Waitangi Tribunal Vol 2 Tauranga Moana [pdf, 9.2 MB]
...the whole of the people . . . the whole of the Maori people.47 as we have seen, Māori regarded the world as primarily the domain of atua, who control- led and constrained how people could use the environment. These powers were the source of all human authority. however, as hori Ngatai’s speech makes clear, people who possessed rangatiratanga over a resource had full authority to exclude other people from using it. as Ngatai explained, over and above their general status as users and ka...