![]() ![]() We must be past that stuff if we are going to move on as a nation. I referred to it as putting race relations back 100 years, and I still stand by that. I too reacted strongly when the police raids happened in Tūhoe recently, like other members in this House today. So when the critics complain about settlements like the one we are introducing to this House today, I urge them to read the history before they dismiss them. These crimes took place over years-indiscriminate raupatu or land confiscation, killings, and scorched earth warfare. Those who survived returned home and found their homes burnt to the ground. Crown soldiers forced Tūhoe families out of Te Urewera and imprisoned them at Te Pūtere. ![]() Crown soldiers murdered unarmed Tūhoe civilians. Crown soldiers executed unarmed Tūhoe prisoners. Scorched earth military tactics were used by the Crown as it waged war in Te Urewera from the 1860s onwards. Banned by the United Nations Geneva Convention, scorched earth is a military strategy where the assets, food sources, transportation, communications, and resources of the civilian population are destroyed. New Zealanders need to know about the war crimes committed by the Crown against the Tūhoe people. Ko wai te tangata whenua? Ērā āhuatanga e pā ana ki a tātau. Kia mōhio mai ai a tauiwi, he aha tēnei mea te mana whenua. I am an advocate for our history, Māori history, being taught in schools. How else can we know the history and identity of our country if we do not know the whole story? As well as those stories that make us proud to be New Zealanders, we should know the stories from our nation’s past that are shocking and shameful. Critics of this Government’s Treaty settlements usually complain about the monetary cost, but how can we ever put a monetary cost on lives, land, and livelihoods taken by force by the barrel of a gun?Įvery New Zealander should read the deed of settlement we are enacting today. However, the footprint the Crown would soon leave across the lands of Tūhoe-Pōtiki was a footprint of confiscation, violence, and scorched earth. ![]() The Crown had no footprint in the Urewera before the 1860s. Tūhoe did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi. Tūhoe moumou tangata ki te pō-Tūhoe, renowned for steadfast determination, resilience, fearlessness. Tūhoe moumou taonga-generosity that has seen the lands and people of Tūhoe become living bastions of culture and language for all Māori people. Tūhoe moumou kai-Tūhoe, renowned for generosity. It is a proverb that perfectly fits the important mahi that we are here to acknowledge today. Tūhoe, moumou kai, moumou taonga, moumou tangata ki te pō.īefore this claim is over, the famous whakatauāki will be uttered many times in this House. ![]() Heoi anō, kua tae mai, tēnā koutou, nau mai, hara mai. Nā reira, whakatau mai me ngā mate kua pā ki a koutou mai i te tīmatanga o tēnei pire, tae noa ki tēnei rā, ā, tautoko ana au i ngā mihi, ngā poroporoaki ki a rātou kia okioki pai rātou i Te Kaihanga. Kua whai koutou i ngā mahi kua mahia e te hunga whiriwhiri, i a Tāmati mā. Nā reira, e tautoko ana ngā mihi ki a koutou e haere tinana mai ki te Whare Pāremata i tēnei rā, te tīmatanga o ngā kōrero e pā ana ki te kerēme. I am deeply honoured to welcome to the House today the sons and daughters of Maungapōhatu, the children of Hinepūkohurangi, and the descendants of Tūhoe-Pōtiki. E, ko Tūhoe-Pōtiki, nau mai, hara mai rā, nau mai. Tau tāpapa ana ki runga ki a Maungapōhatu a Hinepūkohurangi. Hon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Māori Affairs) : He kohu, he kohu, tau ana, tau ana. ![]()
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