Foreman v Sanders – Estate of Rachel Ngeungeu Zister (2013) 63 Waikato Maniapoto MB 286 (63 WMN 286) [pdf, 191 KB]
...Manuka Henare’s article is reasonably wide-ranging, nowhere does he ascribe the definition people for the word whenua. The closest he comes to it is when he indicates that philosophically people do not see themselves as separate from nature, humanity and the natural world being descendants of the earth mother, thus the resources of the earth do not belong to humankind but rather humans belong to the earth. [47] Ms Sanders also attaches an extract from a well known Māori academic...