...is article two which states the following: Her majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the...respective families and individuals thereof the full and exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries and other properties...

...villages, and treasured possessions (taonga). (In the English version, the second article gets weakened to "full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their...Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties.") In responding to these difficulties of treaty interpretation from the 1980s onward, the tribunal increasingly...

...so, the Maori have managed to use the treaty to regain some of their rights, for it guaranteed them 'full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their...and estates forests fisheries and other properties'. The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 as a permanent commission of inquiry into Maori claims...

...British Government signed a treaty with 213 Maori chiefs at Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi gave Maori 'exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands...estates. forests. fisheries and other properties' 1Article 2. text in English. Orange 1989: 311. Yet within a short while Maori were being deceived and...

...Article 2, Maori leaders and people, collectively and individually, were confirmed in and guaranteed "exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands...estates, forests, fisheries and other properties", whereas in Maori they were guaranteed "te tino rangatiratanga" - the unqualified exercise of their...

...article of the Treaty of Waitangi states that "Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the...and desire to retain the same in their possession" (modern English translation of the Maori version, available at (http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/back/treat.htm#E2))....

...meaning simply governorship. In Article Two of the English version, the chiefs and tribes were guaranteed 'the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of...and desire to retain the same in their possession'. In the Maori version, which left out the condition of collective or individual possession, the guarantee...

...founded upon the rights guaranteed in article 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi, which guaranteed to Maori the "full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of..."which they may collectively or individually possess" (English version). In the Maori version of the treaty, the guarantee was in relation to their tino...

...sole Sovereigns thereof. Article the second: Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the...families and individuals thereof, the full exclusive possession of the Lands and Estates, Forest, Fisheries, and other properties which they may collectively...

...since, the iwi have pursued the goal of "full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands Forest Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively...individually possess so long as it is their wish and their desire to retain the same in their possession," which is guaranteed in Article Two of the Treaty...