Network Waitangi Ōtautahi offers a wide range of resources focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its effects on Aotearoa today. Our curated list is separated into videos, documents and audio files so that you can choose the format that best suits your needs.
Digital copies can be viewed online or downloaded for free. We do invite koha when our resources are used for the provision of education, and can provide receipts.
Hard copies of the resources listed below can be ordered from NWŌ. Postage is an additional cost, or hard copies can be collected by arrangement from Te Whakaruruhau ki Ōtautahi | Christchurch Community House, 213 Lichfield Street. Please email office@nwo.org.nz with the details of your order. Payments and koha can be made to: 03 1369 0284642 00, with your name as reference.
- NWŌ Treaty and Declaration posters (koha)
- NWŌ Q&A Booklet ($5)
- Briefing Paper on the National Action Plan Against Racism ($5)
- United Nations of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (koha)
- Decolonisation posters (koha)
- Passage of Māori Land in Pākehā Ownership ($2)
- Alternatives to anti-Māori themes in news media ($2)
We welcome feedback on all of our resources. Please send to organisers@nwo.org.nz.
Copyright © on printed materials: Permission is given for content to be copied, distributed or transmitted, providing it is properly attributed, not altered in any way, and is not sold for profit.
Licence for digital materials: CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative Works 4.0 International)
Documents
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Questions and Answers Booklet
Questions and Answers – 2018 EDITION. This updated edition also includes the 2018 expression in English of te reo text of Te Tiriti. It…
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1840 Treaty and 1835 Declaration Posters
This NEW 2018 EDITION of the NWO Treaty poster includes the new expression in English of the text in te…
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NWŌ Treaty Implementation Chart
In our NWŌ approach we refer to the way that all five aspects of the Treaty need to be taken…
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5 Minute Pre-Treaty Stories
PODCASTS NOW AVAILABLE! A collection of short stories about encounters between between Maori and European prior to the signing of…
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Alternatives to anti-Māori themes in news media
The news media are not neutral or objective. Research shows that the news repeats and reinforces negative themes about Māori…
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NWO OUTLINE OF SOME PRE-TREATY HISTORY
Carbon dating of the remains of the Pacific rat, kiore exulans, has revealed that there were visitors to Aotearoa from…
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2014 – 2023 Changes in the Social Context
These changes give hope for a multicultural Treaty-based future where there is a shift from decision-making that relies on majoritarianism…
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Re-imagining the future
NWO’s contribution to the Iwi Chairs Forum 2020 call encouraging people to share their vision in re-imagining the future for…
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What is the Treaty of Waitangi and what has it got to do with co-governance?
In the context of te Tiriti and He Wakaputanga, co-Governance can only be understood as affirming the pre-existing authority and…
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Who are Tangata Tiriti?
At Waitangi in 1989 when he was chair of the Waitangi Tribunal, Sir Edward Taihakurei Durie, current chair of the…
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The Tangata Tiriti Checklist
On 7th November 2024, Tina Ngata posted The Tangata Tiriti Checklist on her Instagram. It is for anyone and everyone…
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Ki te whaiao, ki te ao Mārama
Ki te whaiao, ki te ao Mārama is a community engagement report to inform the development of a National Action…
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Maranga Mai
The impact of colonisation, racism and white supremacy on tangata whenua in Aotearoa New Zealand. Published by Te Kāhui Tika Tangata…
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The Passage of Māori Land into Pākehā Ownership – a Māori view
Information in this document attempts to show some of the methods used to alienate Maori land rather than actual alienations,…
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Te Tiriti in 15 languages
Information about Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 15 languages, produced by Tangata Tiriti – Treaty People. Order printed copies or…
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The Easy Read book about the Treaty
The Easy Read book about the Treaty of Waitangi gives a concise history of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, from the…
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Understanding the Treaty with everyone who does not have a Maori ancestor
The affirmation in 2010 by the New Zealand Government of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…
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Decolonisation Posters
These posters, produced by Tamaki Treaty workers have been developed as part of the Tiriti-based futures + Anti-racism 2020 programme.…
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Report of Matike Mai Aotearoa – The Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation
This report is the result of 252 hui between 2012 and 2015.
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United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
– bilingual version in both te reo Māori and English –
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NATIONAL ACTION PLAN AGAINST RACISM
BRIEFING PAPER on the forthcoming NATIONAL ACTION PLAN AGAINST RACISM Hard copies are available from NWŌ for $5 + p&p.
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The Treaty of Waitangi in our National Life
The Treaty of Waitangi in our National Life presentation by Morgan Godfery to NWO AGM on 12 October 2017.
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Ngā Rerenga o Te Tiriti
Reflections from Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) engaging with the Treaty at different stages of their Treaty voyages.
