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Brigitte Te Awe Awe-Bevan, Ko te Pou Marangatahi o Rangitne ki Manawat

20 January 2013

To Tariana Turia, Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauuru.

I speak as part of Ko Te Pou Marangatahi o Rangitne ki Manawat - Rangitne o

Manawat.

We are Rangitne iwi, the people of Manawat - we reject the Crown continuouslyrecognising and allowing Tnenuiarangi Manawat Incorporated to speak for our iwi.

We reject Tnenuiarangi Manawat Incorporated, who, with the Crowns backing is

attempting to negotiate with the Crown to rewrite Rangitne iwi whakapapa.

Rangitne do not have a hap called Ngti Tauira.

The Crown has allowed Ngti Tauira, to be inserted into Rangitne whakapapa. Ngti Tauira

is a hap of Ngti Apa.

Also, Rangitne iwi have neither been informed or brought together as an iwi, and explained

what the settlement or signing will mean for Rangitne.

We are very concerned with who the people with the mana, the honesty and integrity to act

on behalf of Rangitne people are.

We are concerned for the wellbeing of our future generations, upon which we will build and

strengthen Rangitne for the future.

Rangitne people are also concerned for the loss of Rangitnetanga.

We were not even granted by the Waitangi Tribunal the dignity and integrity of speaking inour own name on our own lands.

The Tribunals denial to give us a hearing has breached one of the most fundamental tikanga

known to indigenous peoples internationally. The right to build and enhance our lands our

people, and to build on our rangatiranga and our Rangitnetanga.

The Waitangi Tribunal is the forum where we should have had our claims heard in an open

and transparent way.

Rangitne people understood that the Waitangi Tribunal is for the Tangata Whenua of

Rangitne to declare Crown breaches against our lands, Rangitne people, and our tupuna.

Instead we have found that the Tribunal operates on tikanga Pkeh and is concerned with

Treasury budgets.

Judge Milroy stated the Waitangi Tribunal doesnt have enough resources, that there are so

many urgent applications by other iwi, so we cant have a hearing, what do budgets have to

do with justice, nothing!

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Therefore the Crown and the Tribunal does not recognise the mana whenua of Rangitne o

Manawat, instead they recognise someone else, so where do we the people of Rangitne go

to for justice?

We like most Mori cant afford expensive High Court cases, just for a judge to say we cant

have a hearing, a fundamental right of all people, surely that includes the Tangata Whenua ofthese lands.

We want to be heard, we have a duty and obligation to demand it, we are after all the mana

whenua of Rangitne, our whakapapa tells you this, neighbouring iwi will tell you this.

Through us, our tupuna speak of it in karanga and whaikrero.

We are the descendants of Rangitne, along with our tupuna we were born and raised here,

we carry their traits, attributes and ways of knowing. That mana does not come from an urban

authority, that the Crown choose to recognise. That mana comes from the people of

Rangitne tuturu.

Ko Te Pou Marangatahi o Rangitne ki Manawat calls on the Minister of Mori Affairs, the

Honorable Pita Sharples to not support the signing of the Rangitne o Manawat settlement

until all the aforesaid issues are resolved.

Brigitte Te Awe Awe-Bevan 20 January 2013