Urbanisation : a Māori counter response

Abstract

Te Pooti Marae remains as part of a previously much larger Māori settlement located on the right bank of the Whanganui - New Zealand’s longest navigable river

* Home of the Ati Haunui a Paparangi tribe * The village was largely abandoned after the river road was constructed in the 1930s along with post WWII Māori urbanistation * In 2014 consisted of the marae ātea (ceremonial forecourt), Whare puni (earth floor meeting house circa 1870), Pātaka (elevated storehouse) and Victorian Cottage * Both the Whare puni and Pātaka are built with hybrid Māori / European construction techniques * All three buildings in major need of restoration * New facilities to make the Marae fully functional