Tino Rangatiratanga
Maori Independence
The words “Tino Rangatiratanga” were used in both the 1835 Declaration of Maori Independence and the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi to denote absolute sovereignty - the power to make and enforce laws - in Aotearoa.
This right, in both documents, was reserved to the rangatira (Chiefs) of the hapu (subtribes) of nga iwi Maori.
Basic Introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi
By Joe Davies, Arena
Farewell to Syd Jackson
A collection of tributes, articles etc.
UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
A collection of items, articles etc relating to the DRIP.
Seabed
and Foreshore Issues
Articles, News, Views etc
Maori and the Anti-Terrorism Laws:
Where to from Here?
Public Meeting in Christchurch Wed Nov 14 with Speaker Moana Jackson
Bill to Kill the Treaty
How to make a submission
Water Ownership and the Wider Context
Before we consider this issue, let's put it into the wider context of government policy.
Mike Smith
Row brews over who owns NZ's water
The Government is headed for a clash with Maori over who owns New Zealand's fresh water - a row that could become as heated as the battle over the foreshore and seabed.
Vernon Small, The Dominion Post
Landcorp Sale of Maori Land Blocks Deferred for a Year
The sale by Landcorp of two blocks of land significant to Maori has been deferred for a year.
Radio NZ
School sale withdrawn as Maori protest grows
A fresh land occupation has sparked another backdown, this time over plans
to sell an empty Taranaki school.
Tracy Watkins, The Dominion Post
Tribe Occupies $10m Coromandel Landcorp Block
An 1100ha block of prime publicly owned Coromandel land worth more than $10 million has been occupied by Maori opposed to plans to sell it by tender.
Jon Stokes, NZ Herald
Coromandel land sale on shaky ground
The proposed sale of a $10 million block of prime Coromandel land is on shaky ground amid claims that state agencies have mishandled the deal. Hauraki Maori have occupied the 1100ha block to stop the Landcorp sale, wanting the land to settle outstanding Treaty claims.
By Jon Stokes, NZ Herald
Mohawk Prisoner Challenges Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts
Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to
the court that the colonial Canadian system has no jurisdiction over him. When the judge walked into the courtroom for the pre-trial hearing of Trevor Miller, and the bailiff called "all rise", only the
cops and the lawyers stood up. When Trevor Miller walked in, however, the packed courthouse stood up, and they remained on their feet throughout the proceedings.
Fiona Becker
Indymedia
Resisting the gene raiders
The genetic exploitation of indigenous
peoples - and how they are fighting back
Aroha Te Pareake Mead
New Internationalist
Complex consultation process may send research overseas
Valuable New Zealand research could head overseas if complicated consultation with Maori groups means research is delayed, the Waitangi Tribunal was told yesterday. Association of Crown Research Institute's executive director Anthony
Scott, who addressed the tribunal hearing a claim by Maori to native flora and fauna, said industry could be hurt if scientists saw overseas as a better option for research.
NZPA
The spinmeisters of Landco let slip their plans for the Ngunguru Sandspit a little earlier than they intended to yesterday when their latest newsletter was briefly posted on their website.
Editorial from the Northern Advocate and also a Media Release from Whangarei Forest and Bird
Tribe Puts a Stop to Logging in State Forest
A Maori tribe has blocked logging in a state-owned forest claiming the
presence of sacred burial sites, which it cannot identify.
Anne Beston, NZ Herald
A Northland hapu says it wants to withdraw from the Treaty of Waitangi.
A leader of the sub-tribe, Matarahurahu, says their ancestor, Hone Heke, was the first chief to sign the Treaty in 1840, which gives them the right to withdraw.
Radio NZ and Scoop (2 items)
Tribes Demand Control of Water
Some of New Zealand's biggest tribes are drawing up plans to take on the
Government over control of the country's water.
The Weekend Herald understands that leaders of Tainui, Ngai Tahu, Tuwharetoa and Whanganui met on Thursday to develop a strategy to combat the exclusion of Maori from control of the country's fresh water.
