They should tell us how the various iwi or hapu will be recognised so as to receive their entitlement. |
This model does not give fisheries to the Maori hapu and iwi that had them. |
Many iwi and hapu have been waiting for too long to see their grievances resolved. |
The pito or umbilical cord symbolically tied that child to its tribe, its whanau, its hapu, and the land it inherited. |
However, the hapu say building houses on the sacred mountain at Ngunguru would be akin to defiling Westminster Abbey or the Vatican. |
The hapu decided they would build their own waka, a canoe big enough to carry at least a dozen fishermen to sea. |