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About Robert Mahuta
- Sir Robert Te Kotahi Mahuta (26 April 1939 – 1 February 2001) was a prominent Maori politician.
- He was born Robert Jeremiah Ormsby and changed his name by deed poll.Mahuta was the first Maori leader to negotiate a satisfactory compensation settlement with the New Zealand government for tribal land confiscated under European settlement in the fledgling colony.
- In a deal completed in late 1994, he won a package worth NZ$170m for his Tainui tribe for the seizure of 485,000 hectares of land in the North Island's Waikato Region 131 years earlier.
- Significantly for all Maori, the settlement included the first formal apology given by the Crown to the indigenous people for historical wrongs during colonisation.
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