Tamati kruger biography books

In addition, site visits were made to marae including to Ruatāhuna where those lucky to take that bus trip saw a new development, Te Tii which is to be a regenerative hub for the isolated community, with such facilities as a laundry, service station, offices and chalets.

As with Te Kura Whare, this building is beautifully designed, in the case of Te Tii by Hugh Tennant, of Tennant Brown architects, and sits modestly into its forest backdrop.

The Tūhoe treaty claim also achieved a different outcome.

Tāmati Kruger and Kirsti Luke — AMINZ Conference

While it contained an historical account and Crown acknowledgement of injustices, it also provides for protection of Te Urewera, which had been a National Park. This is protected not as land owned by Tūhoe, but not owned at all, thus recognising Indigenous philosophy that the land is an entity. It is part of us and not subservient.

The Tūhoe Claims Settlement Act 2014 contains a summary of an historical account which makes Ngāi Tūhoe do things differently: Interview with Tāmati Kruger, carousel RIQ