Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): I stand to follow Te Paati Māori's first speaker today Willie Jackson e hika mā [friends] and thank you for opening the floor for us! Also at this time—we usually only get five minutes but generously National has given us their other five so you've got 10 minutes to listen to me e hika mā i tēnei rā [friends today]. So thank you to Gerry Brownlee and the National Party for the 10 minutes of Te Paati Māori i tēnei rā. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou. Marama Fox awesome to see you sister nice to see you back in the House after standing outside the House. Being trespassed and not trespassed—nau mai hoki mai. Where are you? Oh she's up there in the corner there. Kia ora e te tuahine.Hey just to pick up on what ACT was talking about in regards to not knowing how it feels today after 182 years of abuse what I know is that—what are we going to do tomorrow? We have a duty of care in this House to ensure we put a stop to the constant abuse that many Governments in the past—and I'm sure in the future if there's not constitutional transformation—will continue to do on our mokopuna. That's the big question. Treaty settlements ain't an apology for us to get over 182 years of abuse—e kāo. This is an opportunity for us to move forward but to allow us to do that with some dignity. The greatest thing the Government can do is to give everything back. Pere atu taku pere ki Te Tai Rāwhiti ko Te Pōtangaroa ko Te Toiroa Ikariki. Kei Pukerimu ko te puna o Te Mātenga ka kohiti te marama i runga o Te Kōrito.Tōia mai tōia mai Kahungunu ki runga Pōneke ki te Whare Pāremata.Tika tonu ngā kōrero a taku rangatira a Willie tangihia ō tātou mate o te wā. Arā ki te whānau Walker Gemmell ki te whānau Karaitiana me te whānau Kāwana hoki ngā wharemate o te iwi tangihia. Pīkauhia. Mā rātou tēnei kaupapa e kawe ki te ao wairua.Ā me te hāngai tonu ngā mihi ki te tumuaki o te Hāhi Rātana ki a Harerangi Meihana ā ki a Andrew Robb hoki. Whoatu rā koutou i runga i te ara kōrero kua parangia e te tini e te mano. Hoki mai rā ki a tātou ngā mahuetanga iho tēnā tātou.I rongo atu awahau i ngā kōrero i runga i te pae i tēnei rā mō te ana o te raiona kāore au i kite he raiona i roto nei. He puihi noa iho. Tōia mai Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. Tōia mai Tākitimu waka. Tōia mai i ngā koroingo o ngā mātua tīpuna i te pō. Tōia mai ngā tūmanakohanga a te iwi Māori mō ngā mokopuna e ao ake.Tōia mai te kerēme Tiriti o Waitangi o Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. Takoto mai rā i runga i te mahau o tēnei Whare hei kōrerorero hei wānanganganga mā te hunga mā ngā māngai o te motu. Ko te tūmanakohanga ka whai ana hoki tātou i tētahi huarahi hei oranga mō tātou i tēnei rā me Ngāti Āpōpō ā tātou tamariki mokopuna.I rongo atu awahau anō hoki i te kōrero a te pae tapu. Nau mai haramai tōia mai i te Pāpāwai. Tōia mai i a Te Mānihera Te Rangitakaiwaho nāna te kaupapa o Te Kotahitanga. Tōia mai i a Hāmuera Tamahau Mahupuku nāna te Whare o Hikurangi hei Whare Pāremata Māori hei Whare mō Te Kotahitanga.I rongo i te oranga a Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua i ngā hua i roto i te āhuatanga o te hainatanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi i te tau 1840 te taha ki te mahi hokohoko me te mahi tahi ki a Pākehā. He iwi whai rawa i tērā tāima. Wairarapa waha nui tēnā koutou.I tūtakitaki te iwi tuatahi ki te Karauna i te tau 1845. I whakatumatuma te Karauna i te noho Māori a te iwi ki runga i tōna whenua ā ka noho te Karauna hei tuarā maitai mō Pākehā i whakararuraru i te iwi i tērā tāima.Ā ka raupatuhia te manomano eka ki Maungaroa me te whiu i te riri ki runga i a Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. I mahi mū te Karauna i mahi mū me te kī atu ki te iwi ka whakawātea a Pākehā ki runga i ō koutou whenua e te iwi mēnā ka hoko ngā whenua ki te Karauna pokotiwha. Kātahi te mahi mū ko tērā.Nā ngā whakahau a te Karauna i te tau 1853 i te marama o Hune ka hainatia te iwi i te kawenata o Castlepoint. I whakaae ana te Karauna ki te whakaritea he pūtea mō te whenua hoko atu ki wētahi atu mā Kahungunu e tiaki engari rā auare ake. Ko hoko e te Karauna neke atu i te 1.5 miriona eka me te kore i mana i te kawenata rā. Nā Te Kōti Whenua Māori i te tau 1866 ki te 1873 te whakapākehā i te whenua mā te tohatoha ki te taitara tangata hei aukati i te mano o ngā hapū ki wā rātou whenua tōpū. I tēnei rā waru tekau pai hēneti noa iho o te whenua o Castlepoint kei roto i te whenua rāhui o Mātaikona.Kua here te Kāwanatanga i taua whenua paraka rā tōna mana tōna ihi tōna tapu kei roto i te whenua rāhui o Mātaikona. Arā ana ngā mahi mū a te Kāwana. He iwi whenua kore tēnei iwi. Te tokoiti o te whenua kei a rātou tonu kua tūkinotia kua parangia e ngā paru o ngā kamupene penehīni arā kei te patua tonu i tēnei rā.Inā ngā kōrero a Tākuta Takirirangi Smith ka whakaritea ngā mahi parahako a te Karauna ki tētahi pahū nui. Te tāhae whenua te apo tikanga te apo māra hoki me te āta wetewete i ngā tawatawaenga here ā-whakapapa ā kei te ū tonu te mamae i ēnei rangi tonu.Ka huri au ki te reo pihikete.