The Māori fight for justice leads the way on how to reckon with a dark past.

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When the British colonized New Zealand, they left the country’s indigenous Māori population with nearly no land; war and new diseases they introduced to the islands nearly killed off all Māori. Nevertheless, Māori managed to survive — and for decades they protested against the British crown’s pillaging. By the 1970s, the crown could no longer ignore Māori’s mass uprisings rallying for justice; it was forced to respond and established a tribunal to investigate how it violated Māori sovereignty over New Zealand.

Since 1995, the British crown has been engaged in a process of land settlements with Māori — giving the tribes back land and cash, and offering apologies for their historical and modern-day thefts. By putting billions of dollars into this reparations program since the mid-1990s, New Zealand is leading the world with this kind of atonement and redress.

In this special episode of Missing Chapter, Vox reporter Fabiola Cineas traveled across New Zealand to explore how Māori are using the compensation to build a new future for themselves — and to investigate what the US can learn about reparations from their story.

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Additional sources:

Vox's companion piece by reporter Fabiola Cineas: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/235...

We referenced these maps from Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, to help create a rough map of government-recognized iwi: https://www.tkm.govt.nz/map/ Many iwi borders overlap with others, so in our map we used dots to symbolize iwi instead of exact boundaries.

The Treaty of Waitangi by Claudia Orange was helpful to understanding the treaty’s history, https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

The Treaty of Waitangi Settlements, edited by Nicola Wheen and Janine Hayward, provided different perspectives to understanding the impact of these settlements https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/treaty-of...

He Tohu, National Library of New Zealand,    • Land ownership  

The Alexander Turnbull Library Collections at the National Library, https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-...

Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, helped us understand the details of land loss, war, and inequality over time. https://teara.govt.nz/en

Waitangi Tribunal, https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/abou...

List of treaty settlements, https://www.govt.nz/browse/history-cu...

Waikato-Tainui settlement, https://www.govt.nz/browse/history-cu...

Ngati Maru settlement, https://www.govt.nz/assets/Documents/...

Museum of New Zealand, https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-c...

NZ History, https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/will...

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