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Govt and Tuhoe sign $170m settlement

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Govt and Tuhoe sign $170m settlement

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Tears flowed at the ceremony

Tears flowed at the ceremony

The Government and Tuhoe have signed a deed of settlement that will give the North Island iwi $170 million and more control over Urewera National Park.

Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson says the settlement recognises serious Treaty of Waitangi breaches.

"Large scale confiscation of the best agricultural land, brutal military campaigns targeting Tuhoe settlements and later unjust land purchases are all crown behaviour that has made a harmonious relationship with Tuhoe impossible," he said on Friday at the signing ceremony in parliament.

"Tuhoe's history shows clearly why it is so important to settle genuine treaty grievances."

The settlement, which must now be ratified by all Tuhoe members, includes:

  • acknowledgements of breaches of the treaty;
  • an apology for those breaches;
  • an agreed historical account of the relationship between the Crown and Tuhoe;
  • a $170m commercial redress package;
  • a new management board for the national park with equal numbers of government and Tuhoe appointees.

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19/04/2013 8:58:48 p.m.

Adrian wrote:

Mike B the recent settlement is a treaty settlement between the Government (Crown) and Tuhoe. What's the confusion?

18/04/2013 11:42:38 a.m.

Stacey wrote:

I cant believe we live in a country still full of racisicm, and ignorance. but how could you understand the full extend of oppression and disempowerment, wake up people. money is the governments way of trying to make peace and still keep your land..When you have no link and connection to Papatuanuku, you may never understand or open your mind to see how theft and pillaging of Papa effects ones history and culture.

5/04/2013 6:36:32 a.m.

Mike B wrote:

@Adrian. My forefathers are Maori and European just like every other person who claims any type of Maori heritage. For there to have been treaty breaches Tuhoe would have to have been a signatory of the Treaty, they were not. In fact that is one of their reasons for wanting to create their own state within NZ. Soooo if they did not sign the treaty why are they being given a treaty settlement?

28/03/2013 9:55:04 p.m.

Adrian wrote:

Mike B if you are looking for a Treaty Breach then consider this. We Settler NZers and immigrants have been cohersed by the Crown to occupy stolen Maaori land and exercising ultimate authority over the land we know our forefathers stole and call NZ. Knowingly or not we are associates (accomplice) to a crime continuum that we try very hard to ignore. The British Empire deployed its troops to reek havoc on innocent Maaori communities and enforce carnaged stealing Maaori land in the process. Why can't we just give their land back Mike B? Our head of state has apologized for the historical injustices accepting wrong doing so why is it so important for you to negate what our ultimate leader has already confessed to? I suspect you need help to accept what our forefathers did on a scale unprecedented to marginal Maaori indiscretions in comparison. Despite the land acquisition that we illegitimate inherented stripping Maaori of authority (power & control) over their own territories also needs to be returned to them in retrospect of the overwhelming facts.

27/03/2013 8:15:50 p.m.

Mike B wrote:

Tuhoe seem to have duped Prime Minister John Key and Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson, who cites treaty breaches by the Crown but appears oblivious to breaches by Tuhoe. Tuhoe fought against the Government at Orakau in 1864 and were involved with East Coast tribes in a battle against pro-government Te Arawa at Maketu the same year. Is fighting against the government a treaty breach? (1) Tuhoe also sheltered anti-Crown fighter Te Kooti from 1869, fought with him against the government, and were involved in the raid on Ngati Pahauwera at Mohaka, murdering men, woman, and children, both settlers and Maori. Is that a treaty breach? (2) If Tuhoe argue that they did not sign the treaty so breached nothing, does this imply Crown-Tuhoe relations are not under the treaty? If so, why the settlement? Tuhoe are not poor. They received a £100,000 roads settlement in 1958 (3), one seventh of forestry land worth $149.6-million and rentals worth $223-million under the 2007 Treelords deal, an annual forestry cash flow of around $2-million (4), as well as an annual share of fisheries profit (5). The $170-million is on top of all that. Forget the settlement day tears. These claimants are laughing. Mike Butler Hawkes Bay

27/03/2013 4:19:34 p.m.

Lin wrote:

So everyone agrees that $15 million dollars to be spent on an ugly building is the way to start helping the Tuhoe people, bet that'll keep them warm during winter. I suppose the charges to the public that will certainly come will also keep the Hummers running. Was Tuhoe a peaceful tribe ? Did they do their share of killing/raping of peoples and taking of lands ?What makes what apparently happened so long ago and in another time to Tuhoe that says it's ok to give such an obscene payout.We need politicians with the guts to say enough. Not ones who live in the maori pocket.

25/03/2013 8:58:53 p.m.

Twentyseven wrote:

Good on you Tuhoe for not giving up. Tuhoe did not sign the treaty. What was taken away should have been given back many many years ago. Our Tipuna would be crying happy tears right now. You deserve it all after all that has happened.

24/03/2013 11:16:08 a.m.

Luke wrote:

Its better late than never for Ngai Tuhoe to recieve Justice through acknowledgement and compensation for what has been described by Tariana Turia as the Maori Holocaust. Thats right, ethnic cleansing. If you thought the Crown was "just" putting them in jail or confiscating land for nothing, read up on the facts. You will be horrified to find that our peachy account of “history” is rotten to the core. I wish all the best for Ngai Tuhoe and I hope there treaty settlement bill passes without delay!

24/03/2013 12:03:47 a.m.

John Hendricks wrote:

This is an utter disgrace, and is simply theft from the taxpayers of New Zealand. Such a "settlement" is anti-democratic and Finlayson is a traitor to his constituents. He should be made to account for his actions before a tribunal of NZ citizens.

23/03/2013 7:52:17 p.m.

Adrian wrote:

Congratulations Tuhoe! The NZ political community finally accepts Tuhoe as being an independent state unto yourselves. That's just Awesome! Hoping an apology will follow! ... insidious! is all I can describe as fashionable legalised white crime ... it's certainly worth remembering to understand the gravity of the ruling.