Otakou Marae's Waitangi festival

Each year the Ngai Tahu Treaty Festival altenates between the three papatipu marae closest to the three places where Ngai Tahu rangatira signed Te Tiriti. Te Rau Aroha Marae in Motupohue, Bluff. Otakou Marae near Dunedin, and Onuku Marae on Banks Peninsula. Today it will host the Ngai Tahu treaty festival, Edward Ellison is the Upoko of Te Runanga o Otakou.