Hirini Tane
Hirini grew up in the small marae community of Oromahoe in the Bay of Islands, Northland. He completed a doctorate at the University of Otago, Dunedin, exploring the past-present and future of his village. The general theme of his research interests is understanding something of the relationship between people, land and water.
Hirini has been involved with Te Potiki National Trust, and the website www.maorimaps.com since 2010. He co-founded the Māori community focused company Takarangi Research. He now supports Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki (Lincoln University) as its Māori Strategic Capability Lead.
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Over five years, and more than twenty thousand kilometres, our small team visited almost every ancestral Māori community of New Zealand to create the first ever map of ancestral marae. Our mission is to reconnect descendants with marae through our web platform – Maorimaps.com.