Manu Korihi News for 25 October 2012

Monitoring of Maori achievement shows tangata whenua have failed to make key social, economic and cultural gains over the past decade; Kohanga supporters have told their governing body they want an apology from the Crown for the way it's treated Maori pre-schools; A project looking at Maori understandings of Maori art has been awarded more than six-hundred-thousand-dollars of research funding; The Chilean envoy to New Zealand says a waka expedition to Easter Island will also open the way for Maori to foster links with indigenous communities in South America.