HE WHAKAMĀRAMA MŌ TE TARAIPARA Ō RŪĀTOKI
He pae wānana, he taraipara mō nā mānai hapū o te taha whakararo o te Rohe Pōtae o Tūhoe. Timata ai te rohe o Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki mai Tāneatua ka ahu whakauta atu ki Rūātoki, māwhiti i te awa o Rangitāiki tau atu ai ki Waiohau. E rua na mānai mai ia hapū ka noho ki te taraipara nei. Ia marama huitahi ai rātau ki te tohu, ki te wānana kaupapa e piki ai
te tōnuitana me te oranatonutana o wō tātau whānau, hapū, mārua hoki. He tari, he kaimahi tā tēnei kāhui hapū hei whakarinarina, whakatinana, i ō rātau wawata. E whā katoa nā taraipaira kei roto mai o te rohe o Tūhoe, ā, ko Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki tētahi,
Ko nā uara me te ahurea ō Tūhoe kei te ārahi i nā kaupapa whakawhanake i ō tātau hapū. Ko te kaupapa matua ō ēnei mahi a Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki te mana motuhake o ōnā hapū p**a noa i te rohe o Tūhoe. E iwa nā marae i raro i Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki, Ko Te Rewarewa, Ōtenuku, Te Papakāina, Te Tōtara, Tauarau, Ōhotu,Pane Te Ure, Ōwhakatoro me Tāwhia nā marae. Ehara tēnei i te kaupapa hou, nō te tau 1950 i whakatūhia ai e nā Ranatira o taua wā te taraipara tuatahi arā ko te “Western Tūhoe Tribal Executive” tōnā īnoa. Nō nā tau i muri mai ka huri te īnoa ki Te Komiti ō Runa. E mōhiotia i enei ra ko Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki
ABOUT TE TARAIPARA Ō RŪĀTOKI
Established in the 1950s, Tūhoe leaders of the day formed the very first hapū based Western Tūhoe Tribal Executive Committee. Later, the committee would become known as Te Koopu and of recent times as Te Komiti o Runa (TKOR) ‘the tribal’ or ‘te taraipara’ and now today referred to as Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki. Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki is a voluntary forum comprised of two hapū representatives from each of the nine marae in the North and Northwest area within the Tūhoe homelands. The mission and purpose of the forum is to raise the vibrancy, vitality, and prosperity of our people guided by Tūhoe values and culture. Much like its founding predecessors, Te Taraipara ō Rūātoki is charged with the responsibility to support hapū and whānau realise their aspirations of a future that embodies ‘te mana motuhake o Tūhoe’.
