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31st
JUL

Whanau insist body stays put

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Relatives who took the body of a man from his partner and children, claiming Maori custom, say they did nothing wrong and have no intention of returning it despite a court ruling against them. The Tuhoe relatives are standing firm after the High Court ruled that they had no legal authority to take the body of James Takamore from his family in Christchurch in 2007 and bury him at Kutarere in the Bay of Plenty. But although the court has determined that Mr Takamore’s long-time Pakeha partner, Denise Clarke, has rights to bury his body where she sees fit, Justice John Fogarty did not order that the body be exhumed. Instead, he invited Tuhoe to disinter it or to get…

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31st

Tribunal confirms Pomare evictions

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Three families in the notorious Pomare state housing block will be evicted after their Tenancy Tribunal bid to stay failed. Housing New Zealand said it would enforce the possession orders if necessary after the women had previously vowed to stay put. In March, five households in Farmer Cres with Mongrel Mob links were issued 90-day notices terminating their tenancies after “severely disturbing the community”. There had been complaints of intimidation, burglary and anti-social behaviour by the families and their gang-member partners. It was alleged a family and immigrants had fled the street after being intimidated. Two of the families moved before their notices expired. But Billy Taylor, Robyn Winther and Huia Tamaka appealed to the tribunal to have the orders…

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31st

Historic first as Crown forgiven by iwi

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“And now it is finished,” former governor-general Sir Paul Reeves said. He had just read the first statement of forgiveness from an iwi to the Crown but the meaning was broader than that. The bill finalising the $25 million Port Nicholson Treaty settlement for a group of Taranaki iwi was finished, passed into law in Parliament yesterday. And an apology from the Crown for a litany of past wrongs was finished, read by Prime Minister John Key in a crowded Beehive theatre last night. “Our forgiveness comes from our painful history,” Sir Paul, deputy chairman of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust, said before reading the statement. “And apology, forgiveness, leads on to the greatest prize, which is reconciliation.” Iwi…

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31st

Sharples eyes Maori bank

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A bank or fund to lend to Maori businesses is being considered by Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples. Dr Sharples declined yesterday to provide detail on the bank, saying it was an early stage idea, but said his Maori Affairs Economic Taskforce was “investigating this issue, along with a range of other initiatives to foster Maori economic participation and success”. “Access to capital funding is an ongoing issue for all businesses, particularly in the current economic climate. Maori businesses sometimes face additional challenges, particularly where there is a limited ability to secure finance due to the communal nature of asset holdings, for example Maori land.” It is not the first time the idea of a Maori bank has been suggested….

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30th
JUL

Law change the nudge I needed, says Maori leader

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A Maori leader in Northland says the law banning force to correct children gave her the impetus in a private battle to stop smacking. Anahera Herbert-Graves, chief executive of the Kaitaia-based Runanga A Iwi O Ngati Kahu, says she was hit regularly as a child and has been determined to break the cycle. She “thrashed” her daughter when she was 14 but resolved to avoid any kind of physical or verbal abuse four years ago after she and her husband became whangai parents of her now 8-year-old grandson. “Yes, I’ve slipped a couple of times, but … the whole climate has changed for us and that has strengthened our determination,” she said.

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30th

Indigenous top level domain sought

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The Maori Internet Society is pushing for a new top level Internet domain space for indigenous peoples. Chairperson Karaitiana Taiuru says it will join other indigenous groups in asking Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to create dot-indigi as an alternative to addresses like dot com or dot nz. He says the moderated space will make it harder for cyber-squatters to exploit indigenous groups who want their own piece of the world wide web. “Individual or a company will register specific indigenous domain names and then offer them back for sale, sometimes for millions of dollars. The dot indigi name space will eliminate all theft and intellectual property issues by only allowing certain indigenous groups to create…

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30th

‘Maori need to accept Pakeha customs’

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Rural Maori need to start accepting Pakeha customs, Maori protocol expert Dr Ranginui Walker says following a court ruling today in favour of a widow whose husband’s body was snatched by relatives. Tuhoe relatives of James Takamore took his body without his wife Denise Clarke’s permission in 2007 and buried it at Kutarere Marae, near Opotiki, in the Bay of Plenty. Ms Clark has been fighting this month in the High Court at Christchurch to get his body back. She said her husband had lived with her in Christchurch for 20 years. He had wanted to be buried there and had little contact with his North Island family. Justice John Fogarty’s reserved decision released today ruled in her favour, but…

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30th

In full voice

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More than 1000 packed into New Plymouth’s TSB Stadium yesterday for the Taranaki Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka Competition. The event was run as part of the Taranaki International Festival of the Arts. This year the competition had a record number of entries with 21 schools participating and nine competing. Event manager Wharehoka Wano said kapa haka was growing in popularity. “The numbers have definitely gotten higher,” Mr Wano says. “It’s enjoying a renaissance, there is more Maori and non-Maori becoming interested in kapa haka and in the language.” And yesterday’s performances proved to judges the groups had been working on their craft. “We had some outstanding performances,” Mr Wano says. The first-placed group was Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Ngati…

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30th

Sculpture lined up for Patea

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The whale bone sculpture that caused controversy in Opunake looks set to get a second chance at a spot in South Taranaki. Support for Tutunui’s Garden finding a home in Patea was unanimous at yesterday’s South Taranaki District Council iwi liaison committee meeting in Hawera. The council initially planned to install the sculpture in Opunake, but changed its mind when the local mana whenua did not support the move. In March the council decided to try to find another place to install the work gifted by the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust (Taft). Since then both Ngati Ruanui and Nga Ruahine had held hui to speak to iwi members and, at a committee meeting last month, there was support for a…

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30th

Students are all action for Maori Language Week

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Three Richmond schools celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Maori or Maori Language Week in signature style yesterday with a giant haka powhiri on the grounds of Waimea College involving about 1700 students. The haka powhiri, or a chant and dance of welcome, took place on the school tennis courts with students from Salisbury School, Waimea Intermediate and Waimea College taking part. Waimea College cultural captain Keryn Filer, 17, said the idea for the event came from wanting to include as many people as possible. “We just wanted to get everybody involved and get everyone interested in Maori Language Week. This just seemed like a good way to do it.” Waimea College teacher Rowena Hart said the haka powhiri brought…

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30th

Kaka better street by design

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A macron in the Maori language can make all the difference - just ask the kids who go to Te Kura Kaupapa o Te Hiringa in Tokoroa. Each day the children would walk past the Kaka Cres sign on the way to school laughing because in the Maori language Kaka, as was written on the sign until 2006, means faeces. Kaka is the native parrot. Charlie Te Pana, who is the language specialist for the Raukawa Trust Board, said some of the children on the street had been too embarrassed to say where they lived. So the Raukawa Trust Board decided to step in, and the Tokoroa-based group lobbied the South Waikato Council to rectify the sign. As a result…

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30th

Burial win for widow

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A Christchurch widow has won a landmark case allowing her to bring the body of her husband back from a North Island marae, where his extended family took it for burial. However, a High Court judgment stops short of ordering the disinterment of James Takamore, saying his widow, Denise Clarke, and his Tuhoe relatives should try again to resolve the dispute. If they cannot agree, there was an opportunity to return to the judge for an order, said Clarke’s solicitor, Gary Knight. Takamore died of an aneurism in August 2007, but before he could be buried in Christchurch his North Island relatives took his body away. His burial at the Kutarere marae near Opotiki, in the Bay of Plenty, went…

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