Sharples Pita: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Sharples Pita: Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading 
[Sitting date: 19 September 2012. Volume:684;Page:5475. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon Dr PITA SHARPLES (Minister of Maori Affairs) 
 on behalf of the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: I move  
That the Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill be now read a second time 
. From the shores of Whangaparaoa in the south to the cliffs of Paepae o Tu in the north from the western tides of Koritoti Otakamaitu through the currents of te awa o Hoteo flowing on to Kikitangiao Hauhanganui to the pa of Te Arai o Tahuhu. The children of Manuhiri the people of  
Moekaraka 
 waka nau mai haere mai. Ko Tamahunga te maunga ko Nga Poitoa o Te Kupenga o Toi Te Huatahi te moana ko Ngati Manuhiri te hapu ko Omaha te marae. 
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Tamahunga is the mountain Nga Poitoa o Te Kupenga o Toi Te Huatahi is the ocean Ngati Manuhiri is the subtribe and Omaha is the courtyard. 
] 
It was at Omaha Marae that the peoples of Ngati Manuhiri gathered with the Crown in May last year to sign a deed to settle their Treaty of Waitangi grievances with the Crown. The agreement was the first settlement deed signed in the Tamaki-makau-rau region. Those actions bring us all here today to consider the Ngati Manuhiri Claims Settlement Bill. 
A key part of this settlement bill will be the official recognition of tipuna Maori names throughout the homelands of Ngati Manuhiri. In recent weeks in Auckland some have been asking what is in a name. The Hon Tau Henare spoke to this before in reference to Maori names. But my response is that a name is a history a name is a whakapapa a heritage—a name is everything. The Hon Parekura Horomia also supported this view. Over the years Maori heritage was gradually removed from the official identity of this and many other regions. Maori identity was renamed and replaced. However bills such as this one we are debating today seek to restore that identity throughout our country. 
Little Barrier Island was named because the explorer Captain James Cook decided that it looked like a little barrier. Bream Tail was named because Cook’s crew caught a lot of bream fish or snapper while they were anchored nearby. No one really knows why Goat Island got its name as no one can ever remember goats living on it. These are names we have grown accustomed to sometimes attached to but they are only one side of the story of Aotearoa. It is Little Barrier Island in English but what in Te Reo Maori? It is Te Hauturu-o-Toi. The resting place of the winds—Te Hauturu-o-Toi. It is the centre pole of the great net of Taramainuku. The descendants of Taramainuku lived at Bream Tail or as they knew it Paepae o Tu. It is Goat Island in English but in Te Reo Maori it is Te Hawere-a-Maki taking us back to the warrior chieftain Maki the father of Manuhiri from whom all Ngati Manuhiri descend. 
The television programme  
Who Do You Think You Are? 
 sees celebrities rediscovering their whakapapa their family tree. For New Zealanders the settlement of historical Treaty of Waitangi claims is our own version of  
Who Do You Think You Are? 
. How else can we know who we are if we do not know our own names? How can we know where we are heading if we do not know where we have been? In a region like Auckland as mentioned earlier with few modern Maori landmarks it makes it even more important to ensure our ancestral Maori landmarks carry the names and heritage of the mana whenua of Tamaki-makau-rau. If we are to share a nation together then New Zealanders must also embrace our shared history and our shared place names. 
Based at Omaha Marae Ngati Manuhiri describe their ancestral interests as extending along the eastern seaboard from Whangaparaoa in the south to Paepae o Tu in the north. In the west those interests extend to the coastal range from Koritoti and Otakamaitu near Araparera to the Hoteo River and on to Kikitangiao and Hauhanganui which is Wellsford. They then run north-east from Patumakariri near Wellsford to the east coast of Te Arai o Tahuhu which is Te Arai Point and Paepae o Tu. 
Around 1840 Ngati Manuhiri held customary interests over 250000 acres. By the 1890s they had lost 90 percent of their traditional lands. Today in 2012 with only 1300 acres or so in small multiple-owned holdings Ngati Manuhiri are effectively landless in their own homelands. The Crown’s alienation of Ngati Manuhiri lands began less than a year after Te Tiriti o Waitangi was first signed in 1840. It began with the forced Mahurangi and Omaha purchase. It continued with the Crown’s individualisation and fragmentation of Ngati Manuhiri lands. It was consolidated by the painful and forced eviction of Ngati Manuhiri rangatira and families from Te Hauturu-o-Toi island. 
The Crown breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi have been carried over many years by generations of Ngati Manuhiri people. Without the land and resources to take ownership of their own destiny for generations of Ngati Manuhiri people their right to determine their own economic and social well-being was denied. This landlessness meant that the right of Ngati Manuhiri to uphold their own mana motuhake to exercise their own rangatiratanga was denied. 
 All those things lost due to the actions of the Crown can never be totally replaced. Yet the people of Ngati Manuhiri wish to settle their grievances with the Crown with mana and with honour. Over the years and across generations the Ngati Manuhiri people have led a long journey that has brought them to New Zealand’s House of Representatives today. Through perseverance through conviction and through leadership they have reached a strong settlement for their people. I look forward to this bill proceeding to the Committee stage without delay. Thank you.