Thank you Mihingarangi, Annabelle & team for telling our story. Although our whanau know the korero, it hit different seeing/hearing/feeling it in this piece and the dramatisation sent it home. All my whanau are greatful & thank you so much ❤
This was and is, so abhorrently wrong. As is the attitude of all govts, including the current, to do nothing about this colonial subordination. Thanks for reporting on this, and so powerfully. Respect.
It's a shame the government is trying to change the treaty law, which is going to effect these leases as well. With those provisions removed, we might be looking at these leases being confiscated again. Since those clauses were one of the few reasons they weren't stripped from us in the first place. All it'd take is the local councils voting for it after the government removes those clauses
Please locate the country on the map where you are able to spend currency with the word Aotearoa on it. Hint: it's the same country that you can enter with the word Aotearoa on your passport.
Excellent report Mihi. Sadly, in Aotearoa the settler colonial mentality still prevails and the injustice of Maaori perpetual leasehold land is the proverbial can been kicked down the road. It is a strength of maaori to be able to absorb such inequity and yet show integrity, self-respect and patience. If the gumboot was on the other foot, would the farmers display the same principles? Justice delayed is justice denied.
There is no colonial people alive today . It's a different world with things to fix this is one and it ain't colonial. It's Law and needs changed.laws become out of date
There are families of them on both sides though!! It was and still remains the circumstances of colonising!! No ones blaming whoever’s in your head!!🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
@@neilstuarr2278the maori in the video acknowledged that saying she knows it’s not the people today who took her land and established the perpetual lease but it is a fact that these I just laws and leases were instituted by colonial settlers
Hey Neil! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but NZ is still an English colony! King/queen, crown, governor general, royal this and that. Makes things pretty colonial don't you think?
@@milkypeanit it’s funny how we’ve lived in a democratic society since day dot but we’re still under THE CROWN with a GOVERNOR GENERAL who answers to a KING??🤷🏽🤣😂 this makes no sense!!🤣😂
Thanks Mihingarangi and team for this great doco. This has given me greater resolve as a Tangata Tiriti to expose this long-standing injustice amongst my networks of influence by sharing this doco and/or having friends over for a "viewing" and discussion afterwards. As the historian interviewed commented. If the land belonged to Remuera landowners (or any pākēhā for that matter) the law would no doubt have been amended years ago. I was also humbled at the attitudes of those most impacted, especially Tina who embodies that generosity of spirit and quiet courage, despite generations of deep hurt and injustice, that allowed tangata Tiriti to share this whenua in the first place and gave us a place to call home in this country.
Brilliant article. In Tairawhiti there is also the issue of Maori Landowners paying market rent to lease and live on their own land which is administered by Te Tumu Paeroa using antiquated leases. We would love to follow up this program with that issue too.
What an utterly wrong situation. As tangata tiriti, the one-sidedness of this situation feels disgusting. It’s like some dark aspect of the NZ Wars has continued. The legislation was enacted to punish and hurt Māori. There is no reason for it to continue to exist. Yes businesses will have to be paid out. It’s somewhat complex but not really. Complex Treaty claims have been settled. The claims of lessees can also be settled. To be denying tangata whenua control of their whenua, security (food, housing, culture, health), opportunity, creativity, but still giving all that to lessees is utterly contempt and disrespect. (The current govt is also being totally hypocritical about this - David Seymour has banged on about changing legislation to give all NZers incl Mãori more opportunity to build houses on their land, but is on record (in an interview with Mihingarangi?) as being uncommitted to doing anything to change this dark, disgusting situation. Absolutely excellent journalism and production; I hope you win awards for this! As an Anglo NZer, I am very thankful for such stories and media outlets, that allow me to hear from and learn from Māori. Colonisation created and continues to inflict untold inequity, racism & trauma. Tangata tiriti / Pākehā listening to and learning from Māori is imperative for positive change. Thank you for the opportunity to do that.
Awesome kōrero from u my pākeha brother gives me chills reading your comment as I feel we need more pākeha to have a fair and open mindedness to the situations we as Māori are constantly burdened with ,
Hoki Whenua mai,,land back. End Perpetual leases, this was very moving. Seeing my Papa Hori's depiction , whanau. Nga mihi nui ki a Mihingarangi Forbes me tō roopu, mō te kaupapa Maori o te whenua Whakataka. Na Keita
Terrible history. I always thought Maori were the leaseholders and now I have been educated. This is crazy and I feel so sorry this can't be rectified. Keep on fighting people for your land back x
Why would they demand people buy back land that was stolen in the 1st place - one would think the crown would have to pay back money to these people for loss of profit.
