The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira The Lobster’s Tale brings together

The Lobster’s Tale brings together award-winning writer Chris Price and distinguished photographer Bruce Foster

and Smith as a glass-ceiling breaker and sole practitioner in the formerly male dominated world of the law

reminding us that such entrenched discrimination isn’t just to be associated with the White Australia policy or apartheid South Africa or the old American South

clear-eyed grip

The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira The Lobster’s Tale brings togetherThe battle for Mori land and livelihoods In the second half of the nineteenth century, settlers poured into Aotearoa demanding land. Millions of acres were acquired by the government or directly by settlers; or confiscated after the Land Wars. By 1891, when the Liberal government came to power, Mori retained only a fraction of their lands. And still the losses continued. For rangatira such as James Carroll, Wiremu Pere, Pora Thaere, Te Keepa Te