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chaithetics · 18 days ago

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THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL IS BEING PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE TOMORROW!!!!!!!

EDIT: SIGN THIS PETITION THAT CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT AOTEAROA TIME 18TH NOV

EDIT: Here's a link with more info on the Bill and it's contents and breaches!

This matters to EVERYONE in our country! If you're Māori this is about our LITERAL existence, if you're Pākehā, tauiwi, tangata Tiriti this concerns you because Tiriti is what gives you the privilege of existing on this whenua! The Waitangi Tribunal has already said this Bill will be the biggest Waitangi breach ever. YOU have a responsibility to do something.

ACT, our coalition government, and the Ministry of Justice have been intentionally keeping this bill under the wraps. Mad mihi to the MoJ analyst who leaked that draft though (I'm sure they got sacked if not massive repercussions).

What we know so far is that Te Pāti Māori, Green Party, and Labour WILL NOT be voting for this and that ACT, NZ First, and National WILL be voting for this tomorrow. NZ First and National have said that they WILL NOT support this Bill after its first reading so it will go to Select Committee and then die at first reading.

National and NZ First have said they'll only support this Bill to first reading (thankfully) but there is always the chance of closed door promises & favours and we still need to advocate for this disgusting bill to die.

I'll post more about submissions when they open for Select Committee but I'm happy to help answer questions or help with that and the process.

But the racist idiots to email and drill in that you DO NOT want this Bill are...

ACT MPs

1. David Seymour (Email: [email protected] ) (the one bigoted brain cell behind this bill)

2. Brooke Van Velden ([email protected])

3. Nicole McKee ([email protected])

4. Todd Stephenson ([email protected])

5. Andrew Hoggard ([email protected])

6. Karen Chhour ([email protected])

7. Mark Cameron ([email protected])

8. Simon Court ([email protected])

9. Parmjeet Parmat ([email protected])

10. Laura Trask ([email protected])

11. Cameron Luxton ([email protected])

AND

- Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ([email protected])

- Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters ([email protected])

If you're able to participate with any part of the hīkoi please do and please be safe!!!!

Toitū te Tiriti! Ake ake ake!

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irawhiti · 1 year ago

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kia ora! i would like to suggest the coining of a term that would hopefully help a large demographic of mostly-forgotten-about māori to connect with each other and share our experiences to feel less alone, congregate around a concept regardless of country of origin and upbringing, and organise as activists.

i politely ask as many people to spread this as possible to help indigenous people organise with each other and to get the largest amount of interactions possible.

anyway, with all that being said,

i would like to coin the term "ngāti rangiātea" for māori who do not know their iwi to use.

this is based on the well known whakataukī/proverb, "i will never be lost, for i am a seed which was sown from rangiātea." i chose this whakataukī due to the spiritual significance of rangiātea as a place in māori culture, as well as to emphasise that no matter how it feels, we are not lost, we can find ourselves in each other, we can experience strength and self-realisation, and that we will exist with mana and without whakamā as rightful tangata whenua.

i've put my reasoning, personal experiences shaping my viewpoints on the matter, and various statistics under the cut to make this post reblog-friendly and i would suggest fellow māori read it regardless of whether or not they know their iwi. i also ask for the opinions of other māori, ESPECIALLY AND SPECIFICALLY other māori who do not know their iwi. in fact, i politely ask māori to share this with their whānau and people in general to share this with māori they know, especially any they know who do not know their iwi. a wide reach is what i am going for to get the largest amount of voices, critiques, and opinions on the topic and to avoid this from just becoming a very small thing that stays in an online echo-chamber.

to begin, the 2018 aotearoan census shows that, of the 775,836 people identifying as māori in aotearoa, roughly 17% are unable to identify their iwi in the census. this has gone up by 1% since 2006, showing that we are a considerably stable percentage of people. along with this, there are more than 170,000 māori living in australia and, while there are no solid statistics, there are an estimated 8,000 māori living in the UK, 3,500 in the US, 2,500 in canada, and 8,000 in other countries where there's no option for māori or any polynesians on the census.