Thank you for this story of one of the continuing injustices against Maori in Aotearoa. I hope that we can all lobby our government, from our local MPs up, to find common sense, fair, solutions. It's all of our responsibility to fix this; us Pakeha need to get off our backsides so that the victims know they are widely supported, and so they don't have to carry the full weight of this alone. Let's all try to fix what remains so blatantly unfair.
I never knew this and am saddened for maaori and disgusted with out govts throughout the years. Our government needs to sort this now and back pay maaori .
It's not getting any better thanks to ACT and National allowing them to change the treaty law. Once that's changed there's little to stop the councils from just taking those leases
Already done except 2 small claims to finalize, the gravy train is over, youre still killing your babies, filling jails, promoting violence and racism, you need Jesus actually Christians own the land God created we inherited it.
And it’s funny how they have a cheek to ask Maori to buy it back at market value but pay peanuts back to land owners. Then those same people call Maori bludgers, thieves, criminals, waste of space and mock our culture but when our countries on the world stage it’s our culture that separates us from the rest of the world and make us unique. The fact that this has gone on for this long is astonishing. 🤦🏽♂️
I feel physically sick hearing this history. I have learned very many things in recent years about the thieving and destruction caused by my people. I am very shocked by this, but also shocked that I can live for so many decades on this island and not know anything about this thievery and oppression. I salute the trusting warrior who enlisted and went to fight the pakeha war. I would love to know where he is buried and what happened in his life. Does anyone know? I think about these heroes of ours rather often. I won't forget this man who was so very terribly treated after his time in France etc. I will tell others about this injustice as this history was never included in my 12 years at school (when I learned other stuff, like Chinese history and the Treaty of Versaille, and the French & Latin languages). The entire story, ending in them being in debt. And the story of Taranaki is so, so awful. The lease holders and court outcome is heartbreaking. The situation is so shocking. Everything said is so, so heartbreaking, so sickening. One of the most sickening things is listening to Tama Potaka, my arrogant MP. And then learning about Mr Oates, the sneaky, thieving prick. I will never forget Oates or the soldier who gave so much and lost so much. Thankyou Mihingarangi. I learned from you about the No campaign in Oz. That history made me very disturbed too. But this is here, right where I have walked, in total ignorance.
Without the lands from indigenous people, Pakeha or white settlers would have nothing to build on, to prosper with. Every country you hear about the white people/govt stealing from these people for centuries. Really heartbreaking to hear and watch 😢😢
You know nothing, we didn't live where the cities are, they are flood plains, outlets to the moana,and we had a summer pa and a winter pa,we had pa close to the moana to collect kai,we had pa close to the ngahere for kai,manu,kereru,moa,we were conservationist already, kore mohio o oku tangata, tauiwi koe,koutou ma?.....
@@mrt4916you white people built where it was all flat, built your cities here,wonder why my people built everywhere but there, cause it floods,😅😅😅😅😅check it out now, most of your so called cities flood now 😅😅😅😅😅😅funny 😅😅😅
Thankyou Mihi ,n Annabelle . Gosh Tama looked uncomfortable !. By the pen' is awesome truth. History of Colonization in Aotearoa as written exists .in cursive script ..eloquent,patient ,but persistant . Truth and justice will prevail .. Kia kaha .
The system has given so much entitlement to Pakeha over 180 years that they have become entitled to the point if you take it away( entitlement) the will use violence like those farmers threatened to do, they don't have the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing or even better work alongside Māori in this controversial space. Māori will get justice, the system is crashing. Māori will be the paternal parent to the Pakeha soon, but we won't be treating them like how they treated our tūpuna, were not mean-spirited like they are which is were entitlement stems from.
True there's a lot of entitlement and unnecessary paranoia among some Pakeha people, particularly in the older generations. People will profess not to be racist, but if certain subjects come up like land rights or Maori language something dismissive will come out. A lot of it is ignorance and a lack of self awareness.
The crookery continues. This is why lease agreements should have a "no first right of refusal" clause within it. Have your lessee reapply at the expiration of any lease. Maori owned land is around 10 percent less in value than general land.
Kia ora whanau. My partner Peter was interviewed for the Maori leasehold land doco. We purchased Café 35 in Tuatini/Tokomaru Bay three years ago. I have always respected Mihingarangi Forbes body of work however feel her editing of this show and splicing of the context as being unfairly detrimental to both him and myself which was disappointing. When we discovered the factual history of the area we were appalled & motivated to do whatever we could to mitigate the situation. We were the only leaseholders who spoke up & supported a petition against this injustice. We do not have the wherewithal to change Government wrongdoing, but legislation & compensation is required. Let's fight for that!
