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Kōrero: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation

Ka ngaro te whenua Māori

Loss of Māori land

Ka whakaatu te mahere whenua nei i te rironga atu o ngā whenua o te Māori i Te Ika-a-Māui. Tatū ki te tau 1860, i te Māori tonu te nuinga o ngā whenua, hāunga a Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a Te Wairarapa, a Te Matau-a-Māui me ētahi takiwā o Te Tai Tokerau. Nō te tekau tau atu i 1860, ka hia miriona eka i raupatungia e te kāwanatanga, i riro rānei ki ngā rauhanga a te Kōti Whenua Māori. I waenganui i ngā tau 1890 me 1920, hāunga ngā whakahē a te Māori, he nui rawa atu ngā whenua ka hokona e te kāwanatanga. Kia tae ki te tau 1937, tino iti noa te whenua kei roto tonu i ngā ringaringa o te Māori.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Claudia Orange, Illustrated history of the Treaty of Waitangi. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2001, pp. 318–319

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Richard Boast, Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation – Land tenure and alienation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/map/19476/ka-ngaro-te-whenua-maori (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Richard Boast, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.

Comments

Huia Hohepa
27 July 2023
The Native Land Acts were about to get in to the full swing of things and from it, will emerge the Native Land Court, one of the main tools pakeha would use to seperate the native people from their land. The Native Land Court will be given enormous powers to Subdivided the lands and remove communal conscious ownership giving individual Title and Shares.
Elizabeth Mokaraka
12 October 2022
I would like to know where Mokaraka land was situated why taken
marie
21 June 2012
It would be interesting to see a comparative map showing the return of lands to date. Will it show a difference?
charmaine
14 January 2011
no way