Most of us have probably forgotten the action taken against the Tuhoe people four years ago - dawn raids on so-called terrorists. This week it's been revealed that defendants in the case won't be allowed trial by a jury of their fellow citizens. They will face a lone judge. 10/01/11
Article from NZ Herald
Urewera raids: Lone judge to decide cases -
Controversial firearms charges should be tried by jury, say human rights activists. Expand Raunatiri Hunt is one of three defendants to be trialled separately. Photo / Alan GibsonMost of the 18 people charged after the Urewera "terror" raids have been denied a jury trial. Fifteen of the group, who are facing firearms charges stemming from police raids in 2007, will be tried before a judge alone when their case goes ahead in August.
Article from NZ Herald
Tuhoe assured UN visitor on apartheid - Kruger A Tuhoe delegation that met United Nations special rapporteur James Anaya last week says it assured him the iwi would not practise apartheid, should it regain ownership of Te Urewera National Park.
Article from NZ Herald
Iwi won't practise apartheid, UN told NZPA
A Tuhoe delegation that met United Nations special rapporteur James Anaya last week says it assured him the iwi would not practise apartheid, should it regain ownership of Te Urewera National Park.
Article from stuff.co.nz
Outgoing top cop may apologise for Urewera raids
Resigning Police Commissioner Howard Broad says Tuhoe could get a formal apology for the so-called terror raids that happened under his command. He also had a surprise prediction about his successor - it could be a civilian instead of a career police officer.
01 July 2010 Article from 3news.co.nz
David Williams: Be bold and talk about benefits of settlements.
The Waitangi Tribunal was established 35 years ago, but this year is the first time that the tribunal has ever met at Waitangi.
It is now hearing Ngapuhi evidence that despite the guarantees to their ancestors, Crown policies and laws unfairly and in breach of the Treaty and the declaration dispossessed Ngapuhi hapu of their ancestral lands.
17 June 2010 Article from The NZ Herald
Many people have been impressed with the low-key persona of our Prime Minister. That and the ability to communicate with the minor parties and find some common ground seemed to bode well for the political future of our country.
05 June 2010 Article from The Gisborne Herald
Editorial: Tuhoe negotiations must get back on track.
OPINION: The starting point in any negotiation between Tuhoe and the Government is an acknowledgment that Tuhoe have been treated unjustly by the Crown as long as there has been a relationship between the two.
29 May 2010 Article from Dominion Post
Give us back the park or we quit talks say Tuhoe.
Tuhoe's Treaty negotiations with the Government are on a knife edge after the iwi's leader said the talks could be scrapped unless ownership of Te Urewera National Park is put back on the table.
29 May 2010 Article from Dominion Post
Heart of the Tuhoe Nation.
For the people who live among the rugged bush-clad hills of Te Urewera, it is not just somewhere to live, but a place that defines them. Tuhoe residents talk about their love of the land, and how they are prepared to wait for as long as it takes to have it returned to them.
29 May 2010 Article from Waikato Times
Key’s deceit sees Tuhoe walk away.
Tuhoe are about to walk away from the Treaty talks. More power to them. Key has screwed them over. They’ve been waiting generations. They can afford to wait a little longer until we have a decent PM. Or they can go to the UN, see what that DRIP really means.
28 May 2010 Article from The Standard
Feeling the bite of a cannibal joke
The Maori did not take kindly to Key’s attempt at humour. In tense situations, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is known for remaining curiously upbeat. As an executive at Merrill Lynch in the mid-’90s, the cheerfulness with which he axed hundreds of employees inspired his co-workers to call him “the smiling assassin.”
27 May 2010 Article from MACLEANS.CA
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia is predicting more tensions between Maori and the Crown over Treaty settlements.
The Government has asked Tuhoe for a new meeting in three weeks to offer new options for settling its claims, after Prime Minister John Key ruled out any change of ownership of Te Urewera National park. 25 May 2010
Article from Radio NZ
Key's Tuhoe gaffe far from common.
I struggled last week to to form an opinion about John Key's gaff with Tuhoe, where he joked that he could have ended up on the menu had he been dining with them and not Ngati Porou. Like many others, I could see the wit in the quip, but, as Te Ururoa Flavell, so rightly points out, it was Key's timing that let him down.
20 May 2010 Article from 3news.co.nz
Return of national park to Tuhoe 'could set precedent' -
Key At least three other iwi could have used the return of Te Urewera National Park to Tuhoe to further their own claims for similar land, Prime Minister John Key says.
18 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
Tuhoe rejected numerous alternatives to ownership of the Urewera National Park during settlement negotiations and in the end the Crown was left with no other options on the table, Prime Minister John Key says.
