Safeguarding bar still Wayne's world

BY CLAIRE CONNELL - The Marlborough Express

To have these people returned is like having the battery put back in [the iwi].Wayne Abbott Kaitiaki (guardian) of the burial site

Tupuna rest at home

'A celebration ... for us all to live together'

BY CLAIRE CONNELL - The Marlborough Express

Rangitane reburied their ancestors at Wairau Bar yesterday, 70 years after their bones were exhumed for science. Now they are looking forward to regaining ownership of the burial site.

Taonga marks reburial at bar

BY CLAIRE CONNELL - The Marlborough Express

When Rangitane chairwoman Judith MacDonald leads her iwi to the Wairau Bar today, she will be wearing a necklace with a special link to one of her ancestors being reburied "Aunty", who died 700 years ago.

Ritual grounds young people

BY CLAIRE CONNELL - The Marlborough Express

For one Marlborough family, yesterday's repatriation ceremony was a chance for a younger generation to learn about their culture.