{"id":68249,"date":"2024-12-11T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/11\/new-zealand-maori-tribes-letter-king-charles-treaty-of-waitangi"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:37:35","slug":"maori-tribes-make-rare-plea-to-king-charles-for-intervention-in-new-zealand-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68249","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori tribes make rare plea to King Charles for intervention in New Zealand politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Open letter seen by the Guardian asks King to \u2018ensure the government does not diminish the crown\u2019s honour\u2019 amid tensions over policy direction for M\u0101ori<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/07\/treaty-of-waitangi-new-zealand-founding-document-changes-bill\">What is NZ\u2019s treaty principles bill and why is it controversial?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Representatives of more than 80 M\u0101ori tribes have issued a rare plea to King Charles III requesting his intervention in New Zealand politics, amid growing tension over the government\u2019s policies for M\u0101ori and a souring of the relationship between Indigenous people and ruling authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The National Iwi Chairs Forum \u2013 a collective of tribal leaders \u2013 has sent an open letter to the King asking him \u201cto ensure that the [New Zealand] government does not diminish the crown\u2019s honour\u201d over what they believe to be ongoing breaches of the crown\u2019s promises made to M\u0101ori in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/new-zealands-treaty-of-waitangi-explained-in-30-seconds\">Treaty of Waitangi<\/a>, the founding document of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/11\/new-zealand-maori-tribes-letter-king-charles-treaty-of-waitangi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Open letter seen by the Guardian asks King to \u2018ensure the government does not diminish the crown\u2019s honour\u2019 amid tensions over policy direction for M\u0101oriWhat is NZ\u2019s treaty principles bill and why is it controversial?Representatives of more t&#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":[41,2759,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-king-charles-iii","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249","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=68249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68250,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68249\/revisions\/68250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}