Magna Carta and New Zealand by Stephen Winter & Chris Jones

Author:Stephen Winter & Chris Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

For Taiaroa, “Kingi” is interchangeable with “chief” and “rangatira.” Taiaroa did not mean to say that everyone was a chief or king simply because in his world, he was the chief of his tribe and was therefore responsible for his kin. Taiaroa was simply stating that all the chiefs assembled held authority in their own regions. But equally interesting is that Taiaroa also saw an equidistant relationship between the king of the Waikato tribes and Queen Victoria. Like Taiaroa, his kinsman, Pita Te Hori, made Ngāi Tahu’s authority (mana) clear when he wrote to his people explaining why his people had jailed a North Island Māori for what they called “sedition” against the Queen.To the people who live in this island, listen here. Those of you from one point of this land, to the other point, to those that dwell in between, to all white people, to those who live in Te Waipounamu, and all who inhabit the Island where the fires of Mahuika burns. To the Māori, you must all listen.

Raukawa is the boundary. Let not the people of the Northern Island, come across to this island and treat the law with contempt; neither the people of this island lay down and allow it. There is a large dividing space between them and us, like unto that between Jacob and Laban, which leaves this to continue as a perpetual testament for us. That island has been divided for your King. There is another King of this island, he is Tuahuriri. Although he is dead his authority remains with us his descendants. We have great mountains on this island, Tapuae-o-Uenuku, Kai-taurau, Maunga-tere, Ahu-patiki, Tarahoua, Mihi-waka and Rakiura. (Te Hori 1863)

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