Māori Value Report: Rangatiratanga
Enhance leadership and participation: People engaged in their communities
Rangatiratanga was used in Article 2 of the Māori language version of the Treaty to convey the idea of unqualified exercise of Māori chieftainship over their lands, villages and all their treasures. Rangatiratanga is often associated with sovereignty, leadership, autonomy to make decisions, and self-determination. This includes leadership within the whānau and community, as well as leadership within business and politics.
Key Indicators
Cultural
Rangatiratanga in the cultural sphere relates to stewardship of others, advocating for others and the community, doing the right thing for their people and ensuring wellbeing and generosity of spirit.
Māori parent representatives on school boards
Social
By managing, leading and investing in Māori entities, organisations and companies, Māori are able to have autonomy – by Māori, for Māori.
Māori participation and leadership
Environmental
Rangatiratanga is about caring for wāhī tapu and wāhī taonga (sacred places and objects) and ensuring co-governance and co-management of natural resources.
Co-governance arrangements between Māori and Auckland Council
Economic
Rangatiratanga in the social sphere is about empowering and providing people with the tools and skills to improve their circumstances and to participate in decision-making.
Māori voting in local elections
In the Rangatiratanga report, we discuss how Māori are increasingly applying rangatiratanga in their own organisations and communities, in democratic processes and in the economy.
The report confirms rangatahi (youth) leadership as an expression of rangatiratanga and a pre-condition for succession planning, and identifies the use of mātauranga Māori in resource management planning as an opportunity to strengthen rangatiratanga.