Waitangi Tribunal - Te Urewera [pdf, 3.8 MB]
...years. The major theme of chapter 5 is how Tuhoe deåned their political position in relation to the activities of the Native Land Court in the years following raupatu. Tuhoe formed a tribal council known as Te Whitu Tekau, or the Seventy, in order to protect the tribal estate, the boundaries of which had been explicitly deåned in correspondence to the Government. Te Whitu Tekau assumed the responsibility of preventing application for survey of land, or investigation of title, or any other ac...