Ngā Pōtiki ā Tamapahore Trust is a tribal organisation that serves the current and future generations of Ngā Pōtiki iwi.
We are tasked with supporting and advancing the educational, economic, social, physical, spiritual and cultural wellbeing of Ngā Pōtiki.
We support, care for and enhance the natural and built environment, including places of cultural and spiritual significance to Ngā Pōtiki.
We undertake activities that grow and sustain the assets of Ngā Pōtiki.
Nau mai ki te iwi taketake o Ngā Pōtiki ā Tamapahore
Our Story
The ancestors of Ngā Pōtiki were part of a group with origins from Mataatua waka, which migrated from the eastern Bay of Plenty to Tauranga Moana.
On the death of their rangatira, Te Rangihouhiri I, at Maketu, the group became known as Ngāi Te Rangi.
Tamapahore, brother of Te Rangihouhiri I, took up the leadership of the iwi at that time.
Ngai Te Rangi then continued their heke into Tauranga Moana.
Tamapahore and his siblings Tamaumuroa and Tamapinaki took up occupation of Te Rae o Pāpāmoa, Mangatawa and Pāpāmoa among other places.
Ngā Pōtiki is a tribal entity among the descendants of Tamapahore, Tamaumuroa and Tamapinaki.
Kia marama taku titiro ki Tauranga
Ko Rangihouhiri, ko Ranginui
Kei Rangataua, ko Tamapahore
Ngā pāpaka o Rangataua
He paruparu te kai
He taniwha ngā tāngata
Keenly I look across to Tauranga
There dwells Te Rangihouhiri and Ranginui
Over at Te Tāhuna o Rangataua dwells Tamapahore
The crabs of Rangataua
They eat mud
And have the boldness of demigods