As Dame Tariana Turia stated in her maiden speech, what has been delivered to us? One hundred and eighty years of struggling to have the Treaty recognised in law, that we have survived despite cultural extermination practices, assimilation of policies, monocultural institutions, treacherous land-stealing laws, tauiwi bureaucracies that have run our affairs, denial of our tangata whenua status, and struggling to maintain cultural identity, integrity, tikanga, and to keep our language alive.