Ngāti Whatua Kapa Haka

Learn this genre of Māori performing arts:

• Haka pōhiri
• Mōteatea
• Waiata ā ringa
• Haka

Why choose the Ngati Whatua Haka app?
• In-depth Ngāti Whātua content
• Experienced Ngāti Whātua performers showing the way
• All aspects of each composition undertaken by Ngāti Whātua
• No cost, convenient, accessible and an interactive tool

Here are some tools to help:
• Eight performance videos
• Words & translations
• Women’s actions tutorials
• Men’s actions tutorials
• Guitar tutorials

Explore Ngāti Whātua histories:
• Kaitito Kōrero (insight from composers)
• Tuhinga (written narratives)
• Paehono (links to further readings)

Sing along and learn the actions to these Ngāti Whātua waiata and haka:
• Haka Pōhiri
• Te Karakia a Whakatau
• Te Kahu Tōpuni o Tuperiri
• Hiwi Onepū
• Waihekeao
• Matarikia
• Poumatua
• Tāwhaki

Create your own version:
• Record yourself, your whānau or your group singing along to any of the waiata

Ngāti Whātua are an indigenous people of New Zealand and are a hapū of the wider Ngāti Whātua iwi located in and around Tamaki isthmus. The ahikaaroa home fires are centred around Ōrākei Marae. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Whai Māia is responsible for the continued development and establishment of kapa haka initiatives and programmes. The Ngāti Whātua Kapa Haka app is one of the initiatives.

He huinga mātauranga
He tuku i te pitomata auaha
He puna ora mō ngā reanga ā muri ake nei
Whātua nuku, Whātua rangi e ngunguru nei i a hahā!!!

The gathering of knowledge
A releasing of creative potential
A source of wellbeing for those to come
Ngāti Whātua rumbles!!!