MLC 150 years of the Maori Land Court
In her book The Treaty of Waitangi (1987), Claudia Orange argued that the Native Lands Act 1865 ‘effectively severed the threads of Crown protection and nullified the treaty’s second article’ (p 179). David Williams’ book Te Kooti HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE COURT 1862–1890s Tango Whenua: The Native Land Court 1864-1909 (1999) was a generally critical study of the Court, arguing that it was so closely interconnected with government policy that it essentially should not be...
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