this number adds up to 967,816 total māori and while there's no census in these countries asking for your iwi, i would go as far as to assume that there's a larger number of diaspora māori who are no longer able to identify their iwi than there are in aotearoa. of course, this is just speculation based on my lived experiences and conversations with other diaspora māori, however even assuming that it's the exact same amount globally, 17%, this is roughly 164,532 māori worldwide who do not know their iwi. nearly one in five māori do not know their iwi.

regardless of the specific statistics, the hard fact here is that there is a large percentage of māori who are unsure of their iwi for whatever reason. it's extremely easy to feel unsure of yourself, lost, disconnected, and uncomfortable speaking on issues regarding te ao māori when you're unsure of your iwi (or your hapū, whānau, waka, or anything else, but there is heavy emphasis on the iwi) and it's very easy for whakamā to take hold, especially when many māori who can recite their whakapapa aren't very polite or understanding about your situation to say the least.

and there are a lot of those people.

unfortunately, i've spoken to many māori who are of the opinion that not knowing your iwi due to colonialism, assimilation, forced disconnection, etc. means that you should not, cannot, call yourself māori. this is a disgusting viewpoint to have and in my opinion it spits on the fundamental concepts of māori culture and worldviews. thankfully this is a small yet vocal group of people, but even so, they add to the collective experience that makes it extremely difficult to navigate a world while full of whakamā and internalised racism. it can feel like there's no space for you, no term you can use, nobody you can relate to, no mana you can claim, nothing. when you cannot recite your whakapapa, it can feel like there's a part of you that's fundamentally missing.

as well as this, even when people mean well, when you are in this situation, you're usually told to just do some genealogy work, do some research, ask your family what they know. sometimes, these steps are simply not possible. other times, we've already done everything suggested over and over and over again. we're generally told "oh, that sucks, but one day you'll find out, keep looking!" in response to our lack of iwi. sure, they mean well, but i have never once been told anything along the lines of "that's okay, some things are lost to time through no fault of your own. don't beat yourself up over something your whānau had to hide to survive, what you do now to uphold your family's mana, what you do know about your whānau, and who you ultimately become is more important than what you no longer know."

and why? why is it seen as shameful to say matter-of-factly that i don't know my iwi? i'm not looking for comfort, i'm not looking to be told that, aww, there there, i'll find it eventually. i'm stating a fact. i do not need pity, i need my mana and voice to be respected.

this concept is what i want to emphasise by coining ngāti rangiātea. some things are lost to time, but we aren't. our loss of knowledge does not mean that we are unworthy of being māori, that we are unworthy of basic human respect. it does not mean that we have lost everything that our whānau knows. it is a scar, a reminder of what colonisation took from us, yes, but we cannot allow it to continue to be an open bleeding wound. we will not be lost to time and we should not bow our heads and act like we do not exist, that we're inconvenient, that we damage the "image" that māori have. in fact, we are an important aspect of māori culture and ignoring our existence does harm to everybody.

and of course we can't speak on some topics regarding te ao māori. this seems to be a topic that comes up frequently as a strawman. yes, there are some topics that would be irresponsible to speak on when we have no experience with them. this doesn't mean we can't speak on anything. having a collective identity, an "iwi" to congregate around even just politically, would help us speak on topics that we are more qualified to speak on than māori with knowledge of their iwi (yes, those topics exist, shockingly.)

we will never be lost, for we are a seed sown in rangiātea.

by identifying as ngāti rangiātea, i wish to emphasise that it's important to accept that sometimes, someone just won't be able to find every piece of information. loss of family knowledge is literally one of the primary goals of forced assimilation! we all went through it as colonised peoples, why must we continue to attach shame to those of us who were forced to obfuscate our history to keep our children alive? it's not a personal flaw, it's not a dirty secret, it's a fact of life that must not continue to be kept quiet out of shame, and the sooner we can focus on healing this subsection of our community, the stronger māori as a whole will become.

so, this is why i'd like to coin a term for māori who are unsure of their iwi. this is what i intend to achieve by giving us a name, our own "iwi" to congregate around, to identify ourselves as. instead of hanging my head and saying "i'm not sure what my iwi is, i'm sorry", instead of feeling inclined to beg like a dog to be treated with respect, i would like to look people in the eye and tell them that i am ngāti rangiātea. i would like this label to be synonymous with strength and not shame, that i refuse to let my whakamā swallow me, that i am just as worthy of calling myself māori as anyone else, that there are many others in my iwi (or lack thereof). i would like other people to have that as well and i would like those like me to feel less lost when all they've been told is "well, you'll learn your iwi eventually!" as if that's going to help someone feel better if they can't find their iwi.