17 May 2010 Article from tvnz.co.nz
Commemorative pens were ready for Tuhoe leaders and Government ministers to sign an agreement in principle before the prime minister dropped a bombshell on the deal last week. Tuhoe chief negotiator Tamati Kruger said somewhere between 20 and 50 of the pens were made by the Crown to mark what was expected to be a celebration last Friday.
17 May 2010 Article from The Dominion Post
Crown's tactics cost Tuhoe their Urewera heartland.
When the iwi say the national park already belongs to them, history is on their side, writes Maori Affairs reporter Yvonne Tahana.
15 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Maori Party says talks in disrepute.
Tuhoe says relations with the prime minister are getting worse by the day after John Key made a clumsy cannibalism joke against the tribe. And the Maori Party is accusing Mr Key of throwing "the whole Treaty settlement process into disrepute". Maori Party chief whip Te Ururoa Flavell criticised Mr Key yesterday after he was forced to apologise over his joke.
14 May 2010 Article from The Dominion Post
Tuhoe says it is willing to continue negotiating a settlement deal with the Crown but doubts any credible options can now be presented. The Government has rejected the iwi's bid for wants sole ownership of the Urewera National Park, and a joke made by the Prime Minister about being eaten by Tuhoe has strained the relationship further.
14 May 2010 Article from Radio New Zealand
PM's joke inflames dispute with Tuhoe Iwi claims Urewera ownership agreed before Key intervened at last minute A comment by Prime Minister John Key that Tuhoe would have him for dinner has been labelled badly timed and insensitive by a Maori Party MP.
14 May 2010
Article from NZ Herald
Tariana Turia: Te Urewera and Tuhoe are inseparable.
Tariana Turia writes on the deep connection Tuhoe have with their ancestral land.
14 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
New Zealand's prime minister apologises for cannibalism joke.
John Key offends Maori tribe by saying they might 'have him for dinner' after dispute over land.
13 May 2010 Article from guardian.co.uk
PM slammed for cannibalism comment.
A comment Prime Minister John Key repeated today about Tuhoe having him for dinner may have been a typically flippant one, but it has been labelled insensitive and badly timed. At a tourism event in Auckland Mr Key joked about enjoying a dinner at a Ngati Porou marae on the East Coast of the North Island this week.
13 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Key offends Tuhoe with cannibal comments.
John Key's comedy routine came a cropper today when he ventured into Treaty settlement territory. “The good news is I was having dinner with Ngati Porou as opposed to their neighbouring iwi which is Tuhoe in which case I would have been dinner,” Mr Key said on RadioLIVE today.
13 May 2010 Article from 3news.co.nz
Key apologises over Tuhoe menu joke. LATEST: Prime Minister John Key has apologised over a joke which has been interpreted by some as linking Tuhoe with cannibalism. Mr Key this morning sparked a frenzy of outrage when he opened a speech joking that if he had a meal with Tuhoe he would have been on the menu - taken by some to be a suggestion members of the iwi were cannibals.
13 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
Key: 'I'd be on the menu' with Tuhoe.
Prime Minister John Key has further soured relations with Tuhoe by joking this morning that if he had a meal with them he would have been on the menu - taken by some to be a suggestion they were cannibals. Speaking at the launch of the Government's Budget tourism package, Mr Key said he had earlier this week had dinner with Ngati Porou representatives.
13 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
PM cannibal controversy
With tensions still high between central North Island iwi Tuhoe and the Government, Prime Minister John Key seems to be stirring up the bees nest. At a New Zealand Hotel Industry conference in Auckland, the Prime Minister jokingly referred to the iwi as cannibals.
13 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Tuhoe hold emergency talks over Key 'betrayal'
Tuhoe are holding emergency hui around the country to discuss Prime Minister John Key's announcement this week that iwi ownership of the Urewera National Park is off the negotiating table.
13 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
The Maori Party is signalling it will stay in Government, despite relations with Prime Minister John Key nosediving after he personally blocked a deal to give Te Urewera National Park to Tuhoe.
12 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
Maori Party furious over Govt's Tuhoe decision.
The Maori Party is furious with the Government for ruling out handing over Urewera National Park to Tuhoe and has accused it of acting dishonourably.
11 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
Editorial: Tuhoe claim a minefield for National.
At the best of times, reaching a comprehensive settlement over Waitangi claims is a delicate and tricky matter. But for a number of reasons the Tuhoe negotiations are proving especially difficult, and not just because some people in the National Government are becoming increasingly worried that their party is earning a reputation among voters for conceding too much to the Maori Party.
11 May 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Prime Minister John Key personally pulled the plug on a Tuhoe bid to win ownership of Te Urewera National Park before the Cabinet had a chance to decide, the iwi's leader says.
11 May 2010 Article from The Dominion Post
Tuhoe negotiators told Urewera off the table.
The Maori Party is outraged that the Government isn't going to hand over Urewera National Park to Tuhoe. Prime Minister John Key today broke with convention by announcing the government's position part way through negotiations, apparently to head-off the idea gaining traction at a hui this weekend bringing together Tuhoe.
