Manu Korihi News for 25 October 2012

Monitoring of Maori achievement shows tangata whenua have failed to make gains in home ownership, household income, and attempts to increase the number of te reo Maori speakers; Kohanga supporters have told their governing body they want an apology from the Crown for the way it's treated Maori pre-schools; A project looking at Maori understandings of Maori art has been awarded more than six-hundred-thousand-dollars of research funding; The Chilean envoy to New Zealand says a waka expedition to Easter Island will also open the way for Maori to foster links with indigenous communities in South America.