Tupuna awa : people and politics of the Waikato River /

'We have always owned the water ... we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone', King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: 'King Tuheitia's claim that Maori have always owned New Zealand's water is just plain wrong'. So who does...

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Main Author: Muru-Lanning, Marama (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The two-headed Taniwha: Waikato River co-governance
  • Belonging to the river
  • Mapping river culture
  • Different understandings of 'owning' the Waikato River
  • Claiming property and tights through Māori descent and group identities
  • Stakeholders, guardians and co-governors: framing the subjects of power
  • Rethinking boundaries: from river ancestor to ancestral river.