The Ngai Tahu settlement, like all other Treaty of Waitangi
settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand, was more a product of
political compromise and expediency than measured justice. The Ngai
Tahu claim, Te Kereme, spanned two centuries, from the first letter
of protest to the Crown in 1849 to the final hearing by the
Waitangi Tribunal between 1987 and 1989, and then the settlement in
1998. Generation after generation carried on the fight with hard
work and persistence and yet, for nearly all Ngai Tahu, the result
could not be called fair. The intense negotiations between the two
parties, Ngai Tahu and the Crown, were led by a pair of
intelligent, hard-nosed rangatira, who had a constructive but often
acrimonious relationship - Tipene O'Regan and the Minister of
Treaty Negotiations Doug Graham - but things were never that
simple. The Ngai Tahu team had to answer to the communities back
home and iwi members around the country. Most were strongly
supportive, but others attacked them at hui, on the marae and in
the media, courts and Parliament. Graham and his officials, too,
had to answer to their political masters. And the general public -
interested Pakeha, conservationists, farmers and others - had their
own opinions. In this measured, comprehensive and readable account,
Martin Fisher shows how, amid such strong internal and external
pressures, the two sides somehow managed to negotiate one of the
country's longest legal documents. 'A Long Time Coming' tells the
extraordinary, complex and compelling story of Ngai Tahu's treaty
settlement negotiations with the Crown. But it also shines a light,
for both Maori and Pakeha, on a crucial part of this country's
history that has not, until now, been widely enough known.
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