Ngāti Hinerangi

Ngāti Hinerangi is a Māori iwi of New Zealand, based in Matamata, with 4 marae (Hinerangi Tawhaki, Te Ohaki, Tangata and Tamapango) at Okauia. As well as Matamata, Te Rohe o Kōperu (Ngāti Hinerangi area of interest) includes Te Tapui (a hill west of Matamata), Peria, Puketutu (near Kiwitahi), the Kaimai Range, Tanners Point, Rereatukahia, Aongatete, Apata, Te Paeoturawaru, Pahoia, Ōmokoroa, Huharua, Motuhoa Island, the inner reaches of Tauranga harbour, Pukehou on the Wairoa River, Haukapa, Ngāumuwahine, Whenua-a-kura and Hinuera.

A 2021 Treaty Settlement gave $8.1m, returned 14 sites of cultural significance and apologised for confiscation of 100,000 ha (250,000 acres) in Tauranga in 1863 and for the invasion of villages in 1867, the 'bush campaign', when government forces destroyed the crops and homes of those opposing surveys of the confiscated area, to the south-west of Tauranga.