Maori progress
Sir, — The Law Society conference (“The Press,” April 27) found that comparisons of Maori attainments with those of United States blacks were in favour of the latter. The more apt comparisons are those with aboriginal peoples of America, Australia, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, as these have the common factor of land dispossession from peoples, traditionally gatherers, hunters, or pastoralists, to whom the land was also spiritually important. Whereas American blacks were separated from their lands by enslavement this issue is hardly in contention for them today. America’s unification war, fought more out of enmity than any motive of civil liberty, gave the blacks their freedom at a tiihe when Maori land battles had only begun and are not yet resolved. — Yours,, etc., J. RUNGA . . ’ (Kahungunu). April 27, 1981.
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