Iwi

Playing hard to get.

Um, So in 1856, they finally found their guy and a bunch of Iwi united behind and a bunch of Maori nations united behind a guy from Waikato, which is in the south of the North Island.

And he became the king in 1858.

The reason why I didn't say his name was he died in 1860 and his son, Tewa, became the king.

I think trying to maintain that momentum, um, has been a bit of a challenge for all the different political movements.

Um, I did, like, this kind of poll thing on my Instagram where I asked rangatahi, like, how much do you care about this election coming up and why? And what was really interesting was that lots of the kura kaupapa, kura a Iwi kids were, like, 10 locked in taiao, Tiriti protection, all this kind of stuff.

And then lots of the rangatahi that follow me that go to m- more mainstream schools were, like, three out of 10, um, "I don't really see how this is gonna impact me.

I don't think I can make a difference." So I thought the ...

Obviously the kura kaupapa and the kura a Iwi are doing a really good job at, at-

Mm

... making ranga- um, rangatahi understand how important their voice is.

Do you think the online campaigns, I mean, we've seen what Tania Waikato do with Māori enrollments onto the Māori roll, do you think that online campaigns are gonna cut through in this election? 'Cause they haven't previously.

It's rewarding, it's humbling, and it's at the same time an eye-opener in ways that shows you in your face that we have been blind for a long time.

So I've been working for many years now with Iwi here.

in the development of future productive landscape using Mataranga Maori or Mataranga of each particular iwi.

Lately we've been working quite a lot in the North Island with Mataranga Tifakatohea.

Essentially the one year anniversary or two year anniversary or one year anniversary of the coronation of Tikwini.

Is that correct? because she had like a year of mourning and then was officially coronated so it's been a year so it's a one-year anniversary um and uh from my ignorant perspective because i'm still learning about all of these things it's uh very similar to waitangi in some ways um which we had today the politicians turn up and basically get a telling off which i appreciated very much and, uh, Iwi leaders, uh, not holding back, which is great.

And I think that's, that is very much what we like to see in these, uh, situations.

Cause it's, uh, I kind of see it, uh, as like, as the politicians coming onto their turf and it's really their, uh, opportunity to, to let them have it essentially.

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right, let's have a listen.

Iwi leaders at Koroneihana have urged the coalition government not to allow treaty issues to be dismissed as radical wokeism.

Major political parties were welcomed to Turangawaewae Marae today, but leaders weren't letting the left block off lightly either.

She's voted against recommendations.

She's questioned the growing influence of Iwi representatives and ratepayers.

and objected to the way that mana whakahono o rohi agreements were being pursued.

This is the co-governance agreements.

But so what did the unelected iwi say? Because they're on that committee, aren't they?

Yes, so they wrote a supporting letter asking council to do that, which then triggered that the resolution go up to council.

So it was the Iwi based 15 signatures on the letter supporting that.

And then when I got to council from the day for the debate to be heard, I was ambushed about process and I was not informed of this complaint.

So we took them to a meeting.

We all grouped together at the Iwi office, and they, one of them started to cry 'cause she said it reminded her of how, how they are with the, in their culture-

Right

... with their people.

How were they different exactly?

So principally in terms of size, in terms of the capital investment required to get in, so we had one operating at about two and a half thousand milking ewes and that was really aimed at getting scale and that was a big business, big investment and that's translated into attracting more of our iwi Māori landowners who can operate at scale and spread that overhead and today that represents about a third of the milk coming through that model.

The next model we did was up here in the central Waikato in Cambridge.

And that was a, we call it the replica of, I guess, a New Zealand dairy goat farm.

However, the courts have yet to settle the question of Māori customary title to water, and until now, all serious attempts have been obstructed on jurisdictional grounds.

Richard Bost, Andrew Iruiti, Jacinta Duru and others have variously observed applying the precedent in Ngati Aupa that Iwi and Hapu could make out a common law claim to water, noting the high bar for extinguishment.

But I know from my time in Australia that there are significant limitations to native title and we are seeing this play out right now in terms of the Takutai Moana, the Fosha and Seabed.

Of course, there are other grounds on which a Māori claim to freshwater could be made, and I note the High Court case being brought by Ngāi Tahu in this regard.

She is the member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau.

But her, but her journey to Parliament has been grounded in lifelong service to Iwi Māori, Hapū, and Whānau, particularly māmā and wāhine.

Before entering Parliament, Māuiaminow worked extensively on the frontline with Ngāti Hine Health Trust in Whānau Ora, suicide prevention, Oranga Tamariki, the former Department of Social Welfare, Rape Crisis, and as chief executive of Te Aupōuri.

She follows in the footsteps of her tūpuna, Eperema Kapa, who served in the 11th Parliament from 1891 to 1893.

I mean, I personally, like, with my work, I'm, I'm a project manager, and I'm trying to get more involved in-

Yeah

... um, Iwi Māori clients and-

Yeah