Ngāi Tahu, or Kai Tahu, is the principal iwi (tribe) of the southern region of New Zealand. The tribal authority, Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu, is based in Christchurch.
External links
Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu website (http://www.ngaitahu.iwi.nz/)
Ngai Tahu see their mahinga kai in a holistic way, but for reasons given earlier, the tribunal had to sever sea fisheries and a number of ancillary claims from this study of the principal land claims.
The claimants alleged that Ngai Tahu had been dispossessed of their mahinga kai, in breach of article 2 of the Treaty and, in the case of the Kemp purchase, contrary to the terms of the Kemp deed.
The Crown argument was founded on the notion that Ngai Tahu, at the time of signing the deeds, could foresee the future and were prepared to relinquish all but their most important mahinga kai in anticipation of other benefits to come from European settlement.
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