#tinorangatiratanga

[alliyah237130]

Tiriti o Waitangi:

- I see cursive writing

- Signatures/Names (over 213)

- Ink on parchment paper

- Edges are ripped/burnt and damaged

What did He Whakaputanga-The Declaration of Independence provide for Māori?

The He Whakaputanga brought protection from the King of England (at the time) from other other emerging nation states/countries, Sealers/traders, missionaries and traders. It stated that New Zealand was a country ruled by Maori.

When we consider both Te Tiriti and The Treaty, what are the different understandings held by peoples about what these two artefacts stand for? Name more than one.

Both Te Tiriti and The Treaty were initially presented as an agreed relation of both peace and friendship. To Pakeha, the Treaty stood for new land, new lives, trading and resources. To Maori, Te Tiriti claimed both good and bad perspectives. Some Maori believed their land and livelihood were being stripped away by the missionaries and settlers. Others believed that Te Tiriti would put and end to wars between iwi and make trade between Maori and Pakeha easier and fairer.

Kawanatanga made Maori believe they had authority to make laws with the Pakeha, however, they were mislead to believe this as the term pakeha were referring to was ‘sovereignty’ of the British Crown. This process happened around the 1830’s.

Copyright: Tinorangatiratanga

[grad603-caitlin]

Week 1: Johnson Witehira

Johnson Witehira is a New Zealand artist, designer and researcher of Māori and Pākehā (British descent). Since completing his Masters in Graphic Design (2007) and then Doctorate in Māori visual arts (2013). Witehira's writings have been published in some of the worlds leading academic journals and books including; Visible Language (University of Cincinnati), The Graphic Design Reader (Bloomsbury), AIGA Eye on Design (US), Novum (Munich) and Monocle (London).

"My kaupapa (mission) as both an artist and designer is to bring Māori visual culture back into the lives of all Māori. This is done through careful consideration of how indigenous culture, design and technology intersect."

Beyond design, Johnson maintains a practice as a contemporary Māori artist where his work is centred around tinorangatiratanga (self-determination) and how Māori aspirations might be brought to fruition. In 2012, Johnson's Toi Māori X Times Square project was exhibited across 34 digital billboards in Times Square, New York in the first-ever synchronised display of digital art.

Johnson's work is most prominent in Wellington, New Zealand where three current art projects are on display; Waituhi (2013), Those who live in darkness (2014), and Ngā Kākano: the seeds (2017).

Works from his Ko Aotearoa Tēnei (2012) series are on permanent display in a number of New Zealand Embassies and Consulates (Shanghai Consulate, NZ Embassy in Dublin, NZ High Commission to Canberra and the NZ Consulate Hawaii).

Sources: Johnson Witehira

[da-maori-called-tahu]

Remember whanau we are tangata whenua ,people of the land, dont let the pakeha steal our land with money and other colonial constructs only land can be traded for land

[alwaystochocolate]

If you live in Aotearoa and want to show your support for te Tiriti, your appreciation of this document as foundational for living in respectful relationship with each other, and to protest the govt undermining the Tiriti principles, values, and the tinorangatiratanga of Māori (which they've been doing! In a bunch of ways including the Bill above!).

Please consider joining the hīkoi mō te Tiriti, organised by Toitū te Tiriti.

It is going ahead as planned Nov 10-19 as a nationwide activation, despite David Seymour moving up the timeline for the Treaty Principles Bill being presented (this means the last day of the hīkoi, which ends at Paremata - Parliament - no longer coincides with the day the bill is presented).

Resources:

Kaupapa and where to donate in support of the hīkoi

FB post with each day's schedule to read and share.

Hīkoi organiser quote-focused article for context

Article incl links for more info about the threat that the Treaty Principles Bill presents

Together for Te Tiriti website - lots of resources, info and more actions you can take

I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

[hadzyuka]

@tinorangatiratanga cont. from here!

Tāne Mahuta looked down at his glass and gagged. Somehow, in his alcohol-addled mind, he’d thought that doing a fear factor was a brilliant idea despite the fact that it was not, in fact, a brilliant idea. The liquid(?) in the cup seemed to bubble, the thick milk curdling in the orange juice, while chunks of rotting tomato bobbed about in a lathering of hot sauce. Yet, he was determined not to give up. He hadn’t gone this far just to give up now!

But every time he brought the glass to his lips, he just couldn’t bring himself to drink it. It was as if there was an invisible barrier that physically prevented him from pouring it down his throat. He needed to think fast. With the difficulty he was having with just taking a sip, he knew there was no way he was going to be able to drink it all without puking and losing.

