17 Nov 2014

Te Manu Korihi News for 17 November 2014

From Te Manu Korihi, 8:48 am on 17 November 2014

A Ngati Hine leader, Pita Tipene, says a Waitangi Tribunal finding that Maori didn't conceed their sovereignty in the Treaty is validation that the Crown cannot bulldoze over hapu. Meanwhile, a Tainui representative, Robin Whanga, who was at the Waitangi Marae to hear about the Waitangi Tribunal's long awaited report, says the Tribunal finding is important for the whole country. The leader of a Ngai Tahu runaka - or runanga - says the South Island iwi has been 'caught napping' over the law that replaced the Foreshore and Seabed Act. The formation of a pivotal modern Maori visual arts group 25 years ago has been celebrated in a new book that chronicles its development and the artists it nurtured.