The Crown signed a settlement deed with Ngāti Hei for historical Treaty claims. The Crown acknowledged and apologized for breaches, including land loss and damage to cultural taonga such as Coromandel kauri forests. The package included cultural, financial and commercial redress. The government acknowledged that redress could not fully compensate for past injustice. The signing is an example of negotiated repair shaped by an iwi's claims and ratification process, with continuing questions about adequacy, land access and the practical scope of cultural restoration.
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Which harms were acknowledged in the Ngāti Hei deed?
The Crown cited land loss and degradation of cultural taonga including kauri forests.
The Ngāti Hei deed treated cultural taonga degradation as irrelevant to redress.
It acknowledged damage to cultural taonga including kauri forests.