The Waitangi Tribunal

The Waitangi Tribunal
Author: Janine Hayward
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2016-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1877242624

The Waitangi Tribunal sits at the heart of the Treaty settlement process, with a unique remit to investigate claims and recommend settlements. But although the claims process has been hugely controversial, little has been written about the Tribunal itself. These essays, by leading academics, lawyers and researchers, successfully fill that gap, examining the Tribunal’s role in reshaping Māori identity and society, the Tribunal’s future mission, and its contribution to ideas of justice and reparation. This perceptive analysis of a key institution is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand Treaty settlements. Contributors: Paul Hamer Geoff Melvin Grant Phillipson Richard Boast Tom Bennion Stephanie Milroy Jacinta Ruru Deborah Edmunds John Dawson Richard Price Debra Fletcher Evan Te Ahu Poata-Smith Donna Hall Andrew Sharp

The State of Maori Rights

The State of Maori Rights
Author: Margaret Mutu
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1775502805

The State of Maori Rights brings together a set of articles written between 1994 and 2009. It places on record the Maori view of events and issues that took place over these years, issues that have been more typically reported to the general public from a ‘mainstream’ media perspective. It is an important documentation of these fifteen years of New Zealand history, recording the assertion of Maori rights as the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, focusing on Maori issues and experiences and written from a Maori perspective. The reviews demonstrate the ongoing settling of grievances against the Crown for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, the solutions Maori have advocated and the benefits to the country when Maori advice on these matters is followed. Key issues include: - the 1994 ‘fiscal envelope’ - the 50,000-strong protest march against foreshore and seabed - Pakeha media attacks on Maori MPs and Maori initiatives. Maori success stories are also acknowledged such as Michael Campbell, Robert Hewitt, Willie Apiata and films such as Whale Rider.

The Value of the Maori Language

The Value of the Maori Language
Author: Rawinia Higgins
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1775502821

Twenty-five years ago the Māori Language Act was passed, but research still finds that the Māori language is dying. This collection looks at the state of the language since the Act, how the language is faring in education, media, texts and communities and what the future aspirations for the language are.

Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price

Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price
Author: M P K Sorrenson
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1869408101

For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson – one of New Zealand’s leading historians and himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent – has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. In this new book, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into a powerful whole – covering topics from the origins of Maori (and Pakeha ideas about those origins), through land purchases and the King Movement of the nineteenth century, and on to twentieth-century politics and the new history of the Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout his career, Sorrenson has been concerned with the international context for New Zealand history while also attempting to understand and explain Maori conceptions and Pakeha ideas from the inside. And he has been determined to tell the real story of Maori losses of land and their political responses as, in the face of Pakeha colonisation, they became a minority in their own country. Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land is the Price is a powerful history of Maori and Pakeha in New Zealand.

Reparations for Indigenous Peoples

Reparations for Indigenous Peoples
Author: Federico Lenzerini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2008-01-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199235600

In this book, a group of renowned legal experts and activists investigate the right of indigenous peoples to reparations for breaches of their individual and collective rights.

Histories, Power and Loss

Histories, Power and Loss
Author: William Hosking Oliver
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 1877242209

This work is about what people do when they produce histories about the past, and what some New Zealanders have done when they have recounted parts of their country's past. The contributors write of legal claims and constitutional doubt, and document some of the claims process and its consequences.

Whatiwhatihoe

Whatiwhatihoe
Author: David McCan
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781877266089

Whatiwhatihoe investigates a complex bundle of issues often referred to simply as a tribal "resource claim" but that really concern factors spanning the total social, political, and economic spectrum. Whatiwhatihoe tracks the origins and history of the Waikato raupatu claim, focusing particularly on the ways the claim has been handled.

Hīkoi

Hīkoi
Author: Aroha Harris
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781869691011

What have Maori been protesting about? What has been achieved? This book provides an overview of the contemporary Maori protest 'movement', a summary of the rationale behind the actions, and a wonderful collection of photographs of the action u the protests, the marches and the toil behind the scenes. And it provides a glimpse of the fruits of that protest u the Waitangi Tribunal and the opportunity to prepare, present and negotiate Treaty settlements; Maori language made an official language; Maori-medium education; Maori health providers; iwi radio and, in 2004, Maori television.