Promises and Performances

DIGITAL LIBRARY

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Waitangi Workshop resources

Table of contents

What Maori promised and were promised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi which they were offered and signed — What Maori were automatically entitled to anyway if new Zealand became a colony, under the conventions of International and colonial law, and British common law — What Maori might reasonably have expected to happen — What Maori actually got — Which Treaty is the real one? — Is the Treaty legal? — What happens when the two texts are interpreted differently? — English Version — Te Tiriti o Waitangi — Te Tiriti o Waitangi  a literal English translation of the Maori text — He whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tirene.