Arawa, CNI, Te Roroa settlements enacted
It was a bumper day for treaty claims, with Parliament passing the final stage of three settlement bills and introducing two more.
They included the largest composite deal, the $400 million Central North Island Forests Lands Collective Settlement and $38 million Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi and Hapu Claims Settlement, as well as one of the smallest, the $9.5 million dollar Te Roroa settlement for land around the Waipoua Forest in Northland.
Negotiator Alex Nathan says while the up front cost to the Crown is the same as the small Northland iwi negotiated on the eve of the 2005 election, $6 million in sweeteners has been added to make the deal viable.
“At least those assets which were made available to us, we’re able to acquire them unencumbered, at least financially unencumbered, which is a major move from where it was, which have made it very difficult to make this work, if at all, unless there was some adjustment made, and that’s clearly what's happened,” Mr Nathan says.
Te Roroa will be able to take a more active role in looking after the health of the Waipoua forest.
The Port Nicholson Block claims settlement bill and a bill to settle the Waikato River claim were also read for the first time.
CAESARIAN BIRTHS AMONG MAORI SUBJECT OF MORE STUDY
A Maori health researcher says Maori women are less likely to give birth by Caesarian section than non-Maori.
Dr Ricci Harris from the Eru Pomare Research Centre says the 2007 national review showed 13 percent of Maori babies birthed through an abdominal incision, compared with the total figure of 21 percent.
World Health Organisation guidelines says only between 10 to 15 percent of births need to be caesarians.
Dr Ricci says more research is needed on the implications of the gap.
“An interpretation of that may be the Maori caesarian rates are better than non-Maori because we’re close to what the World Health Organisation recommends. You can’t make that assumption unless you know what the birth outcomes are for Maori women and their babies so that’s what we are trying to do with this other study, trying to see if any disparities in obstetric care translate into disparities in birth outcomes for mothers and babies,” Dr Harris says.
TE WAKA TOI LOOKING AT RESOURCE NEEDS FOR HERITAGE ARTS
Te Waka Toi wants to benchmark the health of Maori Heritage Arts.
Puawai Cairns, a policy advisor for Creative New Zealand, says the research project will help the organisation when it is making grants.
“Customary Maori art forms in things that are intrinsically Maori, and that refers to things like toi whakaaro, kowhaiwhai, whaikorero, karanga, waiata, moteatea and pao, ta moko, te raiwaka, haka, whare maire, so it’s looking at all these different art forms that have continued on through colonization into modern day, so Creative New Zealand has considered it a priority to make sure we continue to develop and fund those heritage art forms,” Ms Cairns says.
Creative New Zealand is also looking at the health of Pacific heritage arts and at cultural engagement in the wider population.
PUMAUTANGA SETTLEMENT SETS SCENE FOR LAND DIVISION
Affiliate Te Arawa iwi and hapu are tonight celebrating the passing of their treaty settlement into law.
It was part of an extraordinary amount of treaty-related activity going through Parliament under urgency today, with the related Central north island Forestry Collective and the Te Roroa claim settlement bills also passed.
Eru George from Te Pumautanga o te Arawa says flexibility and a willingness to compromise, as well as goodwill on both sides were key to achieving the settlement.
He says there is still a lot of work to do, especially with regards to the crown forestry land which makes up the bulk of the commercial settlement.
“We will be working alongside the CNI grouping and address the issues around mana whenua and then work on the maps and the land and how the titles will be changed and then look at the 35 year picture to when the land will eventually be returned to mana whenua,” Mr George says.
Now the settlement is complete Te Pumautanga will be moving towards elections for new trustees and corporate structures to manage the tribal assets.
KEY STRESSES CONSERVATIVE STEWARDSHIP IN TROUBLED TIMES
National Party leader John Key says the global financial crisis emphasises the need for post-settlement Maori organisations to manage their assets carefully.
Mr Key says the historical treaty settlement process is returning significant resources to iwi, which can be used to drive change.
But he says there is risk, which iwi organisations are aware of.
“They are very conservative and I think that’s a sensible thing in one degree and that is that this is an economic payment that won’t be repeated. It’s a one-off and therefore it’s really important that it’s preserved and enhanced and it’s not put at risk beyond any normal commercial risk and even that’s got to be managed carefully,” Mr Key says.
Good leadership is going to be needed to get the most out of settlements.
VIETNAM ORAL HISTORY SOUGHT
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage is using the Internet to uncover stories about New Zealand involvement in the Vietnam war.
History group member Paul Diamond from Ngati Haua, Te Rarawa and Nga Puhi says a disproportionate number of those who served were Maori, and they took their culture with them.
He says the researchers working on a four-year-long oral history project posted a photo of a hangi being lifted in Saigon under the direction of the head of V Force, Lieutenant Colonel Valentine Brown ... whose son was also in the picture.
“This boy's father passed away in a car accident about four years ago and we didn’t really know how to get in touch with him so we put this photo up of this hangi with this little kid in the corner of the photo watching the hangi baskets being pulled up and within a few days, over the weekend, the son had logged on to the website and started putting his photos on of the dad and the driver and the other soldiers have been identifying people in the photo and it sort of building up from there, so it’s a very exciting, rewarding project be involved with,” Mr Diamond says.