Jon Stokes, NZ Herald
Eight Arrested in Hapu's Bid for Far North Farm
Another attempt by a group of Far North Maori to establish physical ownership of a large sheep and cattle station near Mangonui was turned back by police yesterday. Eight members of Ngati Aukiwa hapu
were arrested as they walked up a driveway to the entrance of the manager's residence of Stony Creek Station, 10km south of Mangonui.
Tony Gee, (unattributed news media report)
Analysis of Waitangi Tribunal Report on WAI 262
On 3 October the Waitangi Tribunal released a further interim report on ANZTPA. It was an
application for certain urgent interim recommendations. It did relate to the Crown proposal to
introduce legislation to create a Trans-Tasman Therapeutic Products Authority in New Zealand
(ANZTPA). The argument revolved around the proposal to regulate the practice of dispensing Maori
medicine or rongoa Maori and that this was without adequate consultation. It is beyond the scope of
this report to analyse that judgement and in the end it turned on very narrow criteria relating to
the applicable principles to grant urgent recommendations.
Dr. Wallace Bain
Tribunal hears final Wai 262 submissions
NZPA
Citizens Astounded At Govt Greenwash
Press Release: Takutai Moana Poneke Collective
Traditional remedies extinguished by Govt proposal
Press Release: Ngati Whatua
Labour's Maori MPs Told to Toe the Line
Ruth
Berry, NZ Herald
Maori trust claims 'right' to British passport
Northern Advocate
Bill Kills Treaty Claims
www.stuff.co.nz
Treaty claim deadline creeps into law
By Tracy Watkins
Minority Recognition Worth Pondering
NZ Herald editorial on UN Rapporteur
The United Nations On The Foreshore:
A Summary Of The Report Of The UN Special Rapporteur
Moana Jackson
UN Special Rapporteur's Report Available
Peace Movement Aotearoa
The Fate of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Remains in Question
International Indian Treaty Council Media Release
Maori push over Treaty may end up in court
Mai Chen
Speech at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi, 6 February 2006
Jane Kelsey
NZ Position Undermines NZ's Integrity Says Amnesty International
Pacific Centre for Participatory Democracy
Defending Treaty Rights at the UN
Sherri Norris, International Indian Treaty Council
Sign the Petition on NZ's Position on the UN Declaration
PCPD
New Zealand Nukes Indigenous Peoples Right to Self-Determination
Kent Lebsock, American Indian Law Alliance
Indigenous Right Movement Alarmed by NZ
Media Release from the American Indian Law Alliance
NZ Govt Poses Threat to Indigenous Peoples
Letter from the American Indian Law Alliance
Vandals Attack Monument
Maori Independence
graffito upsets local Council
Lee Matthews, Manawatu Evening Standard
Maori
tap into water rights
Daryl McIntosh
Maori
group brings Treaty case for loss of Wellington
Jonathan Milne, Dominion Post
A
Race-Based State
Hawaii wants a segregation that
would boggle your mind
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review
Bureaucrats
and Indians
John Tierney, Crow Agency, Montana
'War
on Terror' Has Indigenous People in Its Sights
Gustavo Gonzalez, Inter Press Service News Agency
Indigenous
Peoples Forum Report
United Nations
Petition
Opposing the Genographic Project
sign on here
The
Pacification of Contemporary Maori Protest
Matt Russell
National
Hui of Maori Leaders Called
Taumata Kaumatua o Ngaouhi Press Statement
Indigenous
Peoples Oppose National Geographic & IBM Genetic Research Project
Press Release: Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
Peace
Festival at Parihaka
David Bruce, www.stuff.co.nz
Maori
want control of own destiny
Outcomes from the recent Hui Taumata
Ruth Berry, NZ Herald
Land
Dispute at Mt Thomas
Robyn Bristow, The Press
Ups
and Downs of the Maori Year
Rawiri Taonui, The Press
Ngati
Aukiwa defy eviction from sheep station
- unattributed media source