“Y’know…why don’t we go together, on the count of three? Whoever pukes first is the loser!”

Natallia had absolutely no idea how she had gotten in this situation, but here she was, about to chug a vomit inducing mixture of god-knows-what with a personification she didn’t know all too well. She chalked it up to being mildly drunk (a feat enough for her) and decided to go with the flow. 

“Fine, on the count of three.” She agreed, nose, wrinkling at the disgusting concoction. “One...two...”, she paused, almost unwilling for a moment. “...three.” And with that, she pinched her nose and chugged.

[hannahleesplease]

[otwinfilms]

It is a good workout to run away from sport . #🏃‍♂️ #⚽️ #sportyboy #sportmotivation #sweat #sweatface #tinorangatiratanga #kiwi #football #workout #fight #sport #sports #otwinbiernat #otwin #dailyphoto #instadaily #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #me #photooftheweek #picoftheday #instasports #instagood #instaphoto #instafit https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx-U-nRIcY5/?igshid=mbumrqemwa7t

[iamshar]

Getting in on the action 🙌🏼 #waitangiday #waitangiday2019 #waitangi2019 #maori #culture #beproud #standstrong #waitangi #tinorangatiratanga #waitangi #waitangitreatygrounds (at Waitangi Treaty Grounds) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtppslBHRm_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sk737y2d9lvn

[saltyaphaesthetics-blog]

New Zealand Headcanons!

1. Their culture is of utmost importance and they frequent various marae. 2. Satire is their coping mechanism and they really do enjoy poking fun at themself, much to the concern to others. 3. New Zealand is well acquainted with nature and can easily survive for years in the bush. 4. Birds are their all-time favourite animal, but they have a soft-spot for tuatara too. 5. Wellington is their favourite haunt and they can often be found wistfully playing the piano by the harbour.  6. They’re always at least ten years behind global fashion trends. 7. Always wears their pounamu around their neck. 8. New Zealand has a tāmoko on their left shoulder. It began as nothing more than a small sun, but has slowly grown as the years go by, a miniature tale winding down their arm. 9. New Zealand will never stop bickering with Australia ( but they really do care about him, somewhere deep down ).

[blogpauludowiesnerme]

ihumatao ihumatao protest new zealand hamilton by pauludowiesner

[portlandflag]

#Repost @rawhitiroa ・・・ Ahu Tongariki - Rapa Nui #waekaikapua #livingthedream #RawhitiroaPhotography #Moai #RapaNui #EasterIsland #polynesia #Māori #TinoRangatiratanga #worldnomads #maoriflag (at Easter Island)

[lilyjoycemfa]

Reading Holly’s thesis

“Pākehā undergo a process of separating from their original home

culture, its homeliness, and its authority, they also keep separate from

the violent history of their homemaking in the new country. This

separation avoids recognising the violence on which Pākehā being and

belonging to Aotearoa is based, Hence, Pākehā identity being

constituted as an alienated one, rejecting history, cut off from the

homeland.” (Mitcalfe.11)

“Most of us live such fragmented lives and have so many

mini-communities that no one knows us as a whole. The incomplete self

longs for the fragments to be brought together. This can't be done without a

context, a place.

(Lippard. 25)

Te Awa Atua - by Ngahuia Murphy

In my work I use my privilege to create space for Pākehā to learn and unlearn their inherent binds to colonialism and in doing so creating less labour for Māori; who while powerfully resisting colonialism are also wrongly expected to educate Pākehā, on being Māori, which leads to further disregard of whiteness and the threat of Pākehā further appropriating te ao Māori into their making of identity .

-Holly

It is Pākehā who need to do some mahi surrounding our own culture, breaking down the foundation of which uphold hegemonic whiteness, history and identity, and then consider how this relates to te ao Māori.

