Indigenous intellectual property 1998 and 2006, the Ngati Toa iwi attempted to trademark the Ka Mate haka and to forbid its use by commercial organisations without their permission. The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand turned their claim down in 2006, since "Ka Mate" had achieved wide recognition in New Zealand and abroad as representing New Zealand as a whole and not a particular trader. In 2009, as a part of a wider settlement of grievances, the New Zealand government agreed to: However, a survey of nineteenth-century New Zealand newspapers found Ka Mate was used by tribes from other parts of New Zealand,
Toa Fepuleai Toa Fepuleai Gasetoa Fepuleai (known as Toa or Gus Fepuleai) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand . Fepuleai was born in Western Samoa and attended Seddon High School where he played at fullback in the school's rugby union first XV. Fepuleai joined the Richmond rugby league club in the Auckland Rugby League competition. In 1976 he won the Tetley Trophy as top try scorer. He made his New Zealand national rugby league team debut in 1978, on the wing. In 1979 Fepuleai played for both Auckland and New Zealand Māori against the touring Great