New Zealand 141 114: A powerful date for Maori, or just more Whitewash?
After another very long (and expensive) Tribunal, of the New Zealand Government, consisting of Judge Carrie Wainwright (Presiding), Professor Wharehuia Milroy, Dame Margaret Bazley and Professor Ranginui up Walker, and was supported by consulting historians and Tribunal Member Dr.. Robyn Anderson, was the unanimous opinion that the Maori peoples never conceded Sovereignty during the signing of Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Te Tiriti O Waitangi) to the British.
This is why, for more than a century the Maori peoples have treated as "second class citizens in their own country. This has are dramatically affected in many cases, their health, their livelihoods, proving their status as landowners their access to and protection of their ancestral heritage sites, and their ability to have any voice in the race, which was - and still is -. their own country
It is interesting to note that Chis Finlayson, Treaty Minister to have basically the Tribunal findings out of hand, stating that the current government of New Zealand still holds sovereignty over New Zealand. This quote from him, is typical of the attitude of many politicians in New Zealand. "No question there is that has the Crown Sovereignty in New Zealand. This report does not change that fact. "So have why the NZ government commission such a tribunal investigation, and why they are looking at the next stage of the Court that, if and to determine is if the government assumed" sovereignty ? When the reaction is the same as it was for part 1 of the Court, then wasting why even more time and money on a report that will allegedly hit never seriously by the current government of New Zealand?
The Maoris of New Zealand (or Aotearoa, as they would prefer to call it), like many other indigenous (or First Nations) peoples around the world, starting in their dignity as a nation in their own right, and are not just some subjugated tribe of savages. The United Nations is well aware, and assigns a lot of their time in changes of these people support status. So is why the New Zealand government does not take note of a tribunal that she herself had commissioned?
On the way to achieve this objective, in 2006 the Maori Confederation of Chiefs gave His Excellency Chief Charles Hohepa the greatest honor of the Maori nation - he was chosen (not chosen) to be the first Sovereign mandate - the Sole -Protection - the Maori nation. His Excellency Chief Charles Hohepa is, for many years to raise international funds, an attempt was made to significantly improve the status and well-being of many Maori, including the establishment of a new capital is seen to be built at Waitangi, as the new focus of the Maori Nation , He does so in his capacity as sovereign head of Matua Karanga Foundation. To achieve such an exulted position within a nation a very strong character with a strong moral code requires, as well as the ability to take a balanced view in any discussion or argument. This level of reputation, especially one based on mutual trust, is one that could be easily destroyed.
Unfortunately even this cheered Maori status is, but to see only a second-class citizenship and by the way he has been Chief Hohepa by the New Zealand legal system in 2007 following a 25- was treated standing dispute over the stewardship of the PWF (Peoples Worship in freedom) to bring an outreach / first aid means people who were in crisis or potential crisis or were victims of accidents and emergencies.
Briefly, a few years ago, the property was Chief Charles falsely accused by people his trustees of PWF dispute to try to steal this non-profit organization, and they brought him to trial. Unfortunate for Chief Charles, especially in this case was the fact that he was not "Pakeha", but a highly respected Maori chief.
were to have if the ruling elite of New Zealand passed by Pakeha and Maori, with the same status as by the result of the current Waitangi Tribunal, then a law of competition had been established, defined. In this case, the truth would have behind the gimmicks soon put any denigration "The Chief" to rest. In the event, the New Zealand Court refused leave His Excellency Chief Charles Hohepa to present its own, very clear and truthful defense.
total travesty of justice, which can never be sorted while Maori are treated as second-class citizens in their own country. If such a person eminent as H. E Chief Charles Hohepa can be attacked by the New Zealand Attorney General with impunity, what help can be woodsman for the poor Maori, or fishermen or small farmers through expropriations face, or the removal of its hereditary (Maori) rights , the act of an unsympathetic government illegally?
Interestingly, the people who head Hohepa were selected to his honored position, provides comprehensive information on the matter, and decided to dismiss the charges completely.
Many now rests on the ability of the New Zealand Government to fulfill its obligation to allow the current Tribunal to complete the second phase of its investigations, but unlike the first stage actually do something to allow the Maori nation status and acquiring ownership of the nation they created, and never went away.
