Omaha Marae

Re-construction in Progress

Naumai Haeremai Haeremai - Welcome to the Omaha Marae offical website.

This site is a platform for the Omaha Marae to raise its profile, achieve shared objectives and to showcase the beauty of the Marae and its people.  To access the members page you must register using the registration form found in the Home page under heading Registration/Info, and send to  roimccabe@xtra.co.nz. Some of you are already registered from previous years but need to notify me to activate.

We hope that visitors to the site will be inspired by our panaromic setting and consider Omaha Marae as a venue for whanau gatherings.

At this time Marae bookings are only avaiable to whanau.

Our Marae

The Omaha Pā (Marae) is situated at Little Omaha (Waikowhai ) and was the original kāinga for our Tupuna -Te Kiri Patuparaoa raua ko  Pepei.  Later the home of Rahui raua ko Tenetahi. It is also the place where our  Tupuna rest in peace in our Wahi Tapu at Te Waikowhai.

In times past the mana of Ngāti Manuhiri spread from Te Paepae-o-Tūmatauenga (Bream Head) in the north to Whangapāraoa in the south.  Te Paepae-o-Tu is a Pa site at Te Mangawhai.  Te Urunga and his Teina Te Kiri Patuparaoa were firm in their identity as Te Kawerau, Ngati Manuhiri and Te Uri-o-Katea (Hapu).  They never acknowledged any other iwi or hapu.

Prior to the arrival of  the descendants of Tua (Whātua), Ngāti Manuhiri as part of the confederated hapu of Te Kawerau, together with Ngāi Tāhuhu were the kaitiaki of the lands which are now referred to in part as the Rodney District.  To our north lived our related hapu of the descendants of Te Ruangakau (Uri-o-Ruangakau) at Mangawhai and Te Arai, at Pakirikiri and Waikowhai, the descendants of Te Awa (Uri-o-Awa) and to the south the descendants of Te Marohiro (Uri-o-Marohiro).  Southward to Tawharanui and beyond, Ngati Raupo, Ngati Rongo, Ngati Kahu, Ngati Ka, and Poutaniwha.

Our intimate relationship (Whakapapa) with Ngati Wai and Te Uri-o-Hau have been maintained throughout the years and continue to this day.  

Together with our whanaunga from Otamatea and Oruawharo we continue the ancient tradition of kaitiakitanga over our rohe......