Title: Te Urewera
Description: "Volume I contains chapters 1 to 5. The first two chapters describe Te Urewera, and their development over generations as hapu and iwi by the time of substantial contact with Europeans in the 1860s. Chapter 3 looks at the Tūhoe 'constitutional claim', which concerns the Treaty implications of the fact that Tūhoe did not sign the Treaty, while chapter 4 concerns the Crown's 1866 confiscation of a large tract of Māori land in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Chapter 5 examines the military expeditions launched by the Crown into Te Urewera between 1869 and 1871, following the alliance of Tūhoe and Ngāti Whare with the messianic leader Te Kooti"--Front flap

"Volume II contains chapters 6 to 9. Chapter 6 looks at the Crown's military operations in the upper Wairoa and Waikaremoana region in 1865 and 1866, and chapter 7 examines the complex chain of events that led to the Crown's acquisition of over 178,000 acres of land extending to the southern shores of Lake Waikaremoana (the 'four southern blocks'). Chapter 8 concerns the council Te Whitu Tekau established by Tūhoe and Ngāti Whare, which gave effect to their autonomy - te mana motuhake - following the end of military conflict in 1871, while chapter 9 looks at the unique Urewera District Native Reserve Act 1896, which created a 656,000-acre reserve within which the Crown granted powers of self-government to the peoples of Te Urewera and collective tribal control of their lands"--Front flap.

"Volume III contains chapters 10, 11, and 12. Chapter 10 reviews claims concerning the Native Land Court and the massive loss of land that took place in the blocks encircling the Urewera District Native Reserve (the 'rim blocks'). Chapter 11 examines how Ngāti Haka Patuheuheu lost the ownership of the Waiohau block - their ancestral land - through fraud, and chapter 12 looks at the claims of Te Whānau-a-kai, Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Tūhoe, and Ngāti Kahungunu concerning their respective blocks in the Tahora 2 lands"--Front flap.

"Volume IV contains chapters 13 and 14. Chapter 13 looks at why the promise of the Urewera District Native Reserve Act 1896 - which was to provide for Tūhoe self-government through a General Committee - was not fulfilled, and whether the Crown was to blame for the demise of the reserve and the loss of much of the land it was supposed to protect. Chapter 14 examines the Urewera Consolidation Scheme, which was designed to consolidate into a single vast block the many interests the Crown had purchased in the Urewera reserve and separate it from the remaining Māori lands. It also considers the failure of the Crown to deliver on its promises to Māori that they would receive secure title to their own new consolidated blocks, as well as two arterial roads, to allow them to take advantage of economic opportunities such as farming and sawmilling"--Front flap.

"Volume V contains chapter 15, 16, and 17. Chapter 15 looks at the impacts that the Crown's failure to properly implement the Urewera District Native Reserve Act 1896 had on the mana motuhake and mana whenua of the peoples of Te Urewera. Chapter 16 examines the painful history of the creation of te Urewera National Park, which comprises over half a million acres of former Urewera reserve lands guaranteed to the peoples of Te Urewera in 1896, and chapter 17 concerns Tūhoe spiritual leader Rua Kenana Hepetipa, who was a pivotal figure in the changing relationship between the Crown and Tūhoe communities in the early years of the twentieth century, and examines the circumstances and the conduct of the military-style expedition undertaken to arrest him"--Front flap.

"Volume VI contains chapters 18, 19, and 20. Chapter 18 concerns two forms of Crown intervention in the economic opportunities available to the peoples of Te Urewera in the twentieth century: the channeling of State funds into Māori farming and imposing of blanket restrictions on the logging of native timber on Māori land for the greater part of the period since the 1930s. Chapter 19 discusses a number of specific grievances that concern the Ruatoki-Waiohau consolidation scheme, the failure to implement a consolidation scheme for Ngāti Manawa, the ownership of the Ruatoki water scheme, the terms of the Te Whāiti Nui-a-Toi forestry lease, and the amalgamation of land titles into four new blocks. Chapter 20 looks at Lake Waikaremoana, a taonga of immense importance to Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani, and Ngāti Kahungunu (including Ngāi Tamaterangi), the long-running dispute between the Crown and Māori over its ownership, despite the Native Land Court's recognition of Māori ownership in 1918, the Crown's control of the lake for hydroelectricity purposes, and the final negotiation of the Crown's lease of the lake in 1971"--Front flap.

"Volume VII contains chapters 21 and 22. Chapter 21 canvasses the massive changes that the environment of Te Urewera - its forests and waterways, with their birds, eels, and native fish - has been subject to since the 1890s, and it considers three major topics: Crown interventions in the Te Urewera environment from 1895 to 1954, the management of Whirinaki Forest, and the extent to which the Crown has asserted ownership, authority, and control over Te Urewera rivers and riverbeds. Chapter 22 considers a number of discrete claims in four broad categories: claims relating to public works, claims relating to rating, claims relating to cultural property, and claims relating to schools in the district"--Front flap.

"Volume VIII comprises chapter 23, the appendixes, and the glossary and bibliography. Chapter 23 deals with the reality of everyday life for Māori in Te Urewera from the 1890s until the tribunal hearings in the first decade of the twenty-first century and describes the socio-economic effects of the various Crown Treaty breaches identified in the report. The appendixes list the claims by Wai number, outline the select record on inquiry, reproduce the Urewera District Native Reserve Act 1896, Ture Rāhui Māori o te Takiwa o te Urewera 1896, and the Urewera Lands Act 1921-22, and tabulate the first Urewera Commission's hearings and the results of its work, and the outcomes of the Crown's consolidation process in respect of the lands in the former Urewera District Native Reserve"--Front flap.
Subjects: Ngāi Tūhoe (New Zealand people), Government relations, Claims, Maori (New Zealand people), History, Tiriti o Waitangi, Kerēme (Tiriti o Waitangi), Mana whenua, Mana motuhake, Whakatau mauri, Kāwanatanga, Noho-ā-iwi, Whenua raupatu, Kōrero nehe, Ture whenua, Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty of Waitangi (1840 February 6)
Places: New Zealand, Te Urewera (N.Z.), Waikaremoana, Lake (N.Z.), Lake Waikaremoana