Maungatapu te maunga Ngā ti Kuia korero tuku iho states that Te Hoiere te awa Matuahautere named this maunga. He was Titiraukawa te kainga following the korero of his tupuna Kupe and Ngāti Kuia te i wi trying to find a way through to Whakatu (Nelson). Guided by his kaitiaki and tupuna Maungatapu is the mountain Kaikaiawaro he had gone up the Pelorus Te Hoiere is the river Sound and River in his waka Te Hoiere. Titirakawa is the village And Ngāti Kuia are its people Te Hoiere symbolises for Ngāti Kuia people the intense nature of their relationship to their environment and the mauri or life force that is contained in all parts of the natural environment and binds the spiritual and physical worlds. Te Hoiere incorporates the cultural va lue of Ngāti Kuia mauri. Ngāti Kuia has mana, whakapapa associations and history here. We have tikanga and kawa which involve tapu and noa at this place. We have a responsibility and obligation to this place and its cultural, spiritual, historic and/or traditional values. MOTUEKA AND MOTUPIKO RIVERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES Motueka River This wāhi tapu incorporates our cultural values of take tupuna. It is a place which our tupuna explored and used. The River incorporates our cultural values of take ahi ka. It is a core part of our cultural identity. We are identified as tangata whenua here. Motueka is short for Motuweka. This is a fowling term used to describe the practice of rendering a weka lame and tying it to a post so it would call out to other weka to be harvested. An ancient trail follows the course of the Motupiko and Motueka Rivers from Mangatawhai, or ‘The Place of Many Trails’ (Tophouse, near the Nelson Lakes). This formed the main track linking Golden Bay and Tasman Bay with the Wairau and Kawatiri districts. According to Ngāti Kuia tradition a series of pahi, mahinga kai (especially birding areas) and cultivations are associated with this track, the Motueka River and its environs. This river was also part of the pakohe trading industry with quarries and flinting sites nearby. Many artefacts have been found where the Motupiko River converges with the Motueka River. Whakapapa tatai hikohiko Kaikai-a-waro One was a man and one a woman. Matuahautere The man was killed and the woman became the wife of Matuakuha a Ngāti Kuia rangatira . Tukauae From them descended a line of beautiful women culminating in Kunari, the daughter of Tamahau, Kuia marries Rongotamea rangatira of the waka Te Awatea. Whatakaka Kunari was the wife of the renowned Ngāti Kuia Te Aie rangatira Wirihana Kaipara. Aio = Tamahau Kunari Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 39 of 163