At the Waitangi Tribunal, in the Ngāti Hikairo Closing Submissions 22 October 2014, “Meto Hopa applied the above metaphor of the spider’s web to the claims. Although this kōrero (talk) mentions the spider, it actually refers to a spider’s web, a māwhaiwhai or whare tukutuku. When the strands of a web are pulled at or shifted, it strains and weakens the web. It may break part of the web or destroy it completely”. (Wackrow, 2014, p. 75). While Meto Hopa used the above metaphor for boundaries that are crossed or adjusted, therefore creating changes to the ‘web’ which may strain or weaken it, I have likened the same metaphor to Māori genetic data testing and storage. Genomics is a result of whakapapa (genealogy) and tapu (sacredness) like our tribal boundaries. The more scientists extract, pull, and shift the genomic code around, the more the whakapapa is weakened, compromised, or destroyed. Māori social, cultural, economic, educational, health and political spectrum of voices is now moving into areas of customary intellectual property connection to whakapapa. The purpose of this doctorate thesis is to ascertain the connection between whakapapa obligation responsibility and the formation of Māori DNA and Genomic ownership.