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CHRIS No, if you wanted to have a development you'd go to the person who holds the customary title, and you'd say can I build my wharf here, and they may say well no that is the site of an urupa, and for historical reasons we don't want that to happen.
NZ On Screen 2010
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Mr Tata said no one else would get away with flaunting iwi protocols, triggered when earthworks took place so close to a cultural site, in this case a significant urupa (burial) and former pa site.
Bay of Plenty Times 2010
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Bracey's canvases were indictments of the misuse of the rohe of Tainui, indictments of overgrazed dairy paddocks eroding into the Waikato River, of gorse and scrub clogging ancient tributaries of the great river, of urupa being over-run by blackberries ...
Reading the Maps 2009
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