Tow Workshop - Legal Foundations (LAWS110)

Laws110

Workshop

8 May

Treaty of Waitangi Workshop

Aotahi

Timeline of Main events of the Ngai Tahu claim till today

Kemps deed- 1848

Before- Maori had land

1844- Otakou Purshase

1844-

Then Kemps Purchase

1849- Port Cooper and Port Levy

Akaroa

North Canterbury etc.

Crown paid for entire South Island= 14,750 pounds – c.80% of South Island

= equivalent today= 1.7 million

Kemps Purchase

• Crown set aside 1/10 for reserves for iwi, schools and hospitals for iwi= it did not happen. Excludes Ngai Tahu and Maori from participating in a land based economy

Crowns failure to do this

Ngai Tahu became a impoverished and landless people which equalled the need for an urban drift= a need for income.

Land that was bought off iwi was onsold, settlers had an asset base, Maori could not pariticpate on same level as settlers

Legislation meant that Maori had barriers in regaining place in economy.

7 generations from first claim until the settlement

Ngai Tahu trust board- put own savings and time into the process, significant

The iwi had built up a thriving industry

Treaty of Waitangi was seen as a convienant arrangement between two equals

4 years after- the signing of treaty- negotiations1844- 1864- the ten deeds of purchase= alienated,

1844-1864- ten deeds of purchase

Letter to queen= call out the Crown for not doing good on the undertakings of the deeds of purchase= ignored

Lodged in 1849 ??

Smith FNM Commission- enquire into kemps purchase- look into the claims of te kere

Took records of those that were witnessed, mahinga kai and the associated things with food giving. It was sympathetic towards Ngai Tahu claim we have a change in government, John Price – minister of … affairs- did not continue work

1868- government put up barriers to justice. Law to prevent courts from hearing and making decision in court about it- Ngai Tahu … Act

Did not stop iwi from pursuing

1887- Alexander McKay report

South Island Landless Native Act- protect people who had their land taken from them, 1889- recommended that land be set aside for natives who are landless, re-establish land base for iwi. His recommendations were ignored by government

Land allocated to people- land was marshlands, clifftops, Maori were allocated to land that had no connection to their hapu, South Island to bottom of south island

Mckay- honourable- issues today

1925- Ngai Tahu beneficiary list- who is able to be registered as a member of Ngai Tahu today- who can claim themselves as benefices of settlement= resolted in the blue book

1929- census established blue book, anyone that can connect to this, and connected to those in...