I mua tonu i te maroketanga o te waituhi i te whakaaetanga o Ngāi Tahu kia hokona ōna whenua ki te kāwanatanga, ka tū tētahi o ngā whatinga ture tuatahi o te Tiriti o Waitangi. Whai muri tata ko te aruaru o Ngāi Tahu i ngā kerēme i te whatinga o te kāwanatanga i ōna kupu taurangi. I te wāhanga tuatahi o te rau tau atu i 1900 ka tīmata te whakatika haere i ngā hapa. Heoi nō te whakamanatanga rā anō o Te Rōpu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi i ngā kerēme takitahi o Ngāi Tahu i te tekau tau atu i 1990, kātahi ka whakatauhia te kerēme whānui. He whakaahua tēnei o Charles Croft rāua ko Tā Tīpene O’Regan i te tau 1998 e mātaki ana i te whakaturenga o te Pire Kerēme Whakataunga o Ngāi Tahu.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1998/3025/33
by Craig Simcox
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