Background
Historical Background
Deed of Settlement
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Deed of Settlement
The Deed of Settlement agreed between the Crown and the Pouakani People provides
for the following redress:
1. For the Historical Claims
- A Crown Apology that expresses the profound regret of the Crown and apologises unreservedly to the Pouakani People for failing to protect their interests in the lands they wished to retain;
- A Statement of Joint Aspirations between the Crown and the Pouakani People relating
to the management of Titiraupenga Mountain. Half of the mountain is owned by Trusts affiliated with the Pouakani People and the other half is owned by the Crown;
- A Statutory Acknowledgment relating to the Crown-owned half of Titiraupenga;
- A Memorandum of Understanding outlining how the Department of Conservation
and the Pouakani People will interact on specified matters;
- Financial redress of $2.65 million;
- The Right to Purchase an area of up to 1679 hectares of Pureora Central Forest,
a Crown-owned exotic pine forest; and
2. For the boundary claims
- Transfer of Tahae Farm, a former Landcorp property of approximately 1922 hectares;
- Stewardship land - the transfer of approximately 100 hectares of land of low conservation value that is currently farmed by Pouakani under an informal agreement with the Department of Conservation;
- Confirmation in legislation of the western boundary of the Pouakani Block and regularizing the boundary of the Pouakani B9B Block.
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