By examining the debates over water in one New Zealand river, over a single recent period, Muru-Lanning provides a powerful lens through which to view modern iwi politics, debates over water ownership, and contests for power between Māori and the state. Join Facebook to connect with Awa Awa and others you may know. Marama Muru-Lanning explains how Māori of the region, the Crown and Mighty River Power have talked about the ownership, guardianship and stakeholders of the river. It is also subject to governing oversight by the Crown and intersected by hydro-stations managed by state-owned power companies: a situation rife with complexity and subject to shifting and subtle power dynamics. So who does own the water in New Zealand – if anyone – and why does it matter? Offering some human context around that fraught question, Tupuna Awa looks at the people and politics of the Waikato River.įor iwi and hapū of the lands that border its 425-kilometre length, the Waikato River is an ancestor, a taonga and a source of mauri, lying at the heart of identity and chiefly power. They live in mountainous rainforest regions of the. The Awa - as they call themselves - literally means 'people'. Prime Minister John Key disagreed: ‘King Tuheitia’s claim that Māori have always owned New Zealand’s water is just plain wrong’. The Awa tribal peoples of Colombia and Ecuador were first revealed to the wider world by the Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, who named them 'Kwaiker', derived from the name of the river by which they were first discovered. Due to the flow of Africa GreenTec she is able to sell also in the evenings and especially to attract the young people with the music of her shop. we have never ceded our mana over the river to anyone’, King Tuheitia Paki asserted in 2012.
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