Haka Global. S1. London.
Ngāti Rānana is a Māori cultural group based in London. It aims is to provide an environment to teach, learn and participate in Māori culture and to promote Aotearoa, through Māori culture. The group regularly performs throughout the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. I te tau 1820 Ko Hongi Hika nō Ngāpuhi te Māori tuatahi kia tae atu ki Ingarangi.
I ngā tau Kotahi mano, iwa rau i whakamanawatia ai ngā tira Māori ngā nū pepa o Ingarangi. Ka karore haere te tira ki Ingarangi ko Mākereti Papakura tētahi i mārena, ā, ka noho atu ki reira. Ngā tau rima tekau tērā tētehi rōpu nō Aotearoa i tīmata ai ngā Kapa Māori hei whakatairanga te ahurea Māori i te tau 1971 i Whakaīngoatia rātou ko Ngāti Rānana kei reira tonu rātou hei whakakanohi i a tātou i te tāone tonu o Rānana Ka kōrero ki a Charlie Panapa, kua waru tau ia e noho ana ki Rānana.
Ko Ōtene Hopa nō Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Waikato kua tipu ake ia i roto i te ao o te haka me tōna whānau o Hātea. He kāinga rua, ā Rānana. Ka peka atu a Mātai ki te kāinga o New Zealand House. Ka kōrero ki a Bruce Simpson nō Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toarangatira mō te noho tahi a ngā iwi katoa o te ao.
Mātai speaks to a Caribbean, Michael Russel who has been a part of Ngāti Rānana for about 5 and a half years. He loves the culture, artwork and likes to say he is a part of Ngāti Rānana. Chris Reynolds is an Englishman who is a Pou wha and teaches Taiaha in 2010 and been teaching mau rākau since 2008. Mātai speaks with Esther Kerr-Jessop QSM- Ngāi Tai, Ngāpuhi who came from Tōrere, Bay of Plenty, and moved to Rānana in 1957 on a radiography scholarship. She’s a Queens medal recipient and the matriarch of Ngāti Rānana. She speaks about Īnia Te Wīata, Selwyn Wilson and her sister Ella, the three of the five started Ngāti Rānana. Mātai speaks to Te Ataraiti Waretini Tūhourangi, Ngāti Wāhiao, Tainui, Te Rarawa who is the Ngāti Rānana leader who learnt how to weave online. They go and attend the Modern Māori Quartet and speak to Matariki Whatarau and James Tito. Members speak about the Ngāti Rānana whānau, Luke Classen Ngāti Porou and Sofara Aiono of Samoa, Tokelau and Granger Church of Te Arawa.