I appreciate his honesty and that you both seem to be reasonable, considerate and thoughtful people that are obviously just trying to run a business. It's very admirable that you were in support of the petition which is clearly at odds with your own financial interests but did it anyway so I commend you both for courage to speak out against this ongoing injustice. I feel sorry for any backlash Peter has received from this interview personally I felt that I understood his motivation for supporting the petition came from wanting to do the right thing and it was unfair to leave in some of the more awkward questions and answers around allowing the iwi to have the land back which was a pretty loaded gotcha line of questioning. Unfortunately despite it being one of the points that is repeated throughout the episode this shouldn't be blamed on the current lease holders so anyone with a brain should understand that this injustice was not of your making nor within your power to rectify and yet Peter and yourself chose to sign in support of change when you became informed of all the history and had to face the reality of what change could mean for you directly you choose what was right and not what was easy which stands you apart and in direct contrast from those lease holders in 1996 that actively protested and petitioned against the government's previous attempt to try changing/updating the Perpetual lease legislations stating how unfair and unjust any changings would be to them financially without any thought or empathy for Maori. We are the rightful owners of that land who have lost and continue to lose the enormous financial potential by that exact same legislation. Maori didn't just lose the land and the ability to control the land and its use but we lost our legal and human rights also having little to no way to legally take back the land except at extremely high costs despite already being the owner seems intentionally callous considering the lengths by which the legislation insures that the maori owners are blocked or extremely limited in extracting any meaningful financial benefit from the lease holder despite all this its fact that many Nzers think maori need to just let it go and move on already but these are the same ones that also look down their nose at us in our own country because they believe Maori get special or preferential treatment, many of whom make up the National and Act base currently railing against Te Treaty spouting one law for all and yet the specific laws they want to change are those that will reduce or diminish maori right right even further. So thanks for being an ally you deserve recognition for standing up in support when so few would do the same in your position. All the best.
A very clear view of the dark side of a paradise stolen. Rather telling that the occupiers of leased land threatened violence if they must abide by a fair settlement, but the owners, for hundreds of years, so obviously wronged, want a non violent legal resolution.
This is soooooo sad.....thank you for sharing your story. This brings knowledge and experience for others to stand alongside and also hopeful for their land claims to come back.
Don't forget that Maori colonised each other in conquest. The Central Plateau is a good example. Many who call the Maunga their own originally came from the sea. Should they give whenua taken in conquest back to the original inhabitants?
This is very eye opening. Very, very sad..!!! this sort of thing has happened globally..ie, the American Indian were put into reservations and delivered, food , only not all of it made it's way and many starved,.... the Wounded Knee history is also disgusting........ . Romans, enslaved the English, Saxons, too... Many injustices have been done , Greed, is so very evil, far too many innocent suffer from others demise. I know some of my history on my maori side , and my European side, both, are not very colourful.
I've worked in government especially the Land Office. Leases in NZ were never mentioned in the TOW. They were introduced twenty years afterwards, at a time when the UK was getting rid of them. It isn't possible that the 21 year leases became perpetual leases 'by mistake.' Instead that action smacks of bribery or fraud.
Same thing done to my nannyma the orchard taken from her, I'm gonna try my hardest to get it back. She was the sole owner but somehow those that leased it now own it
Pakeha wouldn't like it. Look how many are here after 2 days (and it being reasonably hidden) and making 'comments' about it and us as a race for... not liking being stolen from. As if we're magically different from anyone else.
Be patient my Maori people God has sent two international lawyer's to prosecute this racist government pass and present we have already provided evidence that Maori people have their own independents
and all archeological evidence and historical sites that has been found verifying this fact has been aggressively and violently suppressed and restricted from the public and anyone who mentions these facts is instantly labeled racist and threatened. cant have evidence of people here loooong before maori or it will make everything the claim and say make them look like ultimate hippocrates since the things done to and how they treated the prior inhabitants is leagues worse than what they claim pakeha has done to them
Perpetual leases need sorted. Maori are impeded by it but it is a general fairness issue! It would go a long way to help things .while the problems being fixed , similar but not such extreme issues exist with glasgow leases and leasehold land where the lessees are denied capital gain . Govt could force the issue to be solved!
Thank you for airing this as perpetual leases are nation wide. The tasman pulp and paper mill is on a 99 year lease which started in 1955 with rights to renew also promised jobs to the whanau unfortunately it was a handshake promise from the cunning man Mr fletcher.
By rights, give the land back to Māori that is theirs by the treaty of Waitangi that the crown claimed illegally as long as it’s not land that has been on sold by them already. Let them charge their rightful rents for the leases up to NZ fair current rates but charge them the lands local council rates that the rest of New Zealanders that own land currently have to pay.
