02/12/2024
This Kai is usually symbolic of Easter , they also represent birth and the one absolute thing all people in Aotearoa agree on we love our tamariki.
These cartons contain 90 eggs each we would like in honour of the historical sadness and for non Maori New Zealanders a day of embarrassment and egg on the face of the New Zealand government at the time.
The first 3 Marae members who nominate a Kura in Ngāti Tūwharetoa land get 1 as a small token apologies from us.
The New Zealand Settlements Act of 1863 allowed the Crown to confiscate land from Māori tribes that were considered to be in rebellion against the Queen. The act resulted in the loss of 1.3 million hectares of Māori land, including most of the lower Waikato, Taranaki, and the Bay of Plenty.
The act's key features included:
Confiscation: The Crown could confiscate land from Māori tribes that were deemed to have been in rebellion against the Queen, or that had assisted in the rebellion.
Compensation Court: The act established a Compensation Court to return land to those affected by the confiscations. However, the settlements that were created typically represented only about one or two percent of the unimproved value of the lands that were taken.
No right of appeal: There was no right of appeal under the act.
The act was part of a British policy to assimilate Māori into colonial settler society after 1840. The consequences of the act are still felt today.
