matiaha tiramorehu

Personal details

Full Name:

  • Matiaha Tiramōrehu

Lifetime:

  • ?7 Apr 1881
Biography

 Matiaha Tiramōrehu made the first formal statement of Ngāi Tahu grievances about land purchases in 1849.

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Articles

The Treaty in practice

  • The Treaty in practice

    Amalgamating Māori into colonial settler society was a key part of British policy in New Zealand after 1840. Economic and social change, along with land-purchase programmes, were central to this process.

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  • Page 7 - The Ngāi Tahu claimNgāi Tahu signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown in 1998. This completed almost 150 years of the tribe's struggle to have the Crown honour its obligations under the Treaty of