Wai 2180 3.3.71

Wai 2180, #3.3.71 BEFORE THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL WAI 2180 WAI 662 WAI 1835 WAI 1868 IN THE MATTER OF the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 AND IN THE MATTER OF the Taihape Rangitīkei ki Rangipō District Inquiry AND IN THE MATTER OF a claim by Peter Steedman, Herbert Steedman and Jordan Winiata-Haines on behalf of themselves and the descendants of Winiata Te Whaaro and hapū of Ngāti Paki (WAI 662) AND IN THE MATTER OF a claim by Lewis Winiata, Ngahapeaparatuae Roy Lomax, Herbert Steedman, Patricia Anne Te Kiriwai Cross and Christine Teariki on behalf of themselves and the descendants of Ngāti Paki me Ngāti Hinemanu (WAI 1835) AND IN THE MATTER OF a claim brought by Waina Raumaewa Hoet, Grace Hoet, Elizabeth Cox, Piaterihi Beatrice Munroe, Terira Vini, Rangimarie Harris and Frederick Hoet on behalf of themselves, their whānau and all descendants of Raumaewa Te Rango, Whatu and Pango Raumaewa (WAI 1868) CLOSING SUBMISSIONS Dated this 28th day of October 2020 ~ NNETTE SYKES & C o . barristers & solicitor s 8 – Unit 1 Marguerita Street Rotorua, 3010 Phone: 07-460-0433 Fax: 07-460-0434 Counsel Acting: Annette Sykes / Camille Dougherty Ware / Kalei Delamere- Ririnui / Tumanako Silveira Email: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] Table of Contents PART I .................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 4 TANGATA WHENUA EVIDENCE .................................................................. 8 GENERIC SUBMISSIONS................................................................................. 9 TE TIRITI O WAITANGI................................................................................. 11 WHO ARE THE CLAIMANTS? ............................................................... 14 A. CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT ISSUES ....... 36 MILITARY ENGAGEMENT .................................................................... 45 B. NINETEENTH CENTURY LAND USE, MANAGEMENT AND ALIENATION ................................................................................................... 52 NATIVE LAND COURT ............................................................................ 52 CROWN PURCHASING ............................................................................ 91 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITY ........................... 109 ARREST AND EVICTION OF WINIATA TE WHAARO AND DESTRUCTION OF POKOPOKO ......................................................... 111 C. TWENTIETH CENTURY LAND USE, MANAGEMENT AND ALIENATION ................................................................................................. 159 LAND BOARDS AND THE NATIVE/MĀORI TRUSTEE .................. 159 NATIVE TOWNSHIPS ............................................................................. 164 GIFTING OF LAND FOR SOLDIER SETTLEMENT ........................ 167 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RATING .............................................. 167 TWENTIETH CENTURY LAND ALIENATION ................................. 178 D. PUBLIC WORKS GENERAL TAKINGS (ROADS, SCENERY RESERVATION AND OTHER PURPOSES) ............................................... 198 NORTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY ....................................... 198 WAIŌURU DEFENCE LANDS ............................................................... 200 E. ENVIRONMENT ..................................................................................... 206 MANAGEMENT OF LAND, WATER AND OTHER RESOURCES . 206 POWER DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES .................................................. 216 F. MATAURANGA MĀORI ....................................................................... 219 EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES .............................................. 219 CULTURAL TAONGA ............................................................................. 226 TE REO RANGATIRA ............................................................................. 231 WĀHI TAPU .............................................................................................. 235 PART II .............................................................................................................. 243 2 RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................. 243 Relief Sought ............................................................................................... 243 NGA RONGOA – REMEDIES ....................................................................... 244 The Principle of Redress ............................................................................ 244 Tribunal Recommendations ...................................................................... 