and even if a person finds their iwi eventually, it's absolutely disgraceful that people are treated that they're not allowed to access many basic parts of te ao māori until they discover something they are not even 100% destined to find. i think that this view contributes to a lot of people who eventually find their iwi becoming unnecessarily arrogant towards those who truly cannot find this information, that they're just not putting enough effort in. if a person finds their iwi after identifying as ngāti rangiātea, they are fully welcome to continue to identify as this political label along with the iwi they now know they belong to as i wish for it to be a term that describes your experiences, your upbringing, and your community. you don't suddenly lose your whānau or your lived experience when you discover your whakapapa.

finally, this hopefully goes without saying, but ngāti rangiātea is not meant to function as a real existing iwi does. the term will hopefully be used as a way to identify yourself and other people and organise but i don't expect nor do i want this to be treated like a coordinated iwi. i expect and hope for this to be a decentralised way of identifying and experiencing community to make it easier to organise as a people. think of this the way the terms ngāti kangaru, ngāti rānara, ngāti tūmatauenga etc. are used.

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so, the tl;dr is that i feel like coining a name for a phenomenon that nearly one in five of all māori experience in quiet shame, to make it easier for us to congregate and find each other, speak on our experiences, organise as activists, feel less lost, and ultimately give us the ability to regain our mana as a community with shared goals and experiences. i have spoken to many māori who feel this way and my suggestion for this term is ngāti rangiātea, to show homage to the well known whakataukī, "i will never be lost, for i am a seed sown from rangiātea", to give us a community to work with, and to give us an "iwi" to list when asked instead of fumbling for words and feeling whakamā.

i would like to take the emphasis off of constantly looking to the future for what you may or may not even find with this identity. we are not broken, we are not lost, for we are seeds sown in ngāti rangiātea.

tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tatou katoa, and if you got this far, thank you for reading.

#maori #māori #pasifika #indigenous #indigenous issues #polynesia #aotearoa #aotearoa new zealand #new zealand #tangata whenua #new zealand politics #politics #i was considering calling it smth along the lines of ngāti whāngai to represent that we would be whānau from different paths and family #but ngāti rangiātea felt more succinct and meaningful. particularly with how it's very easy to feel lost when you're unsure of your iwi #please boost this even if you're not māori as i'd like as many people to see as possible <3 #anyway i'm quite nervous and i hope this doesn't come across like i'm trying to be any kind of authority haha #i just feel like this is an extremely important topic that affects many people but is rarely spoken about for various reasons #ngāti rangiātea

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weshallflyaway · 10 days ago

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Most epic moment in politics today goes to MP Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke ripping up the treaty principles bill and performing the Ka Mate Haka.

#aotearoa #Tangata Whenua #David Seymour can go to hell #Youtube

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optimisticslytherin · 7 days ago

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#Tangata Whenua #Maori #te tiriti o waitangi #toitū te tiriti #fuck David Seymour #lets see less of you please #Fuck the Bill

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gaypirateslife4me · 4 months ago

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Gorgeous and evocative.

#carlo van de roer #taika waititi #rita ora #toru #maori culture #aotearoa #maori art #tangata whenua

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tetohe · 5 days ago

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This was incredible to be part of! To see so many people from every sort of background walking in unity, not just against the bill, but in support of moving forwards as a country centered around Te Tiriti.

One for the literal history books...

