Volume 2 Nga Iwi o Hauraki, The Iwi of Hauraki is a rich storehouse of matauranga (knowledge) about the tribal histories and whakapapa within Hauraki. It provides a platform and context to enable the detailed iwi, hapu, and whanau histories and customs to be described by the appropriate representatives in the course of the Waitangi Tribunal hearings.
Volume 3 Archaeology in the Hauraki Region: A Summary provides a comprehensive summary of Maori society in Hauraki before the influx of European settlers, the economy that existed then and the places where that activity occurred. Archaeological sites are shown on maps and the use of natural resources (in particular, minerals) is well documented.
Volume 4 The Crown, The Treaty, and The Hauraki Tribes, 1800–1885 examines the material destruction of the Hauraki resource base—the tribal loss of land and the loss of control over minerals, timber, rivers and foreshore. This destruction is placed in the context of the disparity between the promises and the actions of the Crown, the calculated nature of Government dealings in Hauraki, and the protests of Hauraki Maori faced with the deliberate undermining of tino rangatiratanga.
Volume 5 The Crown, The Treaty, and The Hauraki Tribes, 1800–1885, Supporting Papers contains the essential reference material to substantiate Dr Anderson's work. In addition it contains reference material in relation to a report about the Activities of the Trust Commissioner. The Trust Commissioner report is included as an appendix to The Crown, The Treaty and the Hauraki Tribes 1800–1885.
Volume 6 The Crown, The Treaty, and the Hauraki Tribes, 1880–1980 examines the Crown's systematic dismantling of the original agreements it made with Maori and the laws it contrived to alienate Maori land. The rentless pace of land loss continued during the period 1880-1980. By 1912 only 13% of the Hauraki tribal territory remained Maori land—today that proportion has reduced to 2.6%. The report documents one of the worst cases of Maori landlessness in New Zealand. It describes how Maori interests were sacrificed to make way for the development of natural resources and the infrastructure supporting growing Hauraki settlements. Land was taken for drainage schemes, river improvements, settlement schemes, railways, roads and town development under the Public Works Act. The promise of partnership, with social and economic betterment for Maori, did not materialise.
Volume 7 The Crown, The Treaty, and the Hauraki Tribes, 1880–1980, Supporting Papers contains the reference material to support the main findings as well as further information on the use of the Public Works Act.
Volume 8 The Hauraki Tribal Lands, Parts 1–4 provides detailed analysis of the dealings relating to the original Maori land blocks. This involved over 700 parcels of land and most of the tribal territory. The focus has been on those initial transactions involving the Crown and private individuals so that one can see the pattern of Crown activity that emerges over the past 150 years leading to a situation where at present 2.6% of the
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