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  2. Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi - Wikipedia

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    Whakawhanaungatanga The Treaty provides for a partnership between Māori and the Crown, which requires the parties to afford each other reasonable co-operation and utmost good faith, in accordance with their Treaty obligations. 7. Tautiaki Ngangahau The duty of the Crown to ensure the active protection of taonga for as long as Māori so wish it

  3. Treaty of Waitangi - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the 1950s, Māori increasingly sought to use the treaty as a platform for claiming additional rights to sovereignty and to reclaim lost land, and governments in the 1960s and 1970s responded to these arguments, giving the treaty an increasingly central role in the interpretation of land rights and relations between Māori people ...

  4. Tangata whenua - Wikipedia

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    For example, it is part of the formal greeting ceremony of "pōwhiri" when one group visits another. However, under British and subsequent New Zealand law, typically an iwi forms itself into a legally recognised entity, and under the Treaty of Waitangi these entities are accorded special rights and obligations under New Zealand law, when they ...

  5. Māori electorates - Wikipedia

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    First, there are a number of skills that are essential for candidates to have in order to engage with their constituencies and ensure a clear line of accountability to representing the 'Māori voice'. This includes proficiency in te reo Māori, knowledge of tikanga Māori, whakawhanaungatanga skills and confidence on the marae. Second, the ...

  6. Social Security Fairness Act could restore benefits, but ...

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    For example, Michelle Cosgrove's benefits will be cut nearly in half — reduced by $557, to $601. Cosgrove spent the first half of her career as a paralegal, contributing to Social Security ...

  7. Cultural practice - Wikipedia

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    The real question of what qualifies as a legitimate cultural practice is the subject of much legal and ethnic community debate. The question arises in controversial subject areas such as genital mutilation, indigenous hunting [5] and gathering practices, [6] and the question of licensing of traditional medical practitioners.

  8. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  9. Kāwanatanga - Wikipedia

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    The first part of the word, Kāwana, is a transliteration into Māori of the English word governor.The suffix -tanga is very similar in meaning and use to the English suffix -ship, for example rangatiratanga (chieftainship) and kīngitanga (kingship).