurch City.
Sources: Ōnuku Rūnanga — onuku.nz · Ngāi Tahu — Ōnuku papatipu rūnanga · Ōnuku Marae — Christchurch City Libraries Ti Kōuka Whenua · Environment Canterbury — Ngāi Tahu Papatipu Rūnanga Marae layer.
A directory, not a history: name, wharenui, affiliation and address as each rūnanga and the public directories state them. A listing is a lead, not a claim, each marae’s own kōrero lives with its people and is linked, not retold, here. Coordinates pin the marae site as the map layers and directories place it.