4:55am Clerical error?? Ffs more like blatantly acquiring land by fraud. Sack the council.Fraudsters should be jailed... "Tu Tangata Whenua mai,Ngati Porou" KIA KAHA TONU MAI😢❤❤❤
Kia Ora Whaea Mihingarangi, Nga mihi kia koe mo tou tou mahi, mo tou whakaturanga me te kaupapa i tenei te korero o te mua. I just wanted to reach out and mihi to you. I currently work as a kaiako nehi at UCOL . For teaching purposes, would it be okay with you if I used some of this material to help student nurses understand the past history of Aotearoa and how our people navigated through time? If this is ka pai with you, please let me know, Ngā mihinui, Ko Taupiri te maunga, Ko Waikato te awa Ko Tainui te waka Ko Okarea te Marae Ko Purutetahua raua ko Te Aomartama oku tupuna Ko Bana ahau
This happened to my wife and their Whenua in Rahui põkeka,Huntly, the tauiwi was saying get off our land, racist as,then come the releasing the Whenua they no longer reside there, after 115 years they had it, for 4 dollars a week, entitled, they gone now but yes, koretake tangata pőrangi tangata o te tauiwi...PUUKANA.
To suggest multiple ownership of land is unproductive is not true. The businesses on the land can be and are seperate entities and be individually or collectively owned with rent obligations.
Thank you Mihingarangi, Annabelle & team for telling our story. Although our whanau know the korero, it hit different seeing/hearing/feeling it in this piece and the dramatisation sent it home. All my whanau are greatful & thank you so much ❤
This was and is, so abhorrently wrong. As is the attitude of all govts, including the current, to do nothing about this colonial subordination.
Thanks for reporting on this, and so powerfully. Respect.
It's a shame the government is trying to change the treaty law, which is going to effect these leases as well. With those provisions removed, we might be looking at these leases being confiscated again. Since those clauses were one of the few reasons they weren't stripped from us in the first place.
All it'd take is the local councils voting for it after the government removes those clauses
This has been an open sore on the integrity, justice and equity of Aotearoa for a century. Time it was fixed
please locate Aotearoa on a map.
Please locate the country on the map where you are able to spend currency with the word Aotearoa on it. Hint: it's the same country that you can enter with the word Aotearoa on your passport.
@@raywheeler3135 Doesn't make it a country. It New Zealand, that's it.
@@toranarama1edited? Lmao.
@@jamescooper-hope6930 typo
Excellent report Mihi.
Sadly, in Aotearoa the settler colonial mentality still prevails and the injustice of Maaori perpetual leasehold land is the proverbial can been kicked down the road.
It is a strength of maaori to be able to absorb such inequity and yet show integrity, self-respect and patience.
If the gumboot was on the other foot, would the farmers display the same principles?
Justice delayed is justice denied.
There is no colonial people alive today . It's a different world with things to fix this is one and it ain't colonial. It's Law and needs changed.laws become out of date
There are families of them on both sides though!!
It was and still remains the circumstances of colonising!!
No ones blaming whoever’s in your head!!🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
@@neilstuarr2278the maori in the video acknowledged that saying she knows it’s not the people today who took her land and established the perpetual lease but it is a fact that these I just laws and leases were instituted by colonial settlers
Hey Neil! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but NZ is still an English colony! King/queen, crown, governor general, royal this and that. Makes things pretty colonial don't you think?
@@milkypeanit it’s funny how we’ve lived in a democratic society since day dot but we’re still under THE CROWN with a GOVERNOR GENERAL who answers to a KING??🤷🏽🤣😂 this makes no sense!!🤣😂
Judicial review. This is the single biggest injustice in our country today
Thanks Mihingarangi and team for this great doco. This has given me greater resolve as a Tangata Tiriti to expose this long-standing injustice amongst my networks of influence by sharing this doco and/or having friends over for a "viewing" and discussion afterwards. As the historian interviewed commented. If the land belonged to Remuera landowners (or any pākēhā for that matter) the law would no doubt have been amended years ago. I was also humbled at the attitudes of those most impacted, especially Tina who embodies that generosity of spirit and quiet courage, despite generations of deep hurt and injustice, that allowed tangata Tiriti to share this whenua in the first place and gave us a place to call home in this country.
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Thanks to the RNZ team for letting us know about this litle known part of past and current NZ history. Keep the good work.
Brilliant article. In Tairawhiti there is also the issue of Maori Landowners paying market rent to lease and live on their own land which is administered by Te Tumu Paeroa using antiquated leases. We would love to follow up this program with that issue too.
Pukahaka?trustees
So many similarities in hitori ❤ I would love to share too.