50,000 people 🖤🥝

#toitū te tiriti #aotearoa #Māori #Tangata Tiriti #tangata whenua

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magdelanian · 5 days ago

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Hīkoi mō te tiriti 19/11/24

#I was lucky enough to be able to get leave from work to attend #phenomenal day - the energy in town was impeccable #all the chants and the waiata #the trolleys full of chubby napping babies #the supporters yelling out from the windows and balconies #teachers wrangling their classes all in uniform and handing out the biscuits #the absolute mana of all tangata whenua!!#at one point a little kid got lost and this message went rippling up the hīkoi asking people to look out for him and then after ten minutes #the crowd parted down the middle seamlessly as he was carried back to his mum by a stranger and everyone was cheering lil bub on :')#idk man. ive been to a lot of protests down this stretch of road in my time. this one felt different

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the-quiet-fire-of-defiance · 1 year ago

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The Māori tino rangatiratanga [sovereignty, self-determination] flag flying alongside Palestinian flags. The tino rangatiratanga flag is black at the top and red at the bottom, the two colours separated by white lines forming a koru (spiral). The Palestinian flag has three horizontal stripes (black, white and green) with a red triangle on the left.

"Pro-Palestine protest at Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Rarotonga"

A young child holding an ili (Samoan woven fan) that says Samoa for Palestine

A young boy holds a sign reading Justice the seed, peace the flower / Ko te mana whakaaiko hei kākano, kia puawai mai te maungarongo. Beneath is artwork of a fist breaking free from chains below blooming flowers.

Left: the 1975 Māori Land March. Right: the 2018-2019 Palestinian Great March of Return.

If we want to free Hawai'i... [Hawaiian flag] we must also free Palestine [Palestinian flag]. Credit to @ainamomona

A young Māori boy holding a sign that reads MANA MOTUHAKE [independence/autonomy] 4 PALESTINE

A Fijian woman holding a sign that reads Food is not a weapon of war! Stop starving Palestinians! Behind are two more signs. One says CEASEFIRE NOW and the other says DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT GAZA

A group of Fijians holding candles and wearing shirts that read STOP THE GENOCIDE

Left: a diagram of Palestinian land loss between 1946 and 2009. Right: a diagram of Māori land loss in the North Island of Aotearoa between 1860 and 2000.

A sign reading TANGATA WHENUA [indigenous people] FOR PALESTINE [tino rangatiratanga symbol, Palestine flag symbol]

Three Pasifika people holding signs. The first says MAI LE VAITAFE AGA'I I LE SAMI! [Samoan: from the river to the sea] FREE PALESTINE! The second sign says FROM OUR PASIFIKA OCEAN TO THE RIVER TO THE SEA FREE PALESTINE. The final sign shows the Palestinian and Tongan flags and says 'OFA KI PALESITAINE [Tongan: Love to Palestine]

A group of Pasifika holding signs and banners. They say "HOW MANY MORE KILLINGS IS ENOUGH FOR YOU?" "KŪ'E! KŪ'E! [Hawaiian: Resist! Resist!] PASIFIKA STANDS WITH PALESTINE" "'OFA KI PALESTINE" "FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE" "WHERE IS YOUR HUMANITY?" "SAMOANS FOR PALESTINE" "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" "KŪ'E KŪ'E KANAKA WITH PALESTINE" "FREE PALESTINE CEASEFIRE NOW"

A West Papuan man holding two signs. The first says WEST PAPUA STAND WITH MYANMAR. The second says WEST PAPUA STAND WITH PALESTINE

Two signs. The first says PACIFIC ISLANDERS FOR PALESTINE. The second says #FREE PALESTINE #FREE WEST PAPUA #FREE CONGO #FREE SUDAN

A Palestinian flag decorated with Samoan patterns. Words say 'AGA'I MAI LE VAITAFE E O'O ATU I LE SAMI FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA #Sāmoans4Palestine

A tweet from Tamatha Paul (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Awa) on 29 June 2023. Another big win this week, courtesy of @Just4Pal and @nikau4poneke, we [Pōneke Wellington] will be Sister Cities with the Palestinian city of Ramallah 😍 Free Palestine!!!

