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October 03, 2024
Mana motuhake fears as Ngāpuhi hapū talk settlements
Adam Gifford
Posted On October 3, 2024
Download AudioThe chair of Te Kotahitanga o Ngā Hapū ō Ngāpuhi says yesterday’s meeting with Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith was a good start to forming the relationship needed to settle claims in the north.
Pita Tipene, who also chairs Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Hine, says the minister acknowledged the need to allow the hapū to configure themselves as they see fit, rather than corral the iwi into a single commercial settlement as his predecessors tried to do.
He says people at the hui also reinforced that the hapu of Ngāpuhi had never ceded sovereignty to the crown.
“So people are very, very nervous about progressing treaty settlements knowing the sovereignty or the mana motuhake kaupapa could be at play and the people want to move on, the hapū want to move forward but they are very nervous about that question that may say they are undermining their mana motuhake by even following this process let along signing up to something,” Mr Tipene says.
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