Yes please share all of these stories that we as Kiwis can correct a future 🤙🏾
I love your work Mihi. Your work is doing big things for the future of our ppl.
This is so eye opening, thank you, notice he couldn’t even look mihingarangi in the eyes, it is theft, no denying that.
Yes I notice that same thing ....he couldn't look at her face to face
"it is what it is" ... e Tama, you look might uncomfortable. :/
What an utterly wrong situation. As tangata tiriti, the one-sidedness of this situation feels disgusting. It’s like some dark aspect of the NZ Wars has continued. The legislation was enacted to punish and hurt Māori. There is no reason for it to continue to exist. Yes businesses will have to be paid out. It’s somewhat complex but not really. Complex Treaty claims have been settled. The claims of lessees can also be settled. To be denying tangata whenua control of their whenua, security (food, housing, culture, health), opportunity, creativity, but still giving all that to lessees is utterly contempt and disrespect. (The current govt is also being totally hypocritical about this - David Seymour has banged on about changing legislation to give all NZers incl Mãori more opportunity to build houses on their land, but is on record (in an interview with Mihingarangi?) as being uncommitted to doing anything to change this dark, disgusting situation.
Absolutely excellent journalism and production; I hope you win awards for this!
As an Anglo NZer, I am very thankful for such stories and media outlets, that allow me to hear from and learn from Māori. Colonisation created and continues to inflict untold inequity, racism & trauma. Tangata tiriti / Pākehā listening to and learning from Māori is imperative for positive change. Thank you for the opportunity to do that.
Awesome kōrero from u my pākeha brother gives me chills reading your comment as I feel we need more pākeha to have a fair and open mindedness to the situations we as Māori are constantly burdened with ,
Well said. Tautoko
Hoki Whenua mai,,land back. End Perpetual leases, this was very moving. Seeing my Papa Hori's depiction , whanau. Nga mihi nui ki a Mihingarangi Forbes me tō roopu, mō te kaupapa Maori o te whenua Whakataka.
Na
Keita
Those farmers sounded pretty entitled, willing to kill for "their" land they rekon😳🤦♂️🤦♂️
A lease is not a title.
That's how annexation begins
Or entitlement 👍
sounds like ZIONIST JEWS
Learn to spell knobhead!
@@flyingroman247
I see your still hurt from our last encounter 😭🤣🤣
Noone gives a f about your feelings 🤷♂️😉
Terrible history. I always thought Maori were the leaseholders and now I have been educated. This is crazy and I feel so sorry this can't be rectified. Keep on fighting people for your land back x
Why would they demand people buy back land that was stolen in the 1st place - one would think the crown would have to pay back money to these people for loss of profit.
And who is the Crown, it's not the people but the people are paying why?
A huge eye opener and a real travesty, Kia ora Mihingarangi, you are an incredible reporter.
Thank you for this story of one of the continuing injustices against Maori in Aotearoa. I hope that we can all lobby our government, from our local MPs up, to find common sense, fair, solutions. It's all of our responsibility to fix this; us Pakeha need to get off our backsides so that the victims know they are widely supported, and so they don't have to carry the full weight of this alone. Let's all try to fix what remains so blatantly unfair.
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I never knew this and am saddened for maaori and disgusted with out govts throughout the years. Our government needs to sort this now and back pay maaori .
They have been treated like the people in garza the and the british kings government part of it
The government in right now is very nearly the same one that had to be stopped from MORE land confiscations by the supreme court in their last term.
It's not getting any better thanks to ACT and National allowing them to change the treaty law. Once that's changed there's little to stop the councils from just taking those leases
Already done except 2 small claims to finalize, the gravy train is over, youre still killing your babies, filling jails, promoting violence and racism, you need Jesus actually Christians own the land God created we inherited it.
And it’s funny how they have a cheek to ask Maori to buy it back at market value but pay peanuts back to land owners. Then those same people call Maori bludgers, thieves, criminals, waste of space and mock our culture but when our countries on the world stage it’s our culture that separates us from the rest of the world and make us unique. The fact that this has gone on for this long is astonishing. 🤦🏽♂️
The devils, are absolutely cunning to the core.
I feel physically sick hearing this history.
I have learned very many things in recent years about the thieving and destruction caused by my people.
I am very shocked by this, but also shocked that I can live for so many decades on this island and not know anything about this thievery and oppression.
I salute the trusting warrior who enlisted and went to fight the pakeha war. I would love to know where he is buried and what happened in his life. Does anyone know?
I think about these heroes of ours rather often. I won't forget this man who was so very terribly treated after his time in France etc.