-Holly

“Native people have had historically to play the role of the

subject/object, the observed, rather than the observer. Rarely have we

been in a position of self representation. Native peoples have always

been the informant, seldom the interrogator or initiator”(McMaster.66)

This process has been an unsettling and emotional process, my most intensive endurance performance yet. In this process, It has become very clear that my artist body, literary voice, political voice, performance body and the woman sitting here writing this are informing each other separately whilst existing here together. As Amelia Jones quotes ,

-holly

“The body is at once the most solid, the most elusive, illusory, concrete, metaphorical, ever-present and ever distant thing-- a site, an instrument, an environment, a singularity and a multiplicity.”. (qtd.Jones.12)

The presence of mauri infers a whakapapa to this place. It is alive; therefore, it has histories, existing relationships, and kinship with places and peoples. Whakapapa extends from and surrounds a thing as interconnecting layers and can be understood as both a genealogy and a geological layering of people, places, and things.(Smitheram and

Joseph.3)

It is my responsibility to further acknowledge that I am not performing Māori culture, I am seeing it, making sure it is acknowledged in my understanding of location, separate from my Pākehā cultural embodiment. I have an awareness of how often Pākehā women culturally commodify Māori cultural practices , I specify women, in reference to Feminist academic Andrea Smith’s writing on how white feminists can appropriate from indigenous women in their attempts to heal from patriarchal structures and violence.

This taking from indigenous women continues a pattern of colonisation of their bodies, histories, land and the enviroment, further hindering their pursuit of tinorangatiratanga. (101 ) 

I seek to reconise the indigenous knowledge that is at home here, that need recognition to support decolonial thought when working in this land.

-Holly

I choose to acknowledge the land as Papatū��nuku, she is Māori. I feel the

tension in our politicised difference and as Alison Jones describes “histories rubbing uncomfortably against each other.’ Jones.28

-Holly

“ accountability to location requires vigilance rather than presumption’.

48

(Wuthnow.189)

Deleuze in the postcolonial On nomads and indigenous politics

[shelbct-blog]

From Flag to Poi

As a team we decided on changing the concept of the Flag to a more traditional Maori object the Poi, as its apart of more in-depth story telling. We hope to create a performance and a visual demonstration to communicate our data-set further,  than just a visual slab broken down into chunks. The Tinorangatiratanga flag was only created in 1989 and our data-set dates back much further. The poi has been broken down to represent different data in the different areas:

THE HEAD SIZE

Demonstrates the Maori population at the same specific time period;

THE STRING LENGTH

Is set to demonstrate the percentage of Te Reo Speakers for the specific matching time period;

THE STRING COLOURS

Will talk about the cultural influence and impacts;

With this new object we are able to tell more with the motion and range of the object, the unusual sizing proportions and surprising short lengths that do not look to match the sizing correctly. The audience will be able to interact with the item a lot more, however, the sacrifice I see is that we aren’t able to print a vocabulary of Maori words over the entirety of it to educate people at the same time. Regardless, this item feels a lot more genuine to us and our data which tells a deeper story.

I believe have we had more time outside of holidays with 2 full weeks or studio sessions, we could have included further data-sets for the weight of each poi, number of string used, length of plat etc; but as uni students we done what we could with our limited number of members and time frame availability.

[lovefrombridget]

Sending love, respect + gratitude home to Aotearoa this Waitangi Day. There is much to be done, but today and every day I honour the stories and lives of those who came before us, those who will follow, and those who are working right now to right historical wrongs, create opportunities to improve, and who help to embrace and celebrate the vast, rich and beautiful history, reo (language) and culture of Aotearoa and it’s people. Big kisses from me. Haumi e, hui e, taiki e ❤️🖤 #missbridgetwalsh #waitangiday #decolonisation #tinorangatiratanga #tereomaori #mana #tetiritiowaitangi #singer #frontwoman #vegan #ravenclaw #INDHE #hustle #blondie #yogaeverydamnday #vegansuperpowers #PMA #gratitude #temperance #marilynmonroe #madonna #electroswing #pixie #girlswithtattoos #aotearoa #vegangirlgang #septumpiercing #keepsmiling #keepgoing #YASQUEEN 💚💚💚 (at Birmingham, United Kingdom)

[inspireif]

Artist depiction of Hone Heke at the #treatyofwaitangi signing with Governor Hobson in the background. Thinking about home today - hope everyone enjoys the day but also reflects on what it really symbolises, how things have played out since and what still needs to be done in terms of genuinely honouring the treaty. Let's not ever let this day become anything like Australia Day 🙄. I believe the artist who created this watercolour is L.C Mitchell & it was painted in the late 1940's, not at the time of the actual signing. #tetiritiowaitangi #honeheke #tinorangatiratanga

[iamshar]

Cruising the markets, competing in challenges and watching amazing performances 👍🏼 Awesome 😊 #waitangiday #waitangiday2019 #waitangi2019 #maori #culture #beproud #standstrong #waitangi #tinorangatiratanga #waitangi #waitangitreatygrounds (at Waitangi Treaty Grounds) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtpUeBMnKqK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ky8nl9ex7wzd