A Pasifika woman holding two signs. The first says FREE PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE END THE APARTHEID! END THE BLOCKADE! END THE ETHNIC CLEANSING! CEASE STATE SANCTIONED VIOLENCE! CEASE COLONIALISM! BOYCOTT ISRAEL! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! The second sign has pictures of Palestinian and West Papuan flags. It says pacific islanders stand in solidarity with Palestine! #FREEWESTPAPUA #FREEPALESTINE CEASE COLONIALISM

A sign that has the tino rangatiratanga flag at the top and Palestinian flag at the bottom. It says Mai te awa ki te moana [from the river to the sea] MĀORI LAW STUDENTS For a FREE PALESTINE

A Pasifika woman holding a sign decorated with Pacific symbols. It says LONG LIVE PALESTINE - PASIFIKA 4 PALESTINE - FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

Another Samoan fan. This one says PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

#long post #palestine #pacific #māori #indigenous rights

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takataapui · 16 days ago

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hi there, i'm sorry if you're not interested in answering these kinds of questions, but i'm having a lot of difficulty understanding the treaty principles bill that's being brought to parliament. all the sources ive read seem to be using big words to confuse people who don't know any better, and sadly i am one of those people. i have no idea what impact this would have if it passes. could you give any clarification?

copypasting from @sandumilfshou, thanks for this explanation e hoa, my little vent post blew up way more than I was expecting:

the treaty principles bill is essentially "redefining" the articles of te tiriti under david seymour's dumbass belief that acknowledging and putting into effect any policy or legislation that does this means that te tiriti is giving māori "special privileges" that no other people in aotearoa have and therefore is racist. so it basically seeks to redefine the two parties within te tiriti from māori and the crown to "all new zealanders" and the crown. effectively this destroys the whole point of te tiriti and would remove any/all protections for māori as tangata whenua* and undermine rangatiratanga** completely. its insidious and disgusting ✊🖤❤️🤍✊ *broadly this can be understood as the recognised acknowledged indigenous people of the land **sovereignty and self determination of māori. this particular word has a lot of meaning that the original te tiriti signing fucked over due to eng/te reo translation bullshit

I'll also add that there are heaps of iwi (loosely translated as tribes) that haven't been able to/had the resources to file a treaty claim with the Waitangi Tribunal (a system created to 'reconcile' the ways Te Tiriti was breached), so Principle 2 fucks over a lot of smaller iwi and hapū.

As well as my mention of the hīkoi being a reason why the bill was introduced earlier, it's also highly likely that the date change was due at least in part to the Waitangi Tribunal not being able to publish material related to government bills once they've been introduced.

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gulfportofficial · 9 months ago

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Nothing will ever be as satisfying as drawing like the shittiest but still legible world map on the board, pointing out Nantucket, and then showing where the Pequod (/Essex) had to sail (BECAUSE OF HAVING KILLED ALL THE WHALES IN THE ATLANTIC ALREADY.) Double-plus fun explaining that they could not yet sail through the NWP or Panama Canal, but that BOY were people trying to make those happen. I explained how long it took, and was like, so yeah, on that alone, I agree. He should have quit. My student darkly like, "They all should have quit." And I'm just like bam not only have you FULLY understood the point of this book BUT this is the most fun I've had in a goddamned while. Thank you, precious student, for liking my special depression and autism whale book about resource wars in the name of colonial capitalism.

Moby Dick again.

Guys, one of my students is reading an abridged, age-appropriate, ESL learner-appropriate copy of Moby Dick and it is so interesting. A lot of things they simply spell out because that makes sense for the English level as a reader (some of which are weird choices, like for example explicitly stating Queequeg is from New Zealand, like specifically New Zealand the British colonial nation, not Aotearoa the indigenous name, but he isn't from there anyway, maori is just another word for indigenous, in Te Reo it's Māori and from description IMO Queequeg's Tahitian Mā'ohi. Other changes are more straightforward.) Like for example, this version starts, "Call me Ishmael. That is not my real name." Obviously OG you pick that up even though it's never said but it's interesting because it means we can talk about it together. Especially because I had such a great time explaining the concept of an unreliable narrator, and how some are lying to you on purpose, some are not in their right minds, some don't even have an inkling they're not seeing clearly, some have a view that is simply limited by being one human, and most are combinations.

Anyway, it was such a lovely chat to have and I am absolutely beyond touched that she literally started reading this because I like it so much. Also she has OPINIONS about Ahab and it's dope and also it's very fun to be in a super homophobic situation like my school and just casually say about a work of great literature, "Oh yes, they'll be sharing a bed for the rest of the book."

