Nga Kuri-a-Wharei. Included in those margins are the inner gulf islands of Tikapa Moana and those (except for Tuhua island) offshore of the eastern coastline of Te Tai Tamawahine.2
He is careful to point out that these boundaries are not to be reduced to straight lines. There is in the outer areas an intermingling of related tribes and sub-tribes. Within Hauraki the weaving of the net takes on special meaning as iwi (tribes) and hapu (sub-tribes) have firmly established settlements within each other's territories without the loss of their individual identity. The custom is that intermarriage requires affiliation with the tribe resident on the ancestral land.3
The key interrelationships of this geography and the symbolic orientation of Hauraki with Mt Te Aroha at the prow and Mt Moehau at the stern of the waka are portrayed in the 3D map of the region.
Research and Evidence
The Hauraki Treaty Claims project has examined the nature and extent of the interaction of Maori with the Crown in the Hauraki tribal territory during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The four claims mentioned above, together with the research and supporting evidence, are set out in ii volumes.
The history of colonisation in Hauraki—the deliberate policies of the Crown leading to the social and economic deprivation endured by those who have gone before us and their years of responsible protest—has not been told before. These volumes, the foundation of the Hauraki case, will forever rewrite our nation's history books, contributing, only now, a Maori perspective to the history of this region.
It is expected that this research and supporting evidence will be of use to other Hauraki claimants. To a considerable extent many of the other claims currently registered with the Waitangi Tribunal provide particular examples that reinforce the breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi detailed here.
The information in these II volumes also serves other purposes:
as a historical resource base for tangata whenua;
for study and teaching;
to encourage greater public understanding of the Maori perspective.
The Themes
Each of the II volumes of The Hauraki Treaty Claims deals with a particular theme.
Volume I The Claims sets out the revised statement of claim together with introductory remarks, a copy of the original claims and specific acknowledgment of all those who have assisted the research to date.
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