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Joan Cook Memorial Essays – State of the Pākehā Nation
Since 2006 the Treaty education group Network Waitangi Whangarei and Te Taumata Kaumatua o Ngapuhi have organised events in the…
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Strongly Sustainable for New Zealand
the purpose of this paper is to provide insights for people who wish to engage in thinking and debate about…
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Commitment to a Treaty-based Multicultural New Zealand
This Federation of Multicultural Councils Multicultural New Zealand has shared this statement (on which NWO worked with them). This expression…
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi-based practice in health promotion
This free comprehensive resource from STIR: Stop Institutional Racism offers guidance for all who work in the health sector to…
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Ngāpuhi Speaks
Ngapuhi Nui Tonu kaumatua decided to appoint an independent panel to attend all the Waitangi Tribunal hearings on WAI1040, conduct…
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Embedding Maori and Treaty Rights in our nation’s constitution – what can each of us do?
A talk and conversation at the NWO AGM by Professor David V Williams, Professor of Law, Auckland/Tamaki Makaurau, on 4…
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Linguistic Evidence of Patu Hohepa to WAI1040
This is the evidence presented by Patu Hohepa to the Waitangi Tribunal in the matter of the Treaty of Waitangi…
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Brief of Evidence of Moana Jackson to WAI1040
This is the brief of evidence presented by Moana Jackson to the Waitangi Tribunal in the matter of the Treaty…
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A Treaty-Based Multicultural Future
This statement was prepared for the NZ Federation of Multicultural Councils’ workshop at the Human Rights Commission Diversity Forum, Wellington,…
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Strong Sustainability for New Zealand: Principles and Scenarios
The booklet ‘Strong Sustainability for New Zealand: Principles and Scenarios’ seeks to answer two questions: What does true sustainability look…
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Developing a vision for the future of Aotearoa, by Mark Solomon
The Treaty of Waitangi is a partnership document that lets Ngai Tahu become engaged in important issues to advance the…
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Justice Durie (DVD)
This documentary looks at the influential factors in Justice Durie’s life as well as the surrounding historical and political factors…
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Earth Charter
The Earth Charter pays special attention to indigenous peoples (Principle 3, item 12).
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NWO submission to the Foreshore and Seabed Act Ministerial Review, 21 April 2009
The NWO oral submission to the Foreshore and Seabed Act Ministerial Review meeting in Christchurch on 21 April 2009.
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Te Mana i Waitangi: Human Rights and the Treaty of Waitangi, by Bill Hamilton
At the NWO ‘Indigenous Rights – A Win-Win?’ event on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…
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Treaty is about rights of all NZers
In The Press (Thursday 11 October 2007). Non-Maori need to recognise that the Treaty of Waitangi is about their rights…
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Sustaining Our Communities
New Zealanders spend more time on unpaid work than on paid work. Contributions of paid and unpaid work and the…
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Who Owns the Water?, by Mark Solomon
Presentation to Engineers for Social Responsibility (09 October 2007).
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples i Te Reo (02 October 2007)
In Te reo and English.
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The Relevance of the Treaty Today
The Treaty was signed in 1840, but what has it got to do with today?
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Why are there differences between Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Crown’s English-language version and what did Māori intend in entering into the Treaty agreement?
Note: We use ‘the Treaty of Waitangi’ and ‘te Tiriti o Waitangi’ interchangeably to signify the reo Maori text. We…
Videos
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How New Zealand was Colonised
Antoine Frere, one of the French film makers of this recent documentary on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, has given permission…
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Ani Mikaere – Keynote speaker at the Community Waikato Conference, ‘Strengthening through stories’
Ani Mikaere (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou) is a barrister and solicitor and teaches Māori law and philosophy. Listen to her…
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Te Tiriti Based Futures 2022 Presentations
Transcripts and videos from an incredible line up of speakers and leaders discussing topics including institutional racism and anti-racism, decolonisation,…
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Videos from the He Tohu exhibition (created by contributors and vistors)
He Tohu is a permanent exhibition at the National Library of three iconic constitutional documents that shape Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Te Whare, The House (film)
This film was written as a historical parable to engage people with te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Treaty of Waitangi.
Audio
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5 Minute Pre-Treaty Stories
PODCASTS NOW AVAILABLE! A collection of short stories about encounters between between Maori and European prior to the signing of…
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Te Tiriti o Waitangi and human rights legislation podcast episode – Speak Up Kōrerotia
Speak-up Kōrerotia Podcast Episode Guests: Paul Hunt (Chief Commissioner, Human Rights Commission), Katherine Peet (Network Waitangi Ōtautahi) and Richard Tankersley…
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The Treaty of Waitangi:Speaking to a Treaty worker in Aotearoa
3CR 855 AM’s Emma Kefford interviews Katherine Peet on the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Refreshing Human Rights for our times : The role of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
HRC Chief Commissioner Paul Hunt’s engaging talk on ‘Refreshing Human Rights for our times : The role of Te Tiriti…
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Indigenous Rights – Professor Claire Charters
Indigenous Rights presentation by Professor Claire Charters to NWO AGM on 22 June 2023
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Rourou Conversations – Becoming Tangata Tiriti
Becoming Tangata Tiriti – Conversations with Gwyn John and Fi Deehan on Plains FM