Renowned anthropologist and historian, Dame Professor Anne Salmond, takes viewers on an adventure through time in the second series of ARTEFACT – premiering on Māori Television on Sunday 15 August 2021 at 7.30 PM. In the four-part documentary, Dame .
The new combined district plan for the West Coast - now under construction - will recognise the land rights and rangatiratanga of Poutini Ngāi Tahu by creating Māori purpose zones on ancestral whenua.
The Open Bay Islands off the coast of Haast are among areas that may be recognised as coming under the land rights and rangatiratanga of Poutini Ngāi Tahu.
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Councils and iwi working on Te Tai o Poutini Plan last week scrutinised the draft rules for the zones after approving the overall objective in February.
The Māori purposes zone is defined as an area used mainly to meet Māori cultural and development needs, including residential and commercial activities. The zoning enables Māori to assert tino rangatiratanga (chiefly authority) over the land within it, and where an iwi management plan is in place it takes precedence over any default rules.