A link to their Givealittle if interested. Kia Ora. #TeMatatini #Māori #Indigedon #Aotearoa #Indigenous #IndigenousMutualAid #MutualAid
Te Matatini: Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao address the Lake Rotokākahi controversy #TeMatatini #Māori #Indigedon #Aotearoa #Indigenous
Each time a pedestrian crossing is made a little different it adds to the sense of the place.
Each Māori stop/go, each rainbow, each Katherine Mansfield becomes a part of the greater quirkyness and a sense what it is to 'be Wellington'.
More please 
He made the best album of 2024 – but shh, don’t tell him that.
“I’m just some dickhead in a garage,” says Mokotron’s Tiopira McDowell, who couldn't be further from the truth. #Mokotron #IndgMusicClub #Māori #Indigedon #Music
https://boilerroom.substack.com/p/he-made-the-best-album-of-2024-but
"You can open up a Facebook comments section and read, 'Nobody cares about this dead culture, this dead language outside of this country, blah, blah, blah.' And then [we] go play Spain and have 15,000 people who don't speak English singing in Māori and you can be like, 'Well, that's not true at all.'" #Māori #Metal #Music #Indigedon #IndgMusicClub
Alien Weaponry: "You get that same kind of whakawhanaungatanga [belonging] in the metal community as you do growing up Māori." #Māori #Metal #Music #Indigedon #IndgMusicClub
New Zealand mountain gets same legal rights as a person
A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations.
"We must acknowledge the hurt that has been caused by past wrongs, so we can look to the future to support iwi[a #Māori tribe] to realise their own aspirations and opportunities," Paul Goldsmith, the government minister responsible for the negotiations, said.
#NewZealand
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czep8gg5lx4o
The US public news show, #PBSNewsHour, had a good piece today on the current government of Aotearoa-NZ's attempts this year to roll back Māori rights, and the massive protests in opposition. It's good to see this story being covered in some depth internationally.
No wonder people are angry.
#nz #government #maori #indigenous
“Since coming to power in 2023, they (right-wing NZ govt) have dismantled a broad range of Māori initiatives, from the Māori Health Authority to school language programs.
#humanrights
#rights
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/maori-protests-new-zealand-treaty-waitangi/104597346?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
But the most consequential reform is being championed by ACT leader David Seymour, who wants to redefine the interpretation of New Zealand's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi).”
https://youtu.be/V188_OKQ2Jo?si=_t5EpIvIXoPH9J1t
Petition to introduce Tino Rangatiratanga flag into emoji. This was mentioned on #rnz this morning but for some reason they didn't link to the actual petition. https://www.change.org/p/implement-a-māori-flag-emoji #maori #nz
@dbattistella@mstdn.ca"We are the kingmakers, we are the sovereign people of this land and the world is watching us!
All #Indigenous people are relying on us."
NZ MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, who was suspended for ripping up a controversial bill to reinterpret the 184-year-old founding treaty between #Māori and the crown, and leading a #haka in parliament.
@Gigi@kolektiva.socialGreat photo floating around* showing just how large the demonstration was outside the New Zealand Parliament over white people maliciously attempting to reinterpret an almost 200-year-old treaty in their own favour and removing even more rights from Maori.
Oh, I found an article from Al Jazeera estimating 42,000 people in attendance.
Oh there we go. Fucking Libertarians being racist as usual.
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An estimated 42,000 people demonstrated on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to reject the Treaty Principles Bill, which was introduced earlier this month by the libertarian ACT New Zealand party.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/19/tens-of-thousands-protest-new-zealand-maori-rights-bill
#NewZealand #Maori #IndigenousRights #LandBack #Wypipoling #WhiteNonsense
*(I will tineye it again later to see if I can find the source as it found nothing yet)
@tagesschau Der Artikel wäre besser gewesen, wenn er auch erklärt, welche Änderungen dieser Antrag vorsieht und welche Auswirkungen er auf die #Maori hätte.
Die Wikipedia-Zusammenfassung ist schon mal interessant, weil es zuerