Having stated thus, let's look at some of the whakapapa. Some of my colleagues have given more details, but we note that Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua did not sign the Treaty of Waitangi. They have contributed greatly to the nation through military service and wealth created from their lands, some of which has been gifted as with Wairarapa Moana. As is their wont, in some of the bad faith that we will often see from the Crown, they forced the cession of tens of thousands of acres of land in 1845, threatened to end Pākehā settlement in Wairarapa and Tāmaki nui-ā-Rua to force land sales, and failed to uphold the rangatiratanga of the Wairarapa Moana, failed to actively protect te reo Māori, which we all know means they actively attacked our language in parts of the attempt to assimilate Māori, which, of course, they did around the country.