{"id":44451,"date":"2022-05-13T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/13\/new-zealands-presbyterian-church-will-offer-future-land-sales-to-maori-iwi-first"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:29:59","slug":"new-zealands-presbyterian-church-will-offer-future-land-sales-to-maori-iwi-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44451","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s presbyterian church will offer future land sales to M\u0101ori iwi first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major landowner says it has been on the \u2018other side of history\u2019 and wants to honour treaty <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s presbyterian church will offer any future land sales to M\u0101ori iwi first, as the institution reckons with its role in colonisation and land confiscations in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>The institution is a significant landowner across the country, with more than $1.5bn in land assets and 400 properties. Their decision comes at a time of increasing scrutiny on the church and its role in the colonisation of New Zealand, including as a beneficiary of confiscated or stolen land.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/13\/new-zealands-presbyterian-church-will-offer-future-land-sales-to-maori-iwi-first\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major landowner says it has been on the \u2018other side of history\u2019 and wants to honour treaty New Zealand\u2019s presbyterian church will offer any future land sales to M\u0101ori iwi first, as the institution reckons with its role in colonisation and land conf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-religion"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451\/revisions\/44452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}