There is a long history which Ahuriri have had to endure, whether it's landlessness, the dispossession of lands, the conflicts that arose through no fault of Ahuriri actually, but they were just caught up in these conflicts—Ōmarunui in particular, and the other Crown attacks in Herepoho during the New Zealand Wars. It was a dark period in our nation's history and Mana Ahuriri certainly felt the brunt of the aftermath of those conflicts, only being left with a mere wee fraction of land, but virtually completely landless and with all of the resulting hardships that a dispossessed people has faced. And not only over the lands but over their tribal domain of their water bodies and, in particular, the estuary of Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu. It's right that we instil a new level of relationship and authority for Mana Ahuriri over their ancestral landscapes and their water bodies and traditional lands.