10 May 2010 Article from stuff.co.nz
Tuhoe apology opens old wounds.
Tuhoe leaders say a Crown apology for 19th century injustices would be meaningless unless tribes who fought with colonial forces also say sorry.
03 May 2010 Article from New Zealand Herald
Tuhoe's chief negotiator says the Crown has no case for hanging on to Te Urewera National Park.
Tamati Kruger says return of the 2000 square kilometre park is a bottom line for the eastern Bay of Plenty iwi, but it's prepared to maintain and improve public access.
27 April 2010 Article from Waatea News
Tamati Kruger discusses the return of Te Urewera to Tuhoe.
27 April 2010 Posted by karere under Maori News
Tuhoe talk to Goff over action on raids
Tuhoe have met Labour Party leader Phil Goff to brief him about the tribe's settlement negotiations and also to discuss the impact of the police "Operation 8" raids in Ruatoki, south of Whakatane, in 2007.
27 April 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Tūhoe have asked that they, not the Department of Conservation (DoC), manage Te Urewera National Park if the Crown passes ownership of the 212,672ha region to the tribe under a Treaty settlement.
View NZ Herald cartoon of Tamati here. 22 April 2010 Article from NZ Herald
Tuhoe and the Ureweras - the real deal.
There is no doubt Tuhoe suffered at the hands of the Crown, who unleashed a "scorched earth campaign" against them in the 1800s; their homes were destroyed, their people jailed and killed. They were run off their land and have spent the time since trying to get it back.
22 April 2010 Article from 3news.co.nz
Tuhoe have received support from an unlikely ally in their bid to win ownership of the Urewera National Park. The hunting and fishing lobby says its members have confidence Tuhoe will continue to allow public access, and Tuhoe's lead negotiator has spoken to 3 News about his tribe's plans for the park
.22 April 2010Article from 3news.co.nz
Tuhoe deal - first step to self-rule?
The Government is on the verge of offering the Tuhoe tribe a treaty settlement that could be as groundbreaking as it is controversial. Tuhoe is hoping it will mean total control of the Urewera National Park, and start the tribe on the way to self-rule and becoming a separate nation. But the Government is sensitive about just how far it will go.
19 April 2010 Article from 3news.co.nz
Warriors of the Mist Kickboxing Tournament held in Rūātoki on 10 April 2010 features on Te Kaea. Also featuring Leah Te Weehi of Tūhoe and Ngāti Porou descent, been honored for marks achieved at Auckland University.
12 April 2010 Video footage from Te Kaea, Maori Television
Kickboxing Tournament to Unite Ruatoki Community
WHEN fighters come from near and far to compete in Ruatoki this weekend, they do so as a direct result of the so-called terror raids two and a half years ago.
The Ruatoki community has rallied behind kickboxing instructor Tikirau Ata, who started a local branch of a Maori martial arts club following the terror raids.
09 April 2010< Article from the Whakatane Beacon
The Tuhoe Establishment Trust will distribute $5 million in interest payments on its share of the Central North Island forestry settlement to its marae and hapu. Chairperson Tamati Kruger says the trust is still working on a distribution formula, as some of the 50 marae and hapu overlap with other tribal areas.
07 April 2010 Article from the Te Karere Ipurangi
The Government's foreshore and seabed solution has already hit troubled waters, with some of Maoridom's most powerful leaders warning it does not go far enough.
01 April 2010 Article from the Dominion Post
No ownership and Maori being granted customary title form the basis of the Government's preferred option to repeal the divisive 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act.
31 March 2010
Article from the NZ Herald
Tūhoe will distribute $5million ot its marae and hapu this year from the fruits of its first Treaty of Waitangi settlement. A further $1 million will go to four tribal committees to support their work.
30 March 2010 Article from the Whakatane Beacon<
NZ human rights record under UN microscope.
The point of the exercises was "literally an international testing ground on how well we have complied with different international instruments and covenants that we have signed up to over a period of time".
12 March 2010 Article from the NZ Herald
Kapa haka from the Mataatua rohe battled it out for supremacy at the regional competition held in Torere over the weekend. Fifteen groups from the Eastern and Western Bay took to the stage at the 2010 Mataatua Regional Kapa Haka Festival on Saturday, performing explosive sets of haka and waiata before a 7000-strong crowd.
24 February 2010 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
Matts old place becomes Tūhoe Establishment Trusts new Headquarters
29 December 2009 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
Urewera 18” to stand trial – four years after their arrest
29 December 2009 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
Untold Tūhoe history revealed
02 December 2009 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
All will be revealed
01 December 2009 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
Tūhoe opposes splitting forest between Iwi
20 November 2009 Article from the Whakatane Beacon
$20,000 fundraiser has tears flowing
Article from the Whakatane Beacon