Manu Korihi News for 8 July 2011

Eight tribes have missed a self-imposed deadline to share one of the country's biggest forests between them; The Maori Party will consider a deal with Hone Harawira's new Mana Party at its executive council meeting this weekend; The Maori Language Commission says the crisis facing te reo is due to the government's failure to back a surge in Maori schools and pre-schools.