A Ngati Hine leader has told the Waitangi Tribunal the Crown has opened old wounds - and enmities - in its drive to settle the Ngapuhi claim.
A Ngati Hine leader has told the Waitangi Tribunal the Crown has opened old wounds - and enmities - in its drive to settle the Ngapuhi claim.
Ngati Hine leader Erima Henare says the descendants of those who were inside the pa have always had a grievance about those on the outside, who fought for the British. Photo: RNZ / Lois Williams
Ngati Hine wants to settle its own grievance with the Crown, and is presenting its evidence to the Tribunal this week, as part of its two-year inquiry into the northern claims.
Erima Henare says the people now trying to represent Ngapuhi in negotiations with the Crown are descendants of chiefs who fought on the Government side in the northern wars.
Mr Henare says the descendants of those who were inside the pa have always had a grievance about those on the outside, who fought for the British.
He says the Crown has revisited that hurt on Ngati Hine by agreeing to deal with the runanga-led body, Tuhoronuku.
