October 31, 2022
Formal apology to Ngāti Maru
The Crown has apologised to Ngāti Maru for its historic breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Andrew Little told a hui at Te Upoko o te Whenua Marae at Tarata on Saturday the Crown acknowledged its unjust and indiscriminate raupatu of half their tribal lands, the unjust treatment and exile of Ngāti Maru peoples, its unconscionable actions at Parihaka, and actions which rendered the iwi almost completely landless.
As a consequence, generations of Ngāti Maru were severed from their whenua its people have suffered economic, social, cultural and spiritual hardship.
As part of the ceremony Minister Little presented framed copies of land titles returned through the settlement.