One of the most elaborate systems of investigation into any nation’s colonial past is New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal, first set up in 1975, and which has now issued over 100 major reports on all aspects of the history of Maori interaction with the colonial state. The Waitangi Tribunal also exemplifies some particular features of the legal history of the Treaty of Waitangi, which in New Zealand has become seen as semi-constitutional text which forms an internal standard for legal investigations and for negotiation of redress. Current developments in New Zealand are highly consistent with long-established state practice, where relationships between the state and Maori have always been a matter of legal and political importance. Although the Waitangi Tribunal has some features in common with truth commissions in other countries, in many ways it is quite different from them.

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新西兰政治文化和历史学背景下的怀唐伊法庭

新西兰的怀唐伊法庭始建于1975年，是对任何国家的殖民地历史进行研究的最详尽的系统之一，至今已发表了100多份关于毛利人与殖民地国家互动历史各个方面的重大报告。怀唐伊法庭还举例说明了《怀唐伊条约》法律历史的某些特殊特征，在新西兰已被视为半宪法文本，构成了法律调查和赔偿谈判的内部标准。新西兰目前的事态发展与悠久的国家实践高度吻合，在该实践中，国家与毛利人之间的关系一直具有法律和政治重要性。尽管怀唐伊法庭与其他国家的真相委员会具有某些共同点，