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2021 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
22. Farming and Māori, New Zealand’s Indigenous People
verfasst von : David Hall
Erschienen in: Agricultural Economics and Food Policy in New Zealand
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Abstract
The chapter reviews relationships between New Zealand’s indigenous people, Māori, and farming. Before European colonisation, New Zealand was occupied by Māori with land used communally rather than owned individually. In 1840, ‘sovereignty’ passed to the UK through the Treaty of Waitangi with unclear consequences for Māori. A new court, the Native Land Court, impacted disastrously on Māori agriculture. In the 1920s, Government funded consolidating Māori land into economic farms. But only a small minority of Māori was supported. Later in the twentieth century Māori became increasingly urbanised and remained disadvantaged. The Waitangi Tribunal assessed Māori claims of Treaty breaches since 1840. Federated Farmers opposed the Waitangi Tribunal recommendation that privately owned farming land be returned to Māori. Eventually, Government purchased the farms at market value.