NZ MADE/NĀ NIU TĪRENI: Te Uri o Hau
The confronting truth of what happened in our recent past is something New Zealanders have to reckon with. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, Māori owned more than 66 million acres of land. By 1975, almost 97 per cent had been sold or taken.
Te Uri o Hau is a hapū from the northern Kaipara region. In 1842, it gave up about 3000 hectares as punishment for Māori action against a storekeeper who had desecrated an urupā (burial ground). No payment was ever made for the land.
Find out more about what happened to Te Uri o Hau, where you live, and how much the land was settled for - it may surprise.
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