Our Grievances
The Crown has adopted a process which may settle some Treaty grievances for some groups – but by doing so creates new Treaty grievances in the process.
The Crown proposes Te Tau Ihu Iwi settlements that will cover our WAI56 breaches below. But these WAI56 injustices are so clear and severe and affect our hapu, that a separate settlement is needed for Crown failure to provide the Tenths Reserves and the mismangement of our hapu lands.
Our approach through this process has been to keep everyone informed each step of the way.
The Crown’s approach is unprincipled and is not consistent with the aim of formulating durable and robust Treaty settlements.
There are three broad categories of Treaty breaches, which must be addressed in order to achieve the settlement of our claims.
Inadequate land in the Tenths Reserves
|
|
Crown mismanagement
|
Crown mismanagement which allowed: inadequate and inferior lands to be reserved, the unnecessary and unjust removal of land from the Reserves into private ownership or for public works when other lands were available without consents or compensation, the reallocation of Tenths land as Occupation Reserves; the sale of 1145 acres of Tenths Reserve lands and the removal of 348 people from the owners’ roll, using income from the Tenths Reserves for other purposes than the benefit of the owners, lack of consultation and proper commercial actions to benefit the owners in administering the Tenths Reserves and the alienation of owners from the administration of their Reserves.
|
The imposition of the perpetual lease regime on Tenth Reserve land
|
The Crown allowed perpetual leases of Māori owned land without provision for protecting owners from uneconomic loss or recognition of the impact of alienation from their land. The perpetual lease regime has created enormous and ongoing problems which persist to the present day. |
Videos
|
Rore Stafford... |
