Hoki mai ki te ao mārama nei. E hia rau tāngata ka tū whakahē ki ngā mahi a te karauna kia whakatū he waahi whare ki takaparawha i ngā tau wha tekau ki muri. Ā he rā whakamaumahara tēnei mā rātou i tū ki te mura o te ahi i taua wa.
Ka hoki mahara, ka tangi te ngākau ngā uri nei mō ō rātou tūpuna i whawhai mō te hemo noa atu.
“Nā rātou i para te huarahi kia hoki mai i te mana motuhake o Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei, i mea atu te Poutaki o te iwi, a Taiaha Hawke.
“Nā rātou te mana. Mei kore ko rātou ka kore ko mātou, nā reira he whakaaro aroha i tēnei wā me te mauritau o te ngākau.”
Wheoi kua hipa te whā tekau tau ā, inā te nui o ngā hua ka puta ki te iwi.
“Kua hoki mai i te whenua. Kua hanga tētahi pakihi, kia whai rawa mō te iwi. Waru tekau ngā whare kua hanga,” i kī atu a Hawke. “Kua hokihoki mai i te whānau ki te noho ki runga i te tūrangawaewae o ngā tūpuna, Kua hoki mai anō te reo, ara ake anō te reo i roto i a mātou.”
E whā tekau tau ki muri i mutu ai te noho porotēhi e rima rau mā ono ngā rā, a te hāukainga me ngā kaitaunaki i Takaparawhau, hei tohu i ngā whakaritenga a te kāwananga ki te hanga whare whai rawa ki reira.
Engari e tohe tonu ana te iwi i te kāwanatanga mō ngā take whakataunga whenua ā iwi kē atu.
“Kia aro mai te kāwanatanga ki ō rātou kī taurangi ki a mātou ki roto i ngā kerēme kua tau,” i kōrero atu a Hawke. “Ehara i te mea kua waitohuniga tērā kerēme kia riro atu tō mātou mana motuhake ki iwi kē.”
“I taua wā i aua tau i mauhere a Māori mā ngā ture o te kawanantanga me te kiriweti o ētahi o ngā tāngata o roto o te kāwanatanga,” i mea atu a Mabel Wharekawa-Burt o Tauranga Moana, Ngāi Te Rangi.
“Kei te haere tonu ngā mea i te rā nei.”
E kōkiri ana te iwi ki te Minita Whakatau i ngā take Tiriti, ki a Andrew Little ki te whakakore i ngā kerēme ā iwi kē atu ki te rohe o Tāmaki Makaurau.