Henare Tau: Ngati Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Bill Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: Ngati Toa Rangatira Claims Settlement Bill Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill — Third Readings[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17399. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TAU HENARE (National): Te mea tuatahi anei taku mihi ki a Ngati Toa Rangatira tēnā koutou. Tēnā koutou a koutou i haere mai nei i tēnei rā te rā whakahirahira mō koutou mō mātou nō reira tēnā koutou katoa.[The first thing is my tribute to Ngati Toa Rangatira congratulations. Acknowledgments to you and to those who came today on this important day for you and for us all. So well done to you all.]There have been several platitudes offered up to various people. I want to start by saying that my cousin Shane Jones continues to give great speeches continues to tell a story in his way and as only he can. I could listen to Shane all day apart from when he talks politics. But I do want to make particular mention to—Hon Trevor Mallard: The feeling’s probably mutual.Hon TAU HENARE: Sorry?Hon Trevor Mallard: The feeling’s probably mutual.Hon TAU HENARE: That is most probably right. I want to pay particular respects to a person who is not here now and that isPātariki Rei. I do remember when I became a member of Parliament having a couple of hui with him. I was astounded to find out that he has aNgāpuhi link like most of the country and that is through Matauri Bay and through our tupuna Tametame. Ngā mihi nunui ki a ia ki a koe Matiu.[Huge greetings to him and to you Matiu.]If you read various Treaty settlement pieces of legislation you will find that over a very very short period people starting out with thousands upon thousands of acres a people with their own economy a people who were highly regarded for their exploits became landless. In this particular case over a 20-year period from 1840 to 1860 you have what could only be classed as theft and genocide and all sorts of words that we are wont to use these days. In a matter of less than 100 years they became as other iwi have become and that is landless. When you take that land away you take away a whole part of a people.I want to talk about the attribution of Ka Mate. When the bill was introduced to the House and it was called the Haka Ka Mate Attribution Bill I did not know what thatword “attribution” meant. I am only fromŌtara. I am not a university graduate. So I looked it up. I looked up the word “attribution”. There is a whole whakapapa of this word “attribution”. Back in the day in England there was a kawa a kaupapa a way of doing things in the pub. If you did not have any money on you you could go in and you could get a piece of chalk and put down on a slate what you were drinking. That is where the terms “chalk it up” and “put it on the slate” come from as some of us have been wont to do over the years.Hon Trevor Mallard: In the back room here.Hon TAU HENARE: In the back room here. But that is what attribution means. So we can chalk this haka up to Ngati Toa and Te Rauparaha. The first time I came across Te Rauparaha was when I was a kid at Hillary College. Bill Tāwhai was our Māori teacher. We got to know about who composed the haka. We got to know about who Ngati Toa Rangatira were and are. I will always doff my cap to Bill Tāwhai for being the sort of teacher whom New Zealand deserved then and now.I do want to say this though which is that we should not on these occasions miss the opportunity to talk about those sorts of people—you know Te Rauparaha Kawiti Pōtatau; all the big names of our past all the big players on the stage that was Māoridom—and to take up the challenge that the Minister of Māori Affairs has talked about today about our education system. It is now time when this country has moved on so much that we should make our history part of the curriculum.I make this plea: that the next Government whomever it may be seriously investigates and puts into practice what most other countries do anyway—that is have our own history as a particular subject in our schools primary intermediate and college. We need to call it New Zealand history and talk about it all—not just the nice bits but everything. You know you cannot have war without another side. In the Wairau affair you could not have had a Wairau affair with one person—you know you cannot have an affair with one person anyway.Hon Chester Borrows: Oh you can.Hon TAU HENARE: Well you could I suppose if you think about it. But with the Wairau affair when the Māori Affairs Committee went to the South Island to hear submissions we heard about this that and the other thing and about how terrible it was. We heard the Māori history. Let us not forget that there were a couple of dozen European settlers who perished and died in the affray—in the affair. We should not be shy to talk about the whole rather than the part of our history. So I do make that plea: that wherever we go when we are talking about Te Rauparaha we do not see him as only a composer because there had to be an affair. There had to be a reason for—and I am not saying that the Wairau affair led up to the haka but there has to be something that leads a man like that or any person to compose a verse that explains their situation. So we should not be scared of or be shy about talking about the whole rather than just the part.In this House Thursdays are becoming the day when we talk about New Zealand’s history. Like I said before I make a passionate plea for the next Minister of Education whomever they may be—Chester? I make the plea that that is one of the first things we do.Hon Trevor Mallard: Hey Tau.Hon TAU HENARE: Hi Trevor. I want that to be one of the first things they do because I tell you what it will bring our nation closer together just as the passage of these bills brings the nation closer together. Hoi anō taku mihi ki a koutou katoa e aku rangatira e aku kaumātua e aku kuia tēnā koutou katoa.[So congratulations to you all my leaders elderly men and womenfolk. Thank you all.]