In Māori culture, rangatira are tribal chiefs, the leaders of a hapū. Ideally, rangatira were people of great practical wisdom who held authority on behalf of the tribe and maintained boundaries betwe
Īhāia Te Kirikūmara (died 1873), a 19th-century rangatira
A sign explaining the tangata whenua history of The Bricks, Christchurch
The Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is a document of importance to the history of New Zealand, and its national identity. The cornerstone legislative recognition of the Treaty
The Waitangi Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi
Manuscript copy of the Treaty of Waitangi (in Māori) in the hand of Henry Tacy Kemp
Rev Henry Williams, who translated the treaty into Māori with the help of his son Edward Marsh Williams.
A later reconstruction in a painting by Marcus King, depicting Tāmati Wāka Nene in the act of signing. Hobson is incorrectly shown in full uniform (he was actually wearing civilian clothing).