Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 24, 2023 14:42:27 GMT 12
Wayne Ryburn: ARTICLE 6 - EXPOSING HISTORY CURRICULUM MYTHS
The 5th Myth: That the government insisted that Waikato Maori sell their land as they were prospering. This section looks at how land was purchased following 1860, and the reason for the Native Land Acts of 1862/65 and the Native Land Court.
With regard to land purchases after 1860, land was purchased from Chiefs as individuals or collective tribal leaders. In 1858 there was an attempt to make individual title by the Native Territorial Rights Bill, but this was disallowed by the British Government. It was done in anticipation of the Native Land Court. This called for Maori land to be divided into individual titles, so those willing to sell land could do so. However customary interests were intertwined, so it was impossible to sell without a consensus.
Governor Browne’s statement in March 1859, that land under dispute would not be purchased, played into Wiremu Kingi’s hand - it gave him a right to veto land sales.
In 1862, the Native Land Court was established, designed to individualise Maori title, a compromise between land held in custom by chiefs who looked after tribal interests based on Maori understandings of custom. Once customary ownership was identified it became an individualised title to a distinctive block of land.
The aim was to purchase land, identify the claimants to purchase land from, and to leave claimants on smaller reserves. This meant the creation of undivided Native title to the land to be either kept, sold or leased, that was recognized by the Crown.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/wayne-ryburn-article-6-exposing-history.html
The 5th Myth: That the government insisted that Waikato Maori sell their land as they were prospering. This section looks at how land was purchased following 1860, and the reason for the Native Land Acts of 1862/65 and the Native Land Court.
With regard to land purchases after 1860, land was purchased from Chiefs as individuals or collective tribal leaders. In 1858 there was an attempt to make individual title by the Native Territorial Rights Bill, but this was disallowed by the British Government. It was done in anticipation of the Native Land Court. This called for Maori land to be divided into individual titles, so those willing to sell land could do so. However customary interests were intertwined, so it was impossible to sell without a consensus.
Governor Browne’s statement in March 1859, that land under dispute would not be purchased, played into Wiremu Kingi’s hand - it gave him a right to veto land sales.
In 1862, the Native Land Court was established, designed to individualise Maori title, a compromise between land held in custom by chiefs who looked after tribal interests based on Maori understandings of custom. Once customary ownership was identified it became an individualised title to a distinctive block of land.
The aim was to purchase land, identify the claimants to purchase land from, and to leave claimants on smaller reserves. This meant the creation of undivided Native title to the land to be either kept, sold or leased, that was recognized by the Crown.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/wayne-ryburn-article-6-exposing-history.html