Fox Marama: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFox Marama: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11199. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party):E Te Mana Whakawā tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e hui ā-kanohi nei i tēnei rā koutou i hara mai ā-tinana ki te whakarongo ā-taringa ki te tiro atu ā-karu ā ki te rongo ā-wairua hoki ki te kiko o ngā kōrero kua whārikihia i tēnei rā nei te mihi atu ki a koutou i roto i ō koutou mate i tēnei wā ngā mate o te wiki o te marama o te tau ēngari anō mō ngā tahi rau tau kua hipa ō koutou tūpuna i mate mai i roto i te pakanga o Ōmarunui kai te mihi atu ki a rātou katoa. Ā nā reira tēnā koutou tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou katoa.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker and greetings to you gathered here physically face to face on this day to hear see and spiritually experience the gist of these contributions delivered before you. I acknowledge you collectively in regard to your deaths at this point in time—not just those of the week month or year but those as well of the past hundred years your ancestors who died in the battle of Ōmarunui. I do pay a tribute to them all so greetings and salutations to you collectively. My appreciation to us all.]Ngāti Hineuru like many other iwi in Aotearoa you have suffered. Ngāti Hineuru suffered land confiscation under the New Zealand Settlements Act suffered in the Land Wars at Ōmarunui near Pētane where Te Rangi Hīroa lost his life. The involvement of Hineuru with Te Kooti and your participation in the peaceful Pai Mārire movement branded the people as rebels which yielded unwarranted attacks. The tūpuna who survived those attacks were exiled—exiled from the ancestral lands to the Chathams. Whilst the people were exiled the lands were plundered rendering the people of Hineuru virtually landless. In fact some of the land was given to other iwi. The Crown detained the ancestors of Hineuru and executed those ancestors without trial. When settlement negotiations started in 2009 Hineuru negotiators provided a set of pou representing the settlement aspirations: mai i Hineuru mō Hineuru [from Hineuru for Hineuru].But what is most astounding to me in the history of this people is the significance of the landholdings the strategic landholdings in a pivotal part of the central North Island that you once held. They were the arterial routes between Hawke’s Bay and Taupō Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty. They included Rangitaiki and Kāingaroa which in your submission was explained as a mahinga kai area and bordered by Maungaharuru Te Waka Range and the Kāweka Range where the settlement was—a significant part of the central North Island. What is astounding is that despite that huge area after decimating your people the Crown did not even acknowledge your status as an iwi and you were left out of the fisheries settlement because of what the Crown decided you were because the Crown wanted to make a decision about who you were and where you got to live. You know from that prominent position that you held and then becoming landless what is again astounding to me is the small area that is coming back to you—the small parcel of land that is coming back to you the Hineuru people. You have had to use the settlement money to purchase some more land and the small amount of money the people get is being subsumed further by having to purchase more land.I ask myself why. I have a 5-minute callonly but I ask myself: why do we do this? When will Aotearoa recognise the gift that our people give in their settlements because if we took all that should have been returned our country could not afford it. You the Hineuru people have answered why: through your pou: tuatahi restoration protection cultural heritage—aroha mai Mr Assistant Speaker. Your pou explains it. Nō reira tēnā koutou kia ora mai tātou katoa.