Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 1 [pdf, 827 KB]
...www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz Introduc tion 3 a reader concerned with only the claims themselves can skip ‘housekeeping’ and go straight to chapter 2. 1.3 The Claimants The many claimants in this inquiry are Māori men and women who devoted time, energy and resources over many years to an important cause : pursuing justice on behalf of their tūpuna, and the uri (descendants) of those tūpuna who are alive today. The claims were variously brought on behalf of whānau, individu...