Talk:Māori politics

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Things still needing to be incorporated

The Confederation of the Chiefs of the United Tribes
The Maori King movement
The land rights movement (hikoi, Waitangi Tribunal, etc)

*What about real Maori politics? - rather than Maori involved in Pakeha politics!! --- the above unsigned edit was by User:222.154.50.142.

Anything else? The unsigned comment above does have a point - there is and was a lot of Māori politics that operated outside of the mainstream. For instance:

The Kotahitanga movement of the 19C to early 20th Century - a movement which set up a separate Māori parliamentary system. Very important and interesting. The Māori language newspapers like Huia Tangata Kotahi (1893-4) contain a lot of info on the meetings and the protocols they followed. Kahuroa 08:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Information about modern iwi structures and their internal politics would also be useful, I think. (I don't know much about it, unfortunately, or I'd write it myself). -- Vardion 04:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Maori Politicians

Should this be a seperate or semi-integrated category?

-- Greaser 02:24, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Māori politics

I have started a Māori politics category (link at the bottom of the Maori politics page), so please feel free to add any pages which might be relevant. I have taken a broad view of 'politics', so Tino Rangatiratanga and so forth are included, as are things like the Orewa speech which are of relevance to Maori even though created by Pakeha.

I will probably also create a Maori politicians category as well. This could perhaps replace the list on this page. --Helenalex 22:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Categories

I have reverted the removal of two categories because there is no explanation here about why they were removed. The first category's title, Category:Māori politics, is the title of this article. It is near impossible to understand how this article could fall outside it's parameters. From the second category's title, Category:Politics of New Zealand, I would understand the category to contain all articles related to the politics of New Zealand. As politics is a very broad term, and does not explicitly exclude indigenous peoples or minorities, I have been unable to determine why this article would fall outside the parameters of this category. The amendments were made via HotCat (edit summaries may not have been possible), so the associated editor will no doubt provide explanatiosn when they are next available. --Te Karere (talk) 10:11, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]