Ko Aotearoa Tēnei. A Report into Claims concerning New Zealand Law and Policy Affecting Māori Culture and Identity WAI262. Tribunal, W. & Direct, L. Wellington, New Zealand, 2011. extra extra
Ko Aotearoa Tēnei. A Report into Claims concerning New Zealand Law and Policy Affecting Māori Culture and Identity WAI262 [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This report concerns one of the most complex and far-reaching claims ever to come before the Waitangi Tribunal. Wai 262, as it is prosaically called, is most often referred to as the indigenous flora and fauna claim, or the Māori cultural intellectual property claim. it is both of those things, but it is also much more. As readers will discover, the Wai 262 claim is really a claim about mātauranga Māori – that is, the unique Māori way of viewing the world, encompassing both traditional knowledge and culture. The claimants, in other words, are seeking to preserve their culture and identity, and the relationships that culture and identity derive from. Their concern is that control has been taken from them, by laws and policies that have allowed, for example, the haka to be used in foreign television advertisements ; tā moko being used to sell high fashion in Paris ; private companies using traditional knowledge about the properties and uses of indigenous plants and animals without acknowledgement or consent ; the dialects of individual iwi to fall into decline through lack of official support or protection ; and iwi and hapū to be denied a say in the management of fauna that they see themselves as guardians of, and denied access to the last surviving remnants of the environment in which their culture evolved. Chapter 5 covers te reo Māori

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