Fox Marama: Rangitāne o Manawatu Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFox Marama: Rangitāne o Manawatu Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 15 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9782. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):Tēnā koe e Te Mana Whakawā.Tini whetū ki te rangiRangitāne ki te whenuaEkīai he iwi hūmariemaranga tū mai rā.Tēnā koutou ōku pou ōku rahi ngā hononga whanaunga kei waenganui i a koutou nei te mihi atu ki a koutou! Ā tēnei au e tū ake nei ki te tuku whakaaro ki a koutou me ō koutou tini mate ō koutou tupuna rātou kāre anō kua tae ki tēnei rangi i runga i te matenga ka tuku whakaaro ki a koutou!He rangi whakahirahira tēnei nei te mihi! Ka mihi nui ki a koutou i roto i te whakaititanga o ahau e tū ake nei hai whāki atu ki te tini me te mano e whakarongo nei ā kua tae te wā kua tae te wā!Nā reira ka tuku whakaaro ki tēnei iwi o tātau a Rangitāne. He ingoa anō tō Rangitāne ko Rangitānenui Tānenuiārangi Rāngitānehuiārangi nei te mihi ki a koutou! Nō hea? Ā nō Hawaiki tēnei iwi i tae ā-tinana ki tēnei Whare ki tēnei wā me ō koutou tupuna kai muri i a koutou ko Whātonga tēnā Te Kaihautū o Te Waka Kurahaupō tae atu ki a Nukutaurua. Ā ko tana mokopuna tēnā i moe i te mokopuna a Kupe kai roto i te toto te tipi me te haere kai roto i a koutou! Ā Rangitāne ki Te Wairarapa ki Tāmaki-nui-ā-Rua ki Te Wairau ki Horowhenua ā ki Manawatū.Nā reira kai te mihi kai te mihi ki a koutou katoa. Ā kua kōrero kē nei ōku hoa mahi i ngā take kai roto i tō koutou kerēme harikoa ahau kua tae ki tēnei wā. Kei konei koutou ā-tinana ā-kanohi ki te whakarongo ā-taringa kia kite ā-karu kia rongo ā-wairua hoki ki te hōhonutanga o tēnei pire. Nā reira kai te pīrangi au kia hāngai aku kōrero ki tētahi wāhanga ō tō koutou kerēme.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.A myriad of stars in the skyRangitāne upon the landIt is said a humble people they arearise stand up.Greetings to you my pillars my many kinsfolk amongst you;I acknowledge you.I stand before you to express my thoughts and to pay a tribute to the very many of your dead and ancestors who did not make it here today before they passed away;my thoughts are with you.This is a magnificent day and I congratulate you. I have much admiration for you as I stand here humbly before you to reveal to the great and vast number listening in yes the moment and time has arrived.So some thoughts about this tribe of ours Rangitāne. It has other names: Rangitānenui Tānenuiārangi and Rangitānehuiārangi.I salute you.Where is this tribe from? From Hawaiki! It has arrived here bodily at this House at this point in time with your ancestors behind you; for example Whātonga commander of the Kurahaupō canoe including Nukutaurua. That grandchild of his married Kupe’s grandchildand so roaming around calling in at places is in the blood. It is in you! Examples of this tendency are Rangitāne at Te Wairarapa Dannevirke Blenheim Horowhenuaand Manawatū.And so I commend and congratulate you all. My colleagues have already alluded to the contents of your claimand I am overjoyed it has reached this stage. You are here physically to see and hear spiritually the connections of this bill. Therefore I would like to align my sentiments to a part of your claim.]I just want to concentrate for a short period of time on one aspect of the settlement—the awa the beating heart of Manawatū. Yes there are a number of other awa that are included in the redress. At the time when Manawatū the rohe was settled the awa its beating heart was in a pristine state. It is now considered one of the most polluted rivers in the world and this is how it is returned to you. Shame on us—shame on us. Our people live next to rivers. Manawatū wai was acknowledged as the life source of our people. We do not just say “he maunga tēnā he marae tēnā he awa tēnā” [“that is a mountain a marae and a river”]for fun. These are the things that kept us alive: our tūrangawaewae our maunga our pātūwatawata and our awa. And the beating heart of Manawatū pivotal to Rangitāne is being returned as one of the most polluted rivers in the world.I want to acknowledge Te Mana o te Wai fund and our work with the Minister Nick Smith in being able to provide some help some awhi to try to restore that river. There is no doubt that you will take the opportunity as kaitiaki restored again a-ture nei to you all to look after that beating heart—and who better? Who better? So I want to acknowledge you here today understanding that the settlement will never go as far as it needs to go. And here is the prime example of that. Alhough yes guardianship of the river is part of the settlement—the river is absolutely pivotal to you—this is the state it is returned in.I look forward to hearing your kōrero in this House when we meet as a select committee. I look forward to addressing you all. I look forward to the day when this process is finished and we can all move ahead again. We seem to be in limbo. I want to say that although the time is fast spent this is an important day. The last thing I want to say is that when you look around the Manawatū the region there is plenty of money there. There are plenty of flash cars plenty of beautiful houses but they all belong in the hands of the people who own the land and when you have been left landless it is a long haul back from there.Nā reira ahakoa te uaua o tēnei tūāhuatanga he rangi ātaahua tēnei! Ka taea te tiro whakamua mō ngā rangi kai te heke mai tēnā koutou tēnā koutou. Ka whakaae ana au ki tēnei pire. Kia ora.[And sodespite the difficulty of this type of situation this is a beautiful day. It is possible to look ahead to forthcoming days in the not so distant future. Well done and good on you. I commend this bill. Thank you.]