Twisting the Treaty
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JOHN ROBINSON, BRUCE MOON, DAVID ROUND, MIKE BUTLER, HUGH BARR, PETER CRESSWELL
This is probably the most important book published in recent times as it shows how in 27 years the Treaty of Waitangi has been reinterpreted, the “partnership” myth created, tribal corporations set up, public assets transferred to those corporations which are now on the brink of securing a special place in a new, treaty based, written constitution.
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Size: A5
Type: Paperback
Pages: 414 + 16 photo pages
This is probably the most important book published in recent times as it shows how in 27 years the Treaty of Waitangi has been reinterpreted, the “partnership” myth created, tribal corporations set up, public assets transferred to those corporations which are now on the brink of securing a special place in a new, treaty based, written constitution.
The treaty was Britain’s reluctant response to pleas by Maori chiefs to rescue the tribes from a culture of cannibalism, slavery and inter-tribal warfare that had wiped out about a third of their race by 1840.
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