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… More academic historians From the 1970s the output and range of history production in New Zealand expanded significantly. … Culture and Heritage). In 1984 the responsibility of the Waitangi Tribunal, which investigates Crown breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, was backdated to cover historical cases …
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Part of story: History and historians
… Direct communication Visiting London and meeting monarchs of the day reinforced the importance of royalty to Māori. … Queen Victoria was formally the British partner in the Treaty of Waitangi signed with chiefs in 1840, and from that flowed a …
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Part of story: Royal family
… when New Zealand became a British colony after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, until 1948, when the British Nationality and New …
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Part of story: Citizenship
… Law The New Zealand Ensign is the official flag of New Zealand under the Flags, Emblems, and … the New Zealand wars in 1863. During protest action at the Waitangi treaty grounds on Waitangi Day in 1995, Joseph Murphy …
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Part of story: Flags
… born about 1825. His parents were Ātareta Tuha, the sister of Āpihai Te Kawau , and Whanararei, from Te Taou hapū of … King movement, emphasised the benefits gained through the Treaty of Waitangi. Tūhaere was among those who responded: 'The Treaty …
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… Tupu Atanatiu Taingākawa Te Waharoa was the second son of Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa and Pare Te Kanawa … confiscation, Māori self-determination, breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, and other matters. A non-committal response was …
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… Māori and Māori customary law – the customs and methods of governance by which Māori society was ordered. After the British Crown and Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the British presence increased strongly …
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Part of story: Law
… Ōrākei Home of the Ngāti Whātua tribe from the 1840s, when land sales … tribe sought redress for their land losses. A successful Treaty of Waitangi claim in 1991 awarded the Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… As the realities of life in the bigger centres hit home, many Māori people … in schools and more than symbolic acknowledgement of the Treaty of Waitangi. It also initiated annual protests over Crown …
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Part of story: Urban Māori
… Common law rights Many of the fundamental assumptions and principles of New Zealand … these common-law rights are not guaranteed. Where’s the treaty? The Treaty of Waitangi guaranteed Māori the rights of British subjects, …
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Part of story: Human rights
… by Māori and non-Māori alike. He was a prominent leader of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei in central Auckland and chairman of … may be remembered best for his translation of te Tiriti o Waitangi, the Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi, from a Māori perspective, at a time when …
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… concepts Traditional Māori society did not have a concept of absolute ownership of land. Whānau (extended families) … became a British colony. By early 1840, on the eve of the Treaty of Waitangi, Europeans claimed to own more than 66 million …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… it difficult (and occasionally fatal) to retain the support of their own people while reaching out to another. … Reverend Henry Williams translated the English draft of the Treaty of Waitangi into Māori and explained it to Māori leaders. …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… Postal Union in 1892. These two organisations grew out of a need for the international regulation and organisation of communications systems. New Zealand’s treaty with Sweden Apart from the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s treaty list began with the Treaty of …
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Part of story: International law
… In 1987 Te Arawa made claims to the Waitangi Tribunal concerning alleged Crown indiscretions before 1900. Two decades of war (in the 1860s and 1870s), followed by … recognition of Te Arawa's mana (authority) over the lakes. Treaty settlements Te Arawa settled its treaty claim to the …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… tamariki whāngai or atawhai In Māori society, children were often brought up by relatives who were not their birth … the status of customary adoption. Adoption claim A Waitangi Tribunal claim was made on 1 September 2008 on … welfare systems. It stated that the Crown, in breach of its Treaty of Waitangi obligations, prejudicially affected Māori …
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Part of story: Adoption
… There are three types of land ownership in New Zealand: Crown land belongs to the … but collectively by all members of a hapū or iwi. Treaty of Waitangi From the first days of European settlement in New …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… The executive branch The executive branch of government, led by cabinet, executes (administers) the … to withhold it the recognition and reinterpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi in legislation from 1987 enabled enforcement of … The rise and bridling of executive power …
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Part of story: Constitution
… (probably kahikatea) beside the Waihou River with the help of Māori. Other ships visited between 1798 and 1801, taking … Māori became skilled sawyers and traders. Timber and the Treaty of Waitangi In the mid-1830s, over 30% of the North Island’s …
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Part of story: Logging native forests
… Like many of the North Island tribes, Te Whakatōhea initially welcomed … With the arrival of the missionaries and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, a generation experienced peace. The …
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Part of story: Te Whakatōhea