Whaia te mana motuhake
Subtitle: In pursuit of mana motuhake : report on the Māori Community Development Act Claim
Series: Waitangi Tribunal report -- 2014
Publisher: Legislation Direct
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781869563103; 9781869563134
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people); Politics and government; Legal status, laws; New Zealand; Treaty of Waitangi
Other titles: In pursuit of mana motuhake
Notes: "This report was previously released on the Internet in 2014 in electronic pre-publication format as Whaia te Mana Motuhake / In Pursuit of Mana Motuhake : Report on the Māori Community Development Act Claim, Pre-publication Version"--Publisher's information.

"WAI 2417."

"This is the Waitangi Tribunal's report of its inquiry into a claim filed on behalf of the New Zealand Māori Council under section 6(1) of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. The claimants alleged that the Crown, through Te Puni Kōkiri, in reviewing the Māori Community Development Act 1962 and the role of Māori Wardens, had acted in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. The claimants further claimed that, in developing and administering the Māori Wardens Project, Te Puni Kōkiri breached Treaty principles by diminishing or excluding the authority of the NZMC and District Māori Councils to administer Māori Wardens in terms of both the 1962 Act and the compact to which that Act gave effect. The Tribunal considered the relevant principles of the Treaty and how, if at all, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples had informed those Treaty principles. It concluded that the Māori Community Development Act 1962 and its amendments embody a compact (negotiated between 1959 and 1963) that gave statutory recognition and powers to institutions established by the Māori people for their own self-government. The compact reflects the Crown's recognition that Māori rangatiratanga or Māori autonomy and self-government must be protected and provided for at all levels (local, regional, and national), as required by article 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Tribunal also looked at the history of the Māori Wardens and their unique position in the New Zealand legal system before and after the passing of the 1962 Act. It considered the wardens to be an integral operational component of this system of Māori self-government, but it found that the system of administering the wardens (as outlined in the 1962 Act) was dated and needed amendment"--Publisher's information.

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The challenge; title: ch. 2. The Treaty and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; title: ch. 3. A cherished thought emerges; title: ch. 4; title: The pathway to mana motuhake; title: ch. 5. Service to the people; title: ch. 6. The sun sets and a new dawn shines forth; title: ch. 7. The Māori wardens project; title: ch. 8. Feathers enable birds to fly; title: ch. 9. Warranting wardens; title: ch. 10. Findings and recommendations.