Waitangi Tribunal - District 11 Hawkes Bay [pdf, 4.8 MB]
...'migrant' people. The fusion of these two peoples into the various groups that met with McLean in 1850, is a useful place to start this report. It gives due credit to the breadth of history and traditions held by Hawke's Bay Maori. It provides a human perspective to the bones and artifacts found in archealogical sites.40 And, it introduces two somewhat ambiguous, yet vital terms: mana whenua, and mana tangata. As proceeding chapters will hopefully show, these concepts of Ma...