This three volume set Wai 1040 Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kawanatanga was first released online on 22 December 2022. It considered 415 claims brought by individuals, whanau, hapu, and iwi organisations. The Tribunal received the claims between 1985 and 2008, and heard them during 26 hearings from March 2013 to October 2017. Part 1 of the report focused on claims and evidence relating to the nineteenth century. It follows the Tribunals stage 1 report, He Whakaputanga me te Tiriti / The Declaration and the Treaty: Report on Stage 1 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry, which concluded that the rangatira who signed te Tiriti in the Bay of Islands and Hokianga in February 1840 did not cede their sovereignty.