Lecture 17 - The Waitangi Tribunal and Treaty Settlements

Question 1

1975 Māori Land March

Answer 1

-Te Rōpu o te Matakite -organising committee of the

-1975 Land March on Parliament.

-Started at Te Hapua (Northland) ended at Wellington.

-Whina Cooper was prominent in the march.

-Forced the Labour Government to pass legislation that set up the Waitangi Tribunal

Question 2

Whina Cooper

Answer 2

-Prominent in the land march (1975)

-Involved in maori women’s league
-> helped with the welfare of maori people in the aftermath of urbanisation

-She walked all the way from cape regna to wellington to protest

-Note: Different time 1975 -> old people were expected to sit around and do nothing

Question 3

Bastion Point

Answer 3

-Ngāti Whātua and other protestors take a stand in respect to Ngāti Whātua’s last piece of land at Orakei in Auckland.

• In 1977 protesters occupied Bastion Point, after the announcement of a housing development on land once
  belonging to Ngāti Whātua.

-After 506 days the police and army arrived en masse, to remove them.

Question 4

Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975

Answer 4

Section 6

Māori must claim that they have been
-prejudicially affected by the Crown
-and which the Crown’s actions or omissions
-were inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi

Question 5

Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act 1985

Answer 5

-Allowed the Tribunal to consider claims prior to 1975

-Claims “flood” into the Tribunal

Question 6

Waitangi Tribunal hears the Bastion Point case first: Orakei Report (1987)

Answer 6

• Daming towards the Government actions of taking Ngāti Whātua’s land over a century
• In breach of Principles of the Treaty
• “Duty of active protection”

Question 7

Treaty Settlements with Māori

Answer 7

-1995 Settles with Waikato-Tainui for $150m

-Queen Elizabeth II delivers the apology to Tainui and signs the Tainui Raupatu Bill 1995

Question 8

1997 ngai tahu settlement

Answer 8

150 million