[My bell rings in the East where Pōtangaroa and Te Toiroa Ikariki reside. At Pukerimu is the pool of Te Mātenga and the new moon rises over Te Kōrito. Welcome welcome Kahungunu to Wellington to the House of Parliament.My esteemed colleague Willie is correct; we must mourn the recent deaths. So to the Walker Gemmell family to the Karaitiana family and the Kāwana family as well the bereaved families of the tribe mourn them carry them. They will carry this issue to the spiritual realm. They will instruct they will tell of the things that you are bearing in the physical world.And I must acknowledge Harerangi Meihana the leader of the Rātana Church and also Andrew Robb. Go forth upon the storied pathway forged by the myriads. Returning to us all those who have been left behind greetings one and all.I heard in the speeches given today there was mention of the lion's den I do not see any lions present. Just pussycats. Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua you are drawn here today. Tākitimu canoe you are drawn here today. Bring with you the dreams and desires of your ancestors who have passed. Bring with you the hopes of Māori for tomorrow's generations.Bring with you the Treaty claim of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. Lay it down on the porch of this House to be discussed and be considered by this group of representatives from around the country. It is hoped that we can also follow a path that benefits us all as well as the future generations.I also heard the speeches of the orator's bench. Welcome welcome to those from Pāpāwai. Bring with you Te Mānihera Te Rangitakaiwaho from whom sprang the kotahitanga movement. Bring with you Hāmuera Tamahau Mahupuku who established the House of Hikurangi used as a Māori House of Parliament for the kotahitanga movement.We heard of the health Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua of the benefits of signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 in terms of trading and collaboration with Pākehā. They were a well-resourced tribe at that time. Boisterous Wairarapa I acknowledge you.The iwi first encountered the Crown in 1845. The Crown challenged the tribe living as Māori on their own land and the Crown acted as a formidable ally for Pākehā who were causing problems for the tribe at that time.Thousands of acres were confiscated with threats of violence against Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. The Crown was underhanded people they were underhanded in telling the tribe that Pākehā would be removed from your land if the land were sold to the Crown what a sham. What an underhanded tactic that was.In June 1853 under the instruction of the Crown the tribe signed the Castlepoint deed. The Crown agreed that a fund would be created for Ngāti Kahungunu from the onsale of lands but this never happened. The Crown purchased over 1.5 million acres and did not fulfil its obligations to the deed. From 1866 to 1873 the Native Land Court assimilated the land into European culture by distributing individual titles and thus blocking thousands of sub-tribes from their own land. Today 80 percent of the land from Castlepoint is in the Mātaikona reserve. The Government has locked up that land block its spiritual and physical significance and its sacred nature in the Mātaikona reserve. That is the underhanded work of the Governor. This is a landless tribe. The little land that is left to them has been mistreated and polluted by the contaminants from the petrol companies and that goes on to this very day.Dr Takiririrangi Smith has likened the disparaging acts of the Crown to a great explosion. The stealing of land the extortion of customary practice and cultivations along with the purposeful unravelling of genealogical connections the pain of which is unyielding to this very day.I now turn to the English language.]Many Governments of the past have flaunted themselves as a beacon for indigenous rights on an international stage while exploiting the generosity of tangata whenua at home. Crown negotiation policies such as large natural groupings and the fiscal envelope have determined this. Engineering further division further harm and further breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi itself. That is why Te Paati Māori does not accept that settlements are full and final—they never should be. You will only get 1 percent of your due but we must always leave the door open to our mokopuna to fight for the other 99 percent. Our trauma does not lie in the past—inequality poverty and the desecration of Papatūānuku is happening in the present and will continue to be our future if we continue down this track. I would like to remind the Crown—Willie Jackson—that the Treaty was never about tangata whenua. We had mana motuhake long before we had the flu. The Treaty is what gives the Crown the right to be here so I'm not sure why we're in such a rush to settle. Article 1 consented to kāwanatanga article 2 secured the pre-existing rights of Māori before 1840 and article 3 was about working together to create a better future as a nation. Te Tiriti is not for settling; it is for honouring. I honour you today Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua. Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora tātou katoa.