{"id":48764,"date":"2022-09-23T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/maori-tribe-secures-landmark-apology-and-compensation-over-colonial-atrocities"},"modified":"2022-09-23T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T03:56:36","slug":"maori-tribe-secures-landmark-apology-and-compensation-over-colonial-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48764","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori tribe secures landmark apology and compensation over colonial atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations <\/p>\n<p>It took decades of fighting for reparations but a M\u0101ori tribe has finally secured a long-awaited apology and millions of dollars in redress for atrocities committed by the crown, including for its \u201cindiscriminate\u201d killings and \u201cmassive\u201d alienation of tribal land.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a charter train wound its way down the spine of New Zealand\u2019s North Island, picking up hundreds of Ng\u0101ti Maniapoto iwi (tribe) members. The iwi travelled for nine hours until they reached Wellington where, the next day, they joined many more members in the parliament\u2019s public gallery to witness the Maniapoto claims settlement bill become law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/maori-tribe-secures-landmark-apology-and-compensation-over-colonial-atrocities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations It took decades of fighting for reparations but a M\u0101ori tribe has finally secured a long-awaited apology and millions of dollars in redress for atrocities committed by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48764\/revisions\/48765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}