I will tell others about this injustice as this history was never included in my 12 years at school (when I learned other stuff, like Chinese history and the Treaty of Versaille, and the French & Latin languages).
The entire story, ending in them being in debt. And the story of Taranaki is so, so awful. The lease holders and court outcome is heartbreaking.
The situation is so shocking. Everything said is so, so heartbreaking, so sickening.
One of the most sickening things is listening to Tama Potaka, my arrogant MP.
And then learning about Mr Oates, the sneaky, thieving prick. I will never forget Oates or the soldier who gave so much and lost so much.
Thankyou Mihingarangi. I learned from you about the No campaign in Oz. That history made me very disturbed too. But this is here, right where I have walked, in total ignorance.
Without the lands from indigenous people, Pakeha or white settlers would have nothing to build on, to prosper with. Every country you hear about the white people/govt stealing from these people for centuries. Really heartbreaking to hear and watch 😢😢
Wat u on about most of these cities were built by maori by force
Lol colonialism isn't exclusively a white phenomenon by any means.
Must agree I'm angry why I don't watch this stuff
You know nothing, we didn't live where the cities are, they are flood plains, outlets to the moana,and we had a summer pa and a winter pa,we had pa close to the moana to collect kai,we had pa close to the ngahere for kai,manu,kereru,moa,we were conservationist already, kore mohio o oku tangata, tauiwi koe,koutou ma?.....
@@mrt4916you white people built where it was all flat, built your cities here,wonder why my people built everywhere but there, cause it floods,😅😅😅😅😅check it out now, most of your so called cities flood now 😅😅😅😅😅😅funny 😅😅😅
Thankyou Mihi ,n Annabelle .
Gosh Tama looked uncomfortable !.
By the pen' is awesome truth.
History of Colonization in Aotearoa as written exists .in cursive script ..eloquent,patient ,but persistant .
Truth and justice will prevail ..
Kia kaha .
The system has given so much entitlement to Pakeha over 180 years that they have become entitled to the point if you take it away( entitlement) the will use violence like those farmers threatened to do, they don't have the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing or even better work alongside Māori in this controversial space. Māori will get justice, the system is crashing. Māori will be the paternal parent to the Pakeha soon, but we won't be treating them like how they treated our tūpuna, were not mean-spirited like they are which is were entitlement stems from.
And parties like ACT are just making it worse
True there's a lot of entitlement and unnecessary paranoia among some Pakeha people, particularly in the older generations. People will profess not to be racist, but if certain subjects come up like land rights or Maori language something dismissive will come out. A lot of it is ignorance and a lack of self awareness.
The crookery continues. This is why lease agreements should have a "no first right of refusal" clause within it. Have your lessee reapply at the expiration of any lease. Maori owned land is around 10 percent less in value than general land.
Kia ora whanau. My partner Peter was interviewed for the Maori leasehold land doco. We purchased Café 35 in Tuatini/Tokomaru Bay three years ago. I have always respected Mihingarangi Forbes body of work however feel her editing of this show and splicing of the context as being unfairly detrimental to both him and myself which was disappointing. When we discovered the factual history of the area we were appalled & motivated to do whatever we could to mitigate the situation. We were the only leaseholders who spoke up & supported a petition against this injustice. We do not have the wherewithal to change Government wrongdoing, but legislation & compensation is required. Let's fight for that!
I appreciate his honesty and that you both seem to be reasonable, considerate and thoughtful people that are obviously just trying to run a business. It's very admirable that you were in support of the petition which is clearly at odds with your own financial interests but did it anyway so I commend you both for courage to speak out against this ongoing injustice. I feel sorry for any backlash Peter has received from this interview personally I felt that I understood his motivation for supporting the petition came from wanting to do the right thing and it was unfair to leave in some of the more awkward questions and answers around allowing the iwi to have the land back which was a pretty loaded gotcha line of questioning. Unfortunately despite it being one of the points that is repeated throughout the episode this shouldn't be blamed on the current lease holders so anyone with a brain should understand that this injustice was not of your making nor within your power to rectify and yet Peter and yourself chose to sign in support of change when you became informed of all the history and had to face the reality of what change could mean for you directly you choose what was right and not what was easy which stands you apart and in direct contrast from those lease holders in 1996 that actively protested and petitioned against the government's previous attempt to try changing/updating the Perpetual lease legislations stating how unfair and unjust any changings would be to them financially without any thought or empathy for Maori. We are the rightful owners of that land who have lost and continue to lose the enormous financial potential by that exact same legislation. Maori didn't just lose the land and the ability to control the land and its use but we lost our legal and human rights also having little to no way to legally take back the land except at extremely high costs despite already being the owner seems intentionally callous considering the lengths by which the legislation insures that the maori owners are blocked or extremely limited in extracting any meaningful financial benefit from the lease holder despite all this its fact that many Nzers think maori need to just let it go and move on already but these are the same ones that also look down their nose at us in our own country because they believe Maori get special or preferential treatment, many of whom make up the National and Act base currently railing against Te Treaty spouting one law for all and yet the specific laws they want to change are those that will reduce or diminish maori right right even further.
