Part of the whenua Ngāti Kahukuraawhitia wants to purchase.
Photo: RNZ / Meriana Johnsen
Ngāti Kahukuraawhitia wants to purchase 182 hectares by the Waiohine river in the Wairarapapa to build a papakāinga for their descendants to live on.
The the Give-a-Little has raised over $40,000 dollars in just a day, but it is a race against time to pull the money together before tenders close Tuesday afternoon.
It would be incredibly special for Ngāti Kahukuraawhitia descendant, Carlene Te Tau, to have the land back. It ll be like being embraced by our people and being able to say, we haven t forgotten and we re trying to hold on fast to what they gave us, Te Tau said.