

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Talk: Helen Brown on Kā Whakatauraki
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Event Description**: Talk: Helen Brown on Kā Whakatauraki

Join Helen Brown, principal advisor of the Ngāi Tahu Archive, as she discusses the documents which were the key evidence at the heart of Te Kerēme, the Ngāi Tahu Claim, for 150 years. 

Between 1844 and 1864, most of Te Waipounamu – 34.5 million acres – was ‘sold’ to the Crown in exchange for what Ngāi Tahu rakatira later described as the “crumbs that fell from the white man’s table.” In negotiating these ten large-scale land purchases Crown officials offered Ngāi Tahu miserly sums in payment, applied time pressure, described land boundaries with ambiguity, and threatened to purchase territory from other iwi who were not the rightful owners. 

For the first time since their signing in the mid-1800s, Kā Whakatauraki: The Promises brings together the Ngāi Tahu deeds, the ten contractual agreements by which the Crown acquired more than half the land mass of New Zealand to make it available for British colonisation.


Free Entry
Wednesday 28 January at 6pm
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū


Image credit: Ngāi Tahu Deeds Map c.1986. Annotated printed topographic map on laminated paper with calico backing. On loan from Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Ngaitahu Maori Trust Board Collection, Ngāi Tahu Archive.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Christchurch
- **state**: CA
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
- **lat**: -43.530513400917
- **long**: 172.63103728487
- **full address**: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 312 Montreal St, Christchurch Central, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand, Christchurch

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- **organizer**: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (https://allevents.in/org/christchurch-art-gallery-te-puna-o-waiwhetū/26017107)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 312 Montreal St, Christchurch Central, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand, Christchurch
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