We do not hold any Waitangi Tribunal claims (WAI Claims) as Ngā Hapū o Te Ahuahu. However there are WAI claims that have listed one or more of our hapū as being on the behalf of.
Claims that are actively connected to us are currently carried and lead by the those that submitted and registered the claim to the Waitangi Tribunal, those are our ‘WAI claimants’
There also exists claims that are made on behalf of Iwi, and or Māori. Below is a list of some significant claims made so far.
Wai 262 was a Waitangi Tribunal claim about the recognition of rights around, and control of, traditional Māori knowledge, customs and relationships with the natural environment. Commonly known as the flora and fauna claim, it was first lodged in 1991 – the report was not released until 2011.
WAI 1040 Te Paparahi o Te Raki is a significant claim brought before New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal by the hapu of Ngāpuhi.  It is in the process of considering the Māori and Crown understandings of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga / The Declaration of Independence 1835 and Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. This aspect of the inquiry raises issues as to the nature of sovereignty and whether the Māori signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi intended to transfer sovereignty.
The first stage of the report was released in November 2014, and found that hapu chiefs in Northland never agreed to give up their sovereignty when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Although the Crown intended to negotiate the transfer of sovereignty through the Treaty, the chiefs’ understanding of the agreement was they were only ceding the power for the Crown to control Pākehā and protect Māori.
WAI 2700 claims concerning Mana Wāhine, which show prejudice to wāhine Māori as a result of treaty breaches by the Crown. The first hearings with the Tribunal were heard in July 2021.