Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Mā wai au e ārahi ki Tapu-Wharawhara te puke i tau ai te matā kia pai nā taku titiro ki te moana ki Waikare papa pounamu nei ē. Kauria ahau i te waiora o Te Karetū rere ana ki Ōtūihu tū ana ahau i Te Ngutu Awa o Taumārere te awa herehere riri. Me hoki kōmuri au ki Te Whare o Tīhema Te Whare e arohatia nei ē! He paunga waiho mai nā ō mātua e huri noa atu rā ki te ākau ē!"Taranaki Iwi tēnā rā koutou. Ko aua kupu he kupu nō tētahi waiata nō tōku hapū a Ngāti Manu kei roto o Karetū kei Te Tai Tokerau. Ko te ingoa o taua waiata he waiata aroha ki te whenua e whakaatu ana e whakamāramatia ana i te kaha o te aroha o te Māori ngā honotanga o te Māori ki ōna maunga ki ōna pā ki ōna awaawa ki ōna moana ki ōna kāinga. Nā reira ka rongo ahau i ngā hara o Te Karauna ki a koutou i wērā tau i mua i muri ka koropupū ake te pukuriri ki roto i te whatu manawa i te mea ko aua hara kua meangia ai ki a mātau hoki ki ngā iwi katoa. Ka tirohia e ahau i ngā whenua kei roto i Pēwhairangi e ūhia ana e ngā whare rahi o Te Pākehā whai rawa; ka tirohia e ahau ki tōku kāinga o Te Karetū ngā whare iti ngā whare taretare o Te Māori ka āhua pukuriri ahau ki ngā rerekētanga.Ēngari kua rongo ahau 1.2 miriona ngā eka kua raupatungia i a koutou—ō koutou whenua katoa! Waimarie ana mātau he paku wāhi nō mātau hei tū ō mātau kāinga. Nā reira kai te mihi atu ahau ki a koutou. E mahara ake ana ahau ki ngā kōrero ngā kupu o Te Atua Wera tētahi o ngā poropiti nō Ngāpuhi ki tōna hoa a Kāwiti te tupuna o Peeni rāua ko Pita Paraone: "Ka whakahurihia e Te Pākehā tana Tiriti hei pūngāwerewere hei kai i a tātau Te Iwi Māori. He rite tātau ki te pāpaka ki te tātarakihi ōna toto ōna whēkau kua ngotea kua kainga. Ka whakarērea ki muri he pāpaka ko taua pāpaka ko tāua Te Iwi Māori!".["Who will lead me to Tapu-Wharawhara the hill where the obsidian settled so that I have a good view indeed of the dark green sea surface at Waikare. It is there that I will wade at Karetū and then flee to Ōtūihu and stop at the river mouth of Taumārere the river that binds up aggression. I must return to the house of Tīhema which I indeed have much compassion for. It is a relic left by our forefathers and so I turn and nostalgically gaze along the banks of the river and the coastline indeed!"Acknowledgments to you the tribe of Taranaki. Those words are words from a lament that belong to my Ngāti Manu subtribe in Karetū at North Auckland. That song is a lament about the land revealing and explaining the powerful empathy that Māori have in terms of their connections to their mountains pā settlements valleys seas and dwellings. So when I hear about the transgressions inflicted upon you by the Crown in those past years anger wells up from within the heart because those violations were inflicted upon us as well and upon all tribes. I looked up the lands in the book Pēwhairangi that were covered by the large houses that belonged to well-to-do Pākehā; I looked at my settlement of Te Karetū at the small and dilapidated Māori houses and I got angry at the differences.But I heard that 1.2 million acres were confiscated from you—all of your lands! We were lucky we got a small patch of land for us to put our homes up on it. So we congratulate you collectively. I recall the sayings the utterances of Te Atua Wera one of the prophets from Ngāpuhi to his mate Kāwiti the ancestor of Peeni Henare and Pita Paraone: "The Pākehā will turn his Treaty into a spider to consume us the Māori people. We are like the crab and the cicada whose blood and entrails have been sucked out and consumed. What remains is a crab and that crab is indeed us Māoridom!".]I will translate that. I just acknowledged the extent of the loss of Taranaki—all the 1.2 million acres all of their lands—every acre as the Minister said. And it reminds me of the saying of Te Atua Wera a Ngāpuhi prophet to his friend Kāwīti who happens to be a tupuna of Pita Paraone and Peeni Henare when he said: "The Pākehā has converted the Treaty into a spider to eat us the Māori people. We are just like the shell of the cicada. Our blood and our innards have been sucked out and eaten and all that is left is the shell and that shell is us the Māori people."Ēngari ka titiro ake ahau ki a koutou e Taranaki Iwi ka kite ahau ēhara ko te pāpaka noa iho kua toe. He Iwi kaha koutou. Ka mahara hoki ahau ki ngā kupu o Te Tohu Kākahi nāna i mea mai: "Kāore ana ahau kia koropiko ki te mana o Te Kuini." nā reira ātaahua rawa atu ana āna korero. Ka kite ahau kīhai koutou i koropiko ki te mana o Te Kuini ki te mana o Te Karauna. Nā reira kei te mihi atu ahau ki a koutou e manakohia ana mā tēnei taunga o tō koutou kerēme ka āwhinatia i te tātarakihi kia whakahokia ōna whēkau ōna toto kia tino puāwai kia tino rere kia rongo tātau i tōna waiata i roto i ngā ngahere o Taranaki Iwi. Kua rongo ake ahau i ngā kōrero a Jonathan Young i tāna whaikōrero i mua ake rā i ngā kerēme mō Te Ātiawa. Nāna i kī mai ko tō koutou tupuna a Wīremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke nā Colonel Murray i haere atu ki a ia.