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The Ng Ā Ti Te Korotuohu Tribe Essay

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Introduction
The Ngāti Te Korotuohu tribe has come to a law firm in order to ask for advice about claiming full chieftainship over all of the Waihau, including all of the coastal areas, and to see whether they are able to get assistance from the commonwealth jurisdictions as well as the United Nations in order to progress with their claims.

Facts
Ngāti Korotuohu is an iwi (tribe) whose traditional tribal sea and land domain, known as Waihau, is a territory which includes a large natural harbour and coastline of approximately 100 kms in the north-west of the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The area of Waihau is approximately 2,400 square hectares, much of that being bordered by the sea and they often engaged in deep sea fishing 15 kms out to sea. Most of Waihau has been passed down from generation to generation since the beginning of time to present day.
The tribes continue to live on the land and exploit its resources for everyday survival; including fishing, harvesting kaimoana (seafood), manu (birds) and other traditional foods and medicines, bathing and cooking in different hot pools along the beach and elsewhere, for collecting hangi stones and other minerals such as gravel for constructing building foundations and paths, using pounamu (greenstone jade) for rituals, carving and trade, and the tribe even used raw petroleum from a section of Waihau for fuelling fires and lamps.
The land of Waihau also contains an ancient burial ground, sacred sights and other

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