The extensive loss of Ngāti Maru lands has eroded tribal structures, created severe poverty, and damaged the physical, cultural, and spiritual health of generations of Ngāti Maru people, and that is what this bill aims to redress. So it is in a spirit of remorse and with a genuine hope for reconciliation in this bill that the Crown acknowledges and apologises to Ngāti Maru for its acts and omissions which breached the Crown's obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and the damage that those actions caused to Ngāti Maru. These include acknowledgments relating to the wars in Taranaki in the 1860s, the Crown's confiscation of approximately half of the Ngāti Maru rohe, its imprisonment of Ngāti Maru men without trial following their participation in protests initiated at Parihaka regarding the confiscation of Taranaki lands, and its subsequent invasion and destruction of Parihaka. The deed will also include acknowledgment that the Crown failed to ensure that Ngāti Maru retained sufficient land for their present and future needs, and that it failed to protect their rangatiratanga.