In recent decades as Ngati Porou have found ways to reassert our rangatiratanga we have also been able to reassert our role as kaitiaki, based on our own matauranga. As part of our negotiation of our Treaty Settlement in 2010 we were able to claim ‘dual authority’ with the Crown o...
It was not only ‘the market’ that Ngati Porou had to struggle with as we sought to grow our own economy. Pakeha settlement of the country put pressure on Maori land, and we were no exception. The wars of the 1860s were designed to change the balance of power, and immediate pressure...