About us
Our eponymous tipuna is Tahupōtiki.
The purpose is to gather DNA testers of Kāi Tahu heritage to a safe place to comprehensively discuss DNA results and whakapapa.
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Banner image: "NZ Southern Alps viewed from Mount Cook Village plains (Panorama)" (2009, Large 1600 size) by Neerav Bhatt on Flickr. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
Watson and Bridgeman are volunteer administrators and
do not have the legal rights, responsibilities, or liabilities of employees or contractors working for FamilyTreeDNA. Likewise, they are not professionally associated with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu or any similar entity. The project is entirely whānau-led.
As far as FamilyTreeDNA projects go, this one should serve as the base for research on subsumed iwi identities
including Kāti Māmoe, Kāti Wairaki, Waitaha (Te Waipounamu), Hawea,
Rapuwai, and other pre-Kāi Tahu groups of Te Waipounamu until there is
need for a second project.