The right of Maori people to rule themselves; self-determination.
the constitution reaffirms the principle of rangatiratanga
Example sentencesExamples
- In turn, the Government acknowledged our rights of rangatiratanga over matters Maori.
- This means concessions to rangatiratanga that look like racial preference to some.
- There is nothing whatsoever in the treaty that says that social structures, mana, and rangatiratanga will not be eroded.
- Absolute legal equality cannot co-exist with rangatiratanga or self-government.
- Rangatiratanga is not about going one way down a blind alley to a hollow end.
- Still it makes no effort to state what rangatiratanga is.
- I would like to have the member's translation of "rangatiratanga" in this context.
- This is an absolute abrogation of the principle of rangatiratanga inherent in the deed of settlement.
- Because of this, Maori have to somehow exercise rangatiratanga within the mainstream legal system.
- It is the Government and the State that now have to move forward and leave these people alone to exercise their own rangatiratanga.