Word: waitakaruru
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...Leanne Wilson doesn't care: the treaty's done nothing for her, she says. Three years ago the single mother bought a takeaway food shop in the tiny Coromandel town of Waitakaruru. "I did it all myself," she says. "I don't get anything from the iwi (tribes). The Maori Development Ministry gave me advice, but that's it. I stood on my own feet." For some New Zealanders, like Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia, the treaty is more about standing side by side. It "created the partnership between two peoples of this country - one the colonizer, the other...
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