Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 5, 2018 16:08:00 GMT 12
MANA MOTUHAKE FOR IWI TO PURSUE
The country’s leading Maori jurist says mana motuhake or self determination needs to be tackled on a tribal level.
Justice Joe Williams has been promoted to the Court of Appeal after a decade on the High Court bench.
Justice Williams says the settlement process in New Zealand has been much quicker than in Australia or Canada, which are dealing with similar legacies of colonialism.
Whether it will lead to mana motuhake remains to be seen.
“I think the tribal runanga are still working out how to build that (mana motuhake) and it’s a matter of attitude as much as it a matter of real power on the ground and iwi are still working out their attitude to that on the ground and I think we are still a couple of generations away from resolving what the end product will look like,”....
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The country’s leading Maori jurist says mana motuhake or self determination needs to be tackled on a tribal level.
Justice Joe Williams has been promoted to the Court of Appeal after a decade on the High Court bench.
Justice Williams says the settlement process in New Zealand has been much quicker than in Australia or Canada, which are dealing with similar legacies of colonialism.
Whether it will lead to mana motuhake remains to be seen.
“I think the tribal runanga are still working out how to build that (mana motuhake) and it’s a matter of attitude as much as it a matter of real power on the ground and iwi are still working out their attitude to that on the ground and I think we are still a couple of generations away from resolving what the end product will look like,”....
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTgxODA.html