'We made a National Park disappear'
Those are the words of the Te Urewera chairman, Tamati Kruger - or as his iwi call him, King Tut.
The High Court ruling last week that ordered an immediate halt to the burning of the huts in Te Urewera revealed some astonishing detail about what has gone wrong with the co-governance arrangements that were agreed in 2014.
The principal iwi negotiator for Tūhoe at the time was Tamati Kruger. Since then, he has gone on…
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