Riro whenua atu : the 1960s confiscation of Waikato land at Pōkaewhenua / Dione Payne.

By:

Payne, Dione [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780473369057
0473369052

Other title:

1960s confiscation of Waikato land at Pōkaewhenua
Nineteen sixties confiscation of Waikato land at Pōkaewhenua

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

346.93043 23

Contents:

Te ngira o Pōtatau - Introduction -- Mai Rangiriri - Colonisation -- Ngā tari raupatu - Agents of Alienation -- Ki Pōkaewhenua - Lot 512 -- Mā te mohio, ka aha? -- Mā te mohio, ka aha - Conclusion.

Summary: "In Waikato, confiscation endured into the 1960s through facilitated alienations of allegedly unproductive Māori land under the Maori Affairs Act of 1953. The book explains how government agencies utilised a range of measures to evict Māori owners from their land then sold or leased their land in the national interest. At Pōkaewhenua, near Okarea in Waikato, a Māori Land Court Judge deemed whānau land as wasteland and labelled it unproductive. Subsequently the land was then forcibly sold, its owners evicted and their cultivations and farms destroyed. Dione's analysis of Pōkaewhenua opens the doorway for other hapū and iwi to examine their recent historical records that record "sales" of their Māori land. Not all land was confiscated through the Public Works Act and as this book demonstrates many people did not actually sell, it was done on their behalf."--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	346.93043 PAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A539869B

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"In Waikato, confiscation endured into the 1960s through facilitated alienations of allegedly unproductive Māori land under the Maori Affairs Act of 1953. The book explains how government agencies utilised a range of measures to evict Māori owners from their land then sold or leased their land in the national interest. At Pōkaewhenua, near Okarea in Waikato, a Māori Land Court Judge deemed whānau land as wasteland and labelled it unproductive. Subsequently the land was then forcibly sold, its owners evicted and their cultivations and farms destroyed. Dione's analysis of Pōkaewhenua opens the doorway for other hapū and iwi to examine their recent historical records that record "sales" of their Māori land. Not all land was confiscated through the Public Works Act and as this book demonstrates many people did not actually sell, it was done on their behalf."--Back cover.

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