August 13, 2018
Ngāti Rangi swots up for settlement
Ngāti Rangi swots up for settlement
The lead negotiator for Ngāti Rangi says lots of preparation is essential before tribes sit down to negotiate with the crown.
The central North Island iwi was in Wellington last week for the first reading of its settlement legislation.
It’s set to receive $17 million in commercial redress including the Karioi Crown Forest.
Cultural redress includes a new framework for managing the Whangaehu River, Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika, from the Crater Lake on Mount Ruapehu to the sea, and the returb and gifting back to the crown of Defence Force land around Waiōuru.
Mr Wilson says before talks started the iwi discussed with neighbouring iwi and some of the bigger post-settlement tribes what they could expect through the negotiating process.
"Treaty settlement isn't the answer to everything that people think it is. It's not justice and if you go in clear knowing that it's into the red ribbon that everybody puts it out as, that will help direct your pathway," he says.
Che Wilson says it was great to hear three MPs with Ngāti Rangi connections speak in the first reading debate, Adrian Rurawhe from labour and Harete Hipango and Jo Hayes from National.
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