16 Dec 2014

Te Manu Korihi News for 16 December 2014

From Te Manu Korihi, 6:49 pm on 16 December 2014

The Climate Change Minister has reprimanded the Climate Change Iwi Leaders Group, over its representative at the United Nations Climate Change meeting in Peru; Local Government New Zealand is backing demands made by Northland Regional Councillor and former MP Dover Samuels that Māori that are multiple owners of land pay their rates; Statistics New Zealand has found that nearly 400-thousand tangata wheneua know their Marae, but only half of them have visited it in the past year; First Nations people in the United States have told a Maori woman working for a native American entity that they're using Maori culture to help them to keep their language alive.