[But I look up at you Taranaki tribe and I see that it is not just the crab that is left. You are a capable tribe. I also recall the words of Te Tohu Kākahi who said: "I have not yet bowed to the Queen's sovereignty." and so his words are really lovely. I see you have not bowed to the integrity of the Queen and the Crown. Therefore I commend you because in your hearts you know that this settlement of your claim will help the return of the cicada's entrails and blood so that it blossoms and flows in order that we hear its song in the forests that belong to the tribe of Taranaki. I have heard the sentiments expressed by Jonathan Young in his earlier address in regard to the Te Ātiawa claims. He said that your ancestor Wīremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke was approached by Colonel Murray.]Colonel Murray said that there was a virtual declaration of war alleging Kīngi was in rebellion and Kīngi replied: "Friend Colonel Murray salutation to you in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ … You say that we have been guilty of rebellion against the Queen but we consider we have not".Ko tāku e whakapae ana ko tērā; Te Karauna e whakawātia ana i a koutou o Taranaki Iwi. Nā ka huri ahau ki ngā kupu o tētahi o ōku kaumātua nō Ngāti Hine arā ko te taokete o Pita Paraone a Hirini Hēnare. Wēnei āna kōrero ki Te Taraipiunara o Waitangi i roto i a Ngāpuhi: "He aha kē ahau te tangata kore hara i mua i Te Atua e tū nei kia whakawātia e koe te tangata tāhae te tangata hara te tangata kore tikanga? Ko koe kē te tika kia tū ki konei. Māku kē koe e whakawā i raro i ōku ture o te tikanga; kotahi anake te tatūtanga ko te pono!".[That was what I was alleging; the Crown was investigating you the tribe of Taranaki. I turn now to words of one of my aged from Ngāti Hine namely the brother-in-law of Pita Paraone Hirini Hēnare. These are his words to the Waitangi Tribunal in Northland: "What indeed am I a person who is sinless before God standing here to be investigated by you the thieving sinful one who has no principles? By rights you indeed should be the one standing here. I should be the one investigating you under my lore; quite frankly there should have been only one settlement and that is the truth!".]In other words I was saying that Colonel Murray judged Wīremu Kīngi Te Rangitake and I just want to refer back to the words of a kaumātua of mine from Ngāti Hine who happens to be the brother-in-law of Pita Paraone. In his words he said: "Why is it that me a person without sin in the eyes of the Lord stands here to be judged by you—a thief a criminal a person without customs or tikanga? It is proper that you should stand here before me and let me judge you under my laws under my tikanga and there will be one result and that is the truth." Beautiful words and I think they apply to not just Taranaki iwi to be honest but all of the tribes that have had their land unfairly confiscated. The land was confiscated and taken for the most shallow of reasons and we were all judged rebels and savages and all those sorts of adjectives were thrown around about Māori. Yet if we could just let non-Māori see that actually if we were able to apply and judge others using our tikanga there would be a different result.This bill goes a very small way to righting the wrongs of the past: 1.2 million acres were stolen from Taranaki iwi; every single acre that they possessed. As we have said what we are returning is just a fraction of what was taken. I often refer to what Minister Finlayson says that we should never actually just focus on what has been returned; we should focus on the extent of what was taken because 1.2 million acres is enough for every man woman and child in New Zealand right now to have their own quarter acre section. That is the extent of the confiscation and I do not think people realise that in all we are getting back—I would not say a lousy couple of million dollars but in the greater scheme of things you know it is just a mere fraction.So I acknowledge you and I thank you all. This is a day I believe when we need to commemorate the past when we need to celebrate today but most of all we need to anticipate the future.Nō reira huri rauna tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai anō tātou.[So congratulations well done throughout to you collectively and thank you once again to us.]"