Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 17, 2018 17:27:27 GMT 12
PURCHASING FORMER MĀORI SCHOOL RESTORES AN INJUSTICE, SAYS IWI
The purchase of the former Turakina Māori Girls' College is restoring land to a Rangitīkei iwi that was once taken from them, its chairman says.
Chairman Pāhia Turia believed their tender was successful because the school's vendors were moved by the iwi's transaction with the Crown following the Treaty of Waitangi signing.
The Government's Deed of Settlement states the ancestral block of land was sold to the Crown in 1849, expecting trade and other benefits. However, these benefits did not eventuate and European farming destroyed traditional food-gathering sites.
www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/102814846/purchasing-former-mori-school-restores-an-injustice-says-iwi
The purchase of the former Turakina Māori Girls' College is restoring land to a Rangitīkei iwi that was once taken from them, its chairman says.
Chairman Pāhia Turia believed their tender was successful because the school's vendors were moved by the iwi's transaction with the Crown following the Treaty of Waitangi signing.
The Government's Deed of Settlement states the ancestral block of land was sold to the Crown in 1849, expecting trade and other benefits. However, these benefits did not eventuate and European farming destroyed traditional food-gathering sites.
www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/102814846/purchasing-former-mori-school-restores-an-injustice-says-iwi