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Haere mai - Welcome

to Te Kāhui Māngai (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations).

How to use this site

You can locate information about iwi(tribes) and their representative organisations in three ways:

If you want information on other Māori organisations, use the Other Māori Organisations menu.

Te Kāhui Māngai provides a national list of iwi and Māori organisations in New Zealand.

Which organisations are included?

Te Kāhui Māngai includes those tribal organisations whose mandates to represent their iwi / hapū have been recognised by the New Zealand Government.
These groups are:

  1. Recognised Iwi Organisations and Mandated Iwi Organisations in the Māori Fisheries Act 2004;
  2. Mandated bodies recognised for Treaty of Waitangi settlement purposes, including Treaty negotiations and post-settlement governance entities;
  3. Iwi authorities for the purposes of section 35A of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA);
  4. Groups which represent hapū for the purposes of the RMA and have requested that their information be provided on this site for the purposes of section 35A of the RMA; and
  5. National and Urban Māori organisations that have statutory associations with representative iwi organisations.