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Kōrero: Take whenua – Māori land tenure

Te whakapapa o Te Meihana Tākihi

Nā Te Meihana Tākihi te whakapapa nei i whakatakoto hei tautoko i tana kerēme ki ētahi whenua ki Pakōwhai i Te Matau-a-Māui i te tau 1889. Hei ko tāna, ka whai take a ia ki taua whenua mā te take tupuna, te ahi kā, te take tuku me te raupatu. Ka heke tana whakapapa me āna tika ki te whenua i a Tāraia, heke iho ki a Hāwea. He mea nui te whakapapa i te Kōti Whenua Māori, hei tautoko i te take tupuna.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Spencer William von Sturmer Notes on Native Land Courts

Reference: qMS-1936

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Meredith, Take whenua – Māori land tenure – Discovery, ancestral right and conquest, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/18384/te-whakapapa-o-te-meihana-takihi (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Meredith, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.

Comments

Sonya Ash Pryor
21 August 2015
Judge Spencer William Von Sturmer is in my family tree. See Family search.