Tribes are using their settlements to form business corporations intended to grow their money. They support, with varying priorities, education, health and reinvestment. One tribe is fishing off East Africa and selling the catch in Europe. Young people are being funded to study law, medicine and more. Other claims involve traditional gathering rights, broadcast rights, and changing New Zealand's name to its original Maori name, Aotearoa.
Hundreds are pending.
Only government-held lands are being returned now. Future claims against private lands could pose a whole new set of problems which the government might have to mediate. New Zealand Maoris have a tribal structure which has no counterpart in Hawaii possibly because Hawaii was united by a single king before it was overrun. New Zealand never had a king. However, a respectedchiefess of the Tainui tribe, Dame Te Ataivangikaahu, is called the Maori Queen.