The Oral History group is keen to hear from all people involved in the Vietnam war... including those who protested against New Zealand's involvement and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
They included the largest composite deal, the $400 million Central North Island Forests Lands Collective Settlement and $38 million Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi and Hapu Claims Settlement, as well as one of the smallest, the $9.5 million dollar Te Roroa settlement for land around the Waipoua Forest in Northland.
Negotiator Alex Nathan says while the up front cost to the Crown is the same as the small Northland iwi negotiated on the eve of the 2005 election, $6 million in sweeteners has been added to make the deal viable.
“At least those assets which were made available to us, we’re able to acquire them unencumbered, at least financially unencumbered, which is a major move from where it was, which have made it very difficult to make this work, if at all, unless there was some adjustment made, and that’s clearly what's happened,” Mr Nathan says.
Te Roroa will be able to take a more active role in looking after the health of the Waipoua forest.
The Port Nicholson Block claims settlement bill and a bill to settle the Waikato River claim were also read for the first time.
CAESARIAN BIRTHS AMONG MAORI SUBJECT OF MORE STUDY
A Maori health researcher says Maori women are less likely to give birth by Caesarian section than non-Maori.
Dr Ricci Harris from the Eru Pomare Research Centre says the 2007 national review showed 13 percent of Maori babies birthed through an abdominal incision, compared with the total figure of 21 percent.
World Health Organisation guidelines says only between 10 to 15 percent of births need to be caesarians.
Dr Ricci says more research is needed on the implications of the gap.
“An interpretation of that may be the Maori caesarian rates are better than non-Maori because we’re close to what the World Health Organisation recommends. You can’t make that assumption unless you know what the birth outcomes are for Maori women and their babies so that’s what we are trying to do with this other study, trying to see if any disparities in obstetric care translate into disparities in birth outcomes for mothers and babies,” Dr Harris says.
TE WAKA TOI LOOKING AT RESOURCE NEEDS FOR HERITAGE ARTS
Te Waka Toi wants to benchmark the health of Maori Heritage Arts.
Puawai Cairns, a policy advisor for Creative New Zealand, says the research project will help the organisation when it is making grants.
“Customary Maori art forms in things that are intrinsically Maori, and that refers to things like toi whakaaro, kowhaiwhai, whaikorero, karanga, waiata, moteatea and pao, ta moko, te raiwaka, haka, whare maire, so it’s looking at all these different art forms that have continued on through colonization into modern day, so Creative New Zealand has considered it a priority to make sure we continue to develop and fund those heritage art forms,” Ms Cairns says.
Creative New Zealand is also looking at the health of Pacific heritage arts and at cultural engagement in the wider population.
PUMAUTANGA SETTLEMENT SETS SCENE FOR LAND DIVISION
Affiliate Te Arawa iwi and hapu are tonight celebrating the passing of their treaty settlement into law.
It was part of an extraordinary amount of treaty-related activity going through Parliament under urgency today, with the related Central north island Forestry Collective and the Te Roroa claim settlement bills also passed.
Eru George from Te Pumautanga o te Arawa says flexibility and a willingness to compromise, as well as goodwill on both sides were key to achieving the settlement.
He says there is still a lot of work to do, especially with regards to the crown forestry land which makes up the bulk of the commercial settlement.
“We will be working alongside the CNI grouping and address the issues around mana whenua and then work on the maps and the land and how the titles will be changed and then look at the 35 year picture to when the land will eventually be returned to mana whenua,” Mr George says.
Now the settlement is complete Te Pumautanga will be moving towards elections for new trustees and corporate structures to manage the tribal assets.
KEY STRESSES CONSERVATIVE STEWARDSHIP IN TROUBLED TIMES
National Party leader John Key says the global financial crisis emphasises the need for post-settlement Maori organisations to manage their assets carefully.
Mr Key says the historical treaty settlement process is returning significant resources to iwi, which can be used to drive change.
But he says there is risk, which iwi organisations are aware of.
“They are very conservative and I think that’s a sensible thing in one degree and that is that this is an economic payment that won’t be repeated. It’s a one-off and therefore it’s really important that it’s preserved and enhanced and it’s not put at risk beyond any normal commercial risk and even that’s got to be managed carefully,” Mr Key says.
Good leadership is going to be needed to get the most out of settlements.
VIETNAM ORAL HISTORY SOUGHT
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage is using the Internet to uncover stories about New Zealand involvement in the Vietnam war.
History group member Paul Diamond from Ngati Haua, Te Rarawa and Nga Puhi says a disproportionate number of those who served were Maori, and they took their culture with them.
He says the researchers working on a four-year-long oral history project posted a photo of a hangi being lifted in Saigon under the direction of the head of V Force, Lieutenant Colonel Valentine Brown ... whose son was also in the picture.
“This boy's father passed away in a car accident about four years ago and we didn’t really know how to get in touch with him so we put this photo up of this hangi with this little kid in the corner of the photo watching the hangi baskets being pulled up and within a few days, over the weekend, the son had logged on to the website and started putting his photos on of the dad and the driver and the other soldiers have been identifying people in the photo and it sort of building up from there, so it’s a very exciting, rewarding project be involved with,” Mr Diamond says.
The Oral History group is keen to hear from all people involved in the Vietnam war... including those who protested against New Zealand's involvement and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
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