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Mana whenua

 Subject
Subject Source: Reo
Scope Note: Customary law relating to the iwi/tribe's connection, ownership rights and role of stewardship to a particular area of land. Used by council bodies to identify the tangata whenua/indigenous people of that particular area.

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Aterea Harehare assessor minute book.

 Collection
Identifier: Matauranga-Maori MSS-93/5
Scope and Contents

Transcription of land court hearing re Te Whaiti block

Dates: 1893 - 1907

Bill Pearson papers relating to Maori issues.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-89/38
Scope and Contents

4 subjects: Education of Maori children; New Zealand Maori Council, National Conference on recommended changes in Maori land legislation; data papers and conference agenda, Maori Students Federation, Hamilton, 1966; 3 papers relating to the Committee of Inquiry into laws affecting Maori land and powers of the Maori Land Court, 1965 (the Prichard-Waetford Report) including one by Hugh Kawharu.

Dates: ca.1965-1966

Church Missionary Society further records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-Vault 139
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Prebendary Cash of Church Missionary Society and Lord Bledisloe re exoneration of Henry Williams' role in land purchases in New Zealand. Includes resolution of the CMS absolving Henry Williams of any wrongdoing. Associated materials: Church Missionary Society. Records 1799- 1884.University of Auckland Library. Microfilm 79- 286/356.

Dates: 1939

Deed of conveyance of Puke Atua block, Kaipara, from Paora Tuhaere to Edmund Thomas Dufaur, 10 February 1880.

 Collection — Outsize 1
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2009/02
Scope and Contents

Includes plan of Puke Atua block, near Helensville, North Auckland (1,754 acres), and Maori translation by Richard De Thierry. Endorsed by Thomas M. Haultain, commissioner for Auckland Province under the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1870. Manuscript on parchment. Faded.

Dates: 1880

Dieter Meyer collection on Maori land issues.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 87/2
Scope and Contents

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews on Te Matakite o Aotearoa and the Land March, and related papers, recorded and collected by Dieter Meyer between April and August 1978.

Dates: 1978

Hilda Phillips papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-237
Scope and Contents

The collection includes submissions to the 1979 Royal Commission on the Maori Land Courts; as well as periodical articles by Mrs Phillips on the subjects of apartheid, Maori and land.

Dates: 1976-1981

James Rutherford papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-42
Scope and Contents Lecture notes; typescripts of books and articles; research notes; transcripts of early family and personal papers; inventories and transcripts of Colonial Office despatches. The more important papers are: (a) Auckland Provincial Centennial Council. Historical Research Committee. Records, 1936-1939. 30 cms. A collection of minutes, correspondence and working papers, collected by Rutherford who was a member. (b) Clendon, James Reddy, 1801-72. Papers, 1840-72. 30 items. Includes Clendon's...
Dates: 1926 - 1963

Maori land Court minute books.

 Collection
Identifier: Microfilm-201/287-1300/1467
Scope and Contents

Minutes of evidence and judgments given at sittings of the Court throughout New Zealand. Includes many whakapapa.

Dates: 1865 - 1900

Maori Land Court minute books.

 Collection
Identifier: Microfilm-78-263
Scope and Contents

Minute books of Maori Land Court proceedings at Maketu, 1867-1871 and 1871-1878

Dates: 1867 - 1878