So thanks for being an ally you deserve recognition for standing up in support when so few would do the same in your position. All the best.
A very clear view of the dark side of a paradise stolen. Rather telling that the occupiers of leased land threatened violence if they must abide by a fair settlement, but the owners, for hundreds of years, so obviously wronged, want a non violent legal resolution.
Te Kawa Whanau thank you Mahinarangi ❤
This is soooooo sad.....thank you for sharing your story. This brings knowledge and experience for others to stand alongside and also hopeful for their land claims to come back.
Don't forget that Maori colonised each other in conquest. The Central Plateau is a good example. Many who call the Maunga their own originally came from the sea. Should they give whenua taken in conquest back to the original inhabitants?
excellent point and also the only comment on here pointing out an important relevant fact that should be acknowledged
The difference is a treaty was signed and this happened after the treaty was signed, not even that long ago in the big scheme of things.
That was an eye-opener. Thank you.
This is very eye opening. Very, very sad..!!! this sort of thing has happened globally..ie, the American Indian were put into reservations and delivered, food , only not all of it made it's way and many starved,.... the Wounded Knee history is also disgusting........ . Romans, enslaved the English, Saxons, too... Many injustices have been done , Greed, is so very evil, far too many innocent suffer from others demise. I know some of my history on my maori side , and my European side, both, are not very colourful.
Welcome to the Human Race
we got our whenua back from a 99 year lease
Kei te pai. At least someone managed to get out of them
@@tanepukenga1421 took us years in court we found breach in the lease
Ka nui te mihi ki a koe Mihinarangi mō tēnei pitopito kōrero - he moumou ētehi o ngā mema Māori kei roto i te kawanatanga!
Tama doesn't give a rats about our people and land yet he went to Te Aute and was our prefect
He got to follow the leader. He’s doing a good job of following. 🤮
His family have all their land.
99 years peppercorn lease . They come up fot renewal. Much of this land has moved into conservation estate
Stella investigative reporting, journalism and production!
More like this please 🙏 We have the opportunity to make good in Aotearoa
Tama potaka you are KUPAPA!!!
Great mahi exposing ongoing Colonial & Kupapa Grifters. Never Stop fighting these abusers. Free Aotearoa! Free Palestine!
An amazing story - wicked good reporting - thank you.
Nga mihi nui, thank you so much for clarity on perpetual lease.
I've worked in government especially the Land Office. Leases in NZ were never mentioned in the TOW. They were introduced twenty years afterwards, at a time when the UK was getting rid of them. It isn't possible that the 21 year leases became perpetual leases 'by mistake.' Instead that action smacks of bribery or fraud.
Proper journalism, kia ora!
Same thing done to my nannyma the orchard taken from her, I'm gonna try my hardest to get it back. She was the sole owner but somehow those that leased it now own it
Dam crime.
aue.....i cry
Is it lawful legislation if it was not in accordance with the treaty. And lease should be at market value
😭💔 Land Back 🙏🌳
I find this not ! it is what it is , I find this unacceptable
Gisborne council needs to just give it back! Oate's Tuatini block as well!
pōuri and Mamae for Tangata Whenua. You wouldn't think something like this is still happening to Maori in 2024.
Good on you and Mihingarangi.
We have never stopped protecting since day one
Why isn’t this story aired on the main tv channels?
Pakeha wouldn't like it. Look how many are here after 2 days (and it being reasonably hidden) and making 'comments' about it and us as a race for... not liking being stolen from.
As if we're magically different from anyone else.
R u sure it wasnt an onarible hand shake deal for muskets and ships blankets, bad if that wasnt d cass
It's such a deeply sad history of the Maui natives of NZ. It's tremendously cruel of the white government there.
The Crown Govt is 40% Maori they aren't seperate
Be patient my Maori people God has sent two international lawyer's to prosecute this racist government pass and present we have already provided evidence that Maori people have their own independents
Fantastic reporting
We are up the creek with no paddle ..I'm a trustee in Rotorua same problem landlocked land taken over by someone else
That's God's judgment
Makes me laugh how moari still think thay wher the 1st here indigenous came here on a boat 800 yrs ago 😂
and all archeological evidence and historical sites that has been found verifying this fact has been aggressively and violently suppressed and restricted from the public and anyone who mentions these facts is instantly labeled racist and threatened. cant have evidence of people here loooong before maori or it will make everything the claim and say make them look like ultimate hippocrates since the things done to and how they treated the prior inhabitants is leagues worse than what they claim pakeha has done to them
Rise up Maori!!! We have 184 reasons to break away and form our own parliament
That’s going to be a big dole bill
Why would we need one if we finally got our farming land back? Or just trying to make a racist dig, huh? @@vicipiz
A racist dig.
