Tupuna Awa

Waikato-Tainui’s Raupatu claim for its lost lands was lodged initially in 1987, and settled with the Crown in 1995. The Waikato River itself, however, was excluded from that settlement, and negotiation with the Crown then lasted another 15 years. Marama Muru-Lanning’s book explores that negotiation. – Geoff Chapple, NZ Listener

[Muru-Lanning’s] book on the Waikato River should give readers an insight into what Maori are asking for when they make claims to waterways. – Waatea News

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning, an anthropologist with both personal and academic expertise in the subject, is ideally suited to produce this learned and readable account of competing discourses to do with this important waterway. – Flaxroots

Waikato-Tainui’s Raupatu claim for its lost lands was lodged initially in 1987, and settled with the Crown in 1995. The Waikato River itself, however, was excluded from that settlement, and negotiation with the Crown then lasted another 15 years. Marama Muru-Lanning’s book explores that negotiation. – Geoff Chapple, NZ Listener

[Muru-Lanning’s] book on the Waikato River should give readers an insight into what Maori are asking for when they make claims to waterways. – Waatea News

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning, an anthropologist with both personal and academic expertise in the subject, is ideally suited to produce this learned and readable account of competing discourses to do with this important waterway. – Flaxroots

Waikato-Tainui’s Raupatu claim for its lost lands was lodged initially in 1987, and settled with the Crown in 1995. The Waikato River itself, however, was excluded from that settlement, and negotiation with the Crown then lasted another 15 years. Marama Muru-Lanning’s book explores that negotiation. – Geoff Chapple, NZ Listener

[Muru-Lanning’s] book on the Waikato River should give readers an insight into what Maori are asking for when they make claims to waterways. – Waatea News

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning, an anthropologist with both personal and academic expertise in the subject, is ideally suited to produce this learned and readable account of competing discourses to do with this important waterway. – Flaxroots

An examination of how changing discourse around the Waikato River affects the relationships between the Crown, commercial operators like Mighty River Power, and the people of the region for whom it is a ‘Tupuna Awa’, a river ancestor.

• | Author: Muru Lanning Marama
• | Publisher: Auckland University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781869408503
• | ISBN-10: 1869408500