A Separate Authority (He Mana  Motuhake), Volume I : Establishing the Tuhoe Maori Sanctuary in New Zealand, 1894-1915, Hardback Book

A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume I : Establishing the Tuhoe Maori Sanctuary in New Zealand, 1894-1915 Hardback

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This book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tuhoe leaders.

However, by 1913 Tuhoe home-rule over this vast domain was being subverted by the Crown, which by 1926 had obtained three-quarters of their reserve.

By the 1950s this vast area had become the rugged Urewera National Park, isolating over 200 small blocks retained by stubborn Tuhoe "non-sellers".

After a century of resistance, in 2014 the Tuhoe finally regained statutory control over their ancestral domain and a detailed apology from the Crown.

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