246 Recommending that the Crown Seek to Negotiate ................................. 246 The Approach to Relief .............................................................................. 246 The Restorative Approach ........................................................................ 247 Acknowledgement ...................................................................................... 251 Constitutional Redress ............................................................................... 251 Land ............................................................................................................. 252 Natural Resources ...................................................................................... 252 Cultural Redress ........................................................................................ 252 Cultural Infrastructure ............................................................................. 252 Financial Redress ....................................................................................... 253 INTERIM RELIEF .......................................................................................... 253 Mandate and Settlement Structure .......................................................... 255 3 MAY IT PLEASE THE TRIBUNAL PART I INTRODUCTION Tua te Kahukura, tūtu te Heihei Tua te Kahukura, tūtu te roki Te Kahukura-a-uta, te Kahukura-a-tai Kā pu kā rea kai waho Kai to ariki, kai to mana Kai a huka, huka-nui, huka toa Tipare kaukau e takoto atu e ____e! Hi ____e ____e! Maranga mai ____e ____e, hi ____e ____e! Ka inu aku wai awa na te matapuna o waimarie me rangimarie Ka titiro atu ki aku pae maunga ki Ruahine Ka pukanakana ana ki Whakarara, kia tau ki Heretaunga! Ka tikei aku waewae ki te pou o Omahu ki Kahukuranui, ki Hinemanu tipuna whare Ka whai atu nga tapuwai ki aku pou whenua ki Awarua Te Riu o Puanga Ka tu ki runga o Aorangi, Aorangi te maunga tapu Tu mai te mauri o Pohokura Tu mai te mauri o Takitimu a Tamatea Pokaiwhenua! Mōkai mana Mokai tangata! Whaia ra ki te ko awa o Mangaone ki Hautapu awa Ka tau ki Winiata ki te whare tipuna o Tautahi Te turangawaewae o Ngāti Hinemanu me Ngāti Paki Ka korowhaitia nga parirau manu huia e ngā rangatira o Mokai Patea He iwi motuhake, he uri papatipu Tihei Mauri Ora! 1. These closing submissions are filed for and on behalf of the following claimant groups who have worked together during the hearings process under the auspices of Ngāti Hinemanu me Ngāti Paki: a) Wai 662; a claim brought by Peter Steedman, Jordan Winiata Haines and Herbert Winiata Steedman on behalf of themselves and the descendants of Winiata Te Whaaro and hapū of Ngāti Paki; b) Wai 1835; a claim brought by Lewis Winiata, Ngahapeaparatuae Roy Lomax, Herbert Winiata Steedman, Patricia Anne Te Kiriwai Cross, 4 Christine Teariki on behalf of themselves and the descendants of Ngāti Paki me Ngāti Hinemanu; and c) Wai 1868; a claim brought by Waina Raumaewa Hoet, Grace Hoet, Elizabeth Cox, Piaterihi Beatrice Munroe, Terira Vini, Rangimarie Harris and Fredrick Hoet on behalf of themselves, their whānau and all descendants of Raumaewa Te Rango, Whatu and Pango Raumaewa. (“Claimants”) 2. The Claimants acknowledge that they have whakapapa connections to other hapū in the Taihape region and beyond the boundaries that were established for this Inquiry District. However, they wish to make clear at the outset that notwithstanding the richness of their whakapapa connections to those other hapū, Ngāti Hinemanu me Ngāti Paki stands as a polity in their own right and should not be subsumed by any other iwi or collective seeking a mandate for Treaty settlement negotiations. 3. Ngāti Hinemanu me Ngāti Paki have provided evidence of how the early Crown purchasing and Native Land Court processes undermined and degraded their tipuna, Winiata Te Whaaro, and the authority structures that were in place. Sadly, the same attitudes continue today in the way that the Crown fails to engage in any meaningful way with Ngāti Hinemanu me Ngāti Paki as a separate and autonomous entity, and continues to design and pursue processes of Treaty Settlement which either invisibilise those that assert their separate identity or seek to assimilate those identities within the rubric of others. 4. The Claimants have been left feeling that others including the Crown have been enriched at their expense and the failure to compensate for their loss has caused deep division among Māori and between and among Māori and the Crown. 5. The Claimants wish to draw the Tribunal’s attention to the difficulty for iwi groups of conceptualising their land in terms of blocks and Inquiry districts. It is this process of dividing up the claimants’ land which

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