Tuturau: The only inland reserve set aside for Māori during the Murihiku sale stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The land taken from the iwi spans from Kimbolton to Ōtaki. Many iwi say they were non sellers and the signatures on the land deals were not taken legitimately. The confederation, which has about 30,000 members in Manawatū, Horowhenua and Kāpiti, describes the purchase of about 97,000 hectares as one of the most fraudulent in New Zealand history. Financial compensation is sought, along with the restoration of original Maori names for streets, lakes and reserves. Crown land is also expected to be returned to iwi.
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The Waitangi Tribunal sat at Te Tikanga Marae, above the Rangitīkei River, near Halcombe in December.
A cancer researcher, she said on average Māori died seven years earlier than non Māori, the cancer rate was 20 per cent higher and the death rate was twice as high. It was a running joke how Palmerston North Hospital was a Ngāti Kauwhata hospital because there were so many whānau members there. Anti-racist practices needed to be implemented in the health system to improve Māori health, because Māori had consistently high levels of deprivation, she said. “For every day there is inaction, for every day there is no redress, it becomes harder for the deprivation points to move.
Emery said Featherston was “an unprincipled corrupter of proper process to suit his own ends” and a “talented but perverted propagandist”. “He chose to be willingly ignorant of those moral and legal norms that Māori needed to retain the lands they wished to keep . The consequence for the hapū of the Ngāti Raukawa confederation was they became one of the most landless tribes in the country. “This was to put Ngāti Raukawa behind nearly every other tribe in maintaining their culture and in building the economic base that was needed for their survival.” Emery said the Raukawa people didn’t want to sell, but were led to believe there was nothing they could do except sell so they could secure land reserves, but it didn t eventuate.
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