A treaty was signed I good faith, and some years later was broken by both sides and war was fought.
The wars call them what you may, was in fact a civil war, a war for power over the lands and its people.
That makes the treaty redundant and has no place in our future and the victors rule.
In recent times we have been let down by our politicians as they bought the treaty back and lawyers get rich. The Maori have constantly accuse all others of wrong doings and lay claims, also wanting sovereignty all under a treaty that is as I see it, redundant.
Politicians have given the Maori seats in parliament, their own TV. channel, privileges in health and welfare, their own schooling plus much more in pay outs to get them started in trumped up schemes. And what did fellow Kiwis get.
The settlements made by the crown I see are illegal in two counts. One, they were settled on basis of the treaty, which we all know is illegitimate and two, they never at any stage consulted with the rest of New Zealand, not once, not one other race was talked to on each individual settlement, all been done by politicians, lawyers and iwi.
In short people we do not have a treaty as it was broken, and our politicians have done us wrong by giving one race things it was and is not entitled too.
The Treaty has been a divisive document since its signing, civil war and greed by both had broken the agreement and laid it to rest and should stay dead.

Richard. A.Stewart, Te Puke.