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It is a tribunal board set up to investigate and settle disputes that arise over the Treaty of Waitangi.
1841
The Waitangi Tribunal is significant because it investigates Maori claims of the Treaty of Waitangi breaches made by the Crown. The tribunal also makes recommendations on these claims. While the permanent commission of inquiry deals with claims made from 1840 onward, it has made binding rulings on events before 1840.
Tim Shoebridge has written: 'Waitangi Tribunal bibliography, 1975-2005' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Claims, Land tenure, Maori (New Zealand people), New Zealand, New Zealand. Waitangi Tribunal
it is used to settle disputes between countries.
Waitangi
1840
The Maori name for the Treaty of Waitangi is "Te Tiriti o Waitangi."
The Treaty of Waitangi enabled British settlement on a bigger scale. For Maori it intially offered security as they had concerns over the colonisation of NZ by the French & the behaviour of some early British settlers. Maori operated under the assumption that they would retain control of their lands and receive protection from the British. The British and subsequent settlers took the Treaty (which had two ambiguous versions) to mean that they were now in control of NZ.
Because the treaty was signed in waitangi also known as Russell
Er ... was it perhaps Waitangi?
Waitangi is in the Bay of Islands, Northland.