#btw while Māori is definitely used in Aotearoa it's kinda colloquial?#like not offensive at all or anything just colloquial #If you wanna do it like RIGHT right you would say Tangata Whenua #That's... IF you have a reason to refer to indigenous Aotearoa as a single political group rather than to individual Iwi #dickposting

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onekindredspirit · 7 months ago

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In New Zealand we call this Raupo. The word comes from the language of the Tangata Whenua (the people of the land) - the Maori. Ever since I was a child I have been drawn to Raupo and the places it inhabits - wetland, swamp and the unproductive margins left by voracious capital. One Kindred Spirit Polaroid

#polaroid #nature #photographers on tumblr #instant film #original photography #analog photography #landscape #new zealand

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chaithetics · 17 days ago

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Principles of the Treaty Bill Info/Summaries

If like David Seymour, you don't want to read the documents, here's some bullet points for Treaty Principles Bill, the Waitangi Report, and the Regulatory Impact Statement for the Bill. But if you want to read I included links (he's said on the record he didn't read the Waitangi report...)

But seriously, it is your responsibility to read and educate yourself on this and to show up, at the very least making submissions when Select Committee happens but also emailing MPs and showing up to the Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi and activations if you can. Especially if you're Pākehā or tauiwi because this whole Bill and process is MORE colonial trauma for Māori.

1st reading is next week (11th-15th Nov) ACT are the only party in Parliament that will vote for it at its 2nd reading, still disgraceful from National that they'd let this be introduced at all.

The Bill Summary

The Act would come into force 6 months after the referendum if it was successful (we know it's not getting past 2nd reading).

The Principles here wouldn't apply to historical Tribunal claims. The Act would bind the Crown.

Principle 1 is about the Executive Government having full power to govern all New Zealanders. Misinterprets Kāwangatanga.

Principle 2 is that the Crown recognises the rights of iwi and hapū as long as they don't differ from everyone else unless specified in a historical Treaty Claim. It feeds into the myth of "Māori privilege' that ACT is spinning. This also revokes the Crown's promise made in 1840. Also a breach of some of the previously established principles tino rangatiratanga, kāwanatanga, partnership, and active protection

Principle 3 is just that everyone would be 'equal under the law.' Misinterprets article 3 of the Treaty/Tiriti and is another breach of several of the above principles.

The Bills says that these principles MUST be used for interpreting enactments and other principles cannot be used. Discredits important principles in previous Tribunal cases and creates a narrow scope.

Read the Treaty of Principles Bill here.

Waitangi Tribunal Report

Says that the Bill principles are misinterpretations and misinterpretations of Tiriti/Treaty and are breaches of accepted principles from precedence like active protection, equity, tino rangatiratanga, kāwangatanga, and partnership.

There was a lack of community consultation on this Bill, especially with Māori. This aspect and the Bill itself will be extremely damaging for Māori-Crown relationships.

Introducing this Bill is a Tiriti/Treaty breach.

This Bill is trying to legislate assimilation with Māori as the indigenous peoples here. The report also states that assimilation is discredited as a phenomenon.

Māori will experience significant prejudice due to the breaches and will be carrying the brunt of the created social disorder with the introduction of the Bill and throughout the Select Committee process.

The Tribunal supports its previous finding from the earlier report that this Bill should be abandoned. They then say that if the Government won't abandon it, due its constitutional significance it should be referred to the Tribunal under the Treaty Act (1975).

You can read the recently published Waitangi Tribunal report here.

Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS)

A RIS is a document from the relevant Government Agency that looks at the proposed legislation and analyses its risks, impacts etc. This RIS reflects a lot of the Waitangi Tribunal's report.

For upholding Tiriti/Treaty obligations, maintaining constituional legitimacy, promoting social cohesion, and creating greater clarity the Ministry of Justice believes that the Waitangi Tribunal and Courts are best to continue articulating these principles in line with precedence.

The RIS also says the Bill misinterprets Tiriti, especially article 2.

MOJ mentioned time constraints as a limitation of this RIS. A RIS Quality Assurance panel of MOJ and Ministry of Regulation (Seymour's newly formed Ministry) employees said it did not meet quality assurance criteria though because of the lack of options and time constraints. I think it raises fair points.

You can read the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) here.

Toitū te Tiriti!

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