Who is that weasel politician?
Winitana, Seymour, Jones, McKee, Potaka????
Perpetual leases need sorted. Maori are impeded by it but it is a general fairness issue! It would go a long way to help things .while the problems being fixed , similar but not such extreme issues exist with glasgow leases and leasehold land where the lessees are denied capital gain . Govt could force the issue to be solved!
Yeah well put
Thank you for airing this as perpetual leases are nation wide. The tasman pulp and paper mill is on a 99 year lease which started in 1955 with rights to renew also promised jobs to the whanau unfortunately it was a handshake promise from the cunning man Mr fletcher.
Disgusting the injustice l.
End perpetual leases. ⚖️💲🎴
Get your land whanau
It is what it IS!!! aue.! enough is enough!!!
Well at least we know RNZ is on the Moaridom band wagon as well. I'll put them in the TVNZ, dont watch bracket as well.
And who administers the equity that the crown holds
The monarcharist corptocracy
Wow nga mihi nui kia koutou. Thank you for sharing.
Mihingarangi ahhhhhh fanning the flame
learnt a lot from this
Thank you
We are there landlords
Get off stolen Maori land UPOKOKOHUA
Get rid of Te Tumu Paeroa
Yip
End Perpetual leases! Then give them a taste of what our tupuna went through!!
Seem's like a big injustice and breach of the treaty. And a settlement should be given. Make sure its a ongoing settlement
An extension of the movement behind the Waitangi treaty and the empowerment to district council and local colonial governance
By rights, give the land back to Māori that is theirs by the treaty of Waitangi that the crown claimed illegally as long as it’s not land that has been on sold by them already.
Let them charge their rightful rents for the leases up to NZ fair current rates but charge them the lands local council rates that the rest of New Zealanders that own land currently have to pay.
My daughters Great nanny was from Taranaki
Dr Charlotte Severne obviously lives on a whole new planet. I hope in her time she was at least; warm…
Daym we strong People
Nfa mihi 🙏 so informatuve
4:55am Clerical error??
Ffs more like blatantly acquiring land by fraud.
Sack the council.Fraudsters should be jailed...
"Tu Tangata Whenua mai,Ngati Porou"
KIA KAHA TONU MAI😢❤❤❤
This is absolutely disgusting
And in the mists of time the land is lost n the Johnny come latelys some how end up owning the land.By hook or by crook😢
Kia Ora Whaea Mihingarangi,
Nga mihi kia koe mo tou tou mahi, mo tou whakaturanga me te kaupapa i tenei te korero o te mua.
I just wanted to reach out and mihi to you. I currently work as a kaiako nehi at UCOL . For teaching purposes, would it be okay with you if I used some of this material to help student nurses understand the past history of Aotearoa and how our people navigated through time?
If this is ka pai with you, please let me know,
Ngā mihinui,
Ko Taupiri te maunga,
Ko Waikato te awa
Ko Tainui te waka
Ko Okarea te Marae
Ko Purutetahua raua ko Te Aomartama oku tupuna
Ko Bana ahau
I love aunty Tina Ratana. E tu Te Aitanga a Hauiti!!!
Occupation.occupy..Ngapuhi.never ceded authority.Crown agrees..
21.July 2023
Waitangi Tribunal.Te Paparahi OTE Raki..High Court.Appeal Court..SUPREME COURT..KIA .UU.na Hongi
This story illuminates why going deep matters…Go to the tap root to find the truth!
Makes me furious!!! LAND BACK!!!!! 😡
Interesting!
This happened to my wife and their Whenua in Rahui põkeka,Huntly, the tauiwi was saying get off our land, racist as,then come the releasing the Whenua they no longer reside there, after 115 years they had it, for 4 dollars a week, entitled, they gone now but yes, koretake tangata pőrangi tangata o te tauiwi...PUUKANA.
Potaka! What a rude man! It is what it is! He says!
Translation, our govt won’t do anything about change.
Uncle Tommy Tama Potaka is a sell out.
Was the land sold? Or government compensation pay out?
To suggest multiple ownership of land is unproductive is not true. The businesses on the land can be and are seperate entities and be individually or collectively owned with rent obligations.
send as much info as possible and I will study