Waitangi Tribunal - Ngāti Kahu Remedies Report [pdf, 5.3 MB]
...Kahu became located in the vicinity of Doubtless Bay, from Karikari to Oruru and Mangonui. However, there were no hard and fast boundaries between these groups. Rather, rangatira maintained relationships through agree- ments regarding use rights to resource areas, based in part on common ancestry.6 Ngāti Kahu trace their origins to one of the earliest known waka – Māmaru. Some claim Māmaru was the first to strike the beaches of Tai Tokerau. The waka had earlier sailed under the nam...