Waitangi Tribunal - The Volcanic Plateau [pdf, 3.8 MB]
...these involve multiple issues or a number of ancillary claims. For example, the claim lodged by N gati Manawa as part of the Ikawhenua iwi, is to the rivers, lakes, geothennal and mineral resources, forests, and land that they say were wrongly taken through actions of the Crown. This report provides a compendium of land alienation over the period starting with fIrst contact between Maori of the district and Pakeha (in the 1830s) to about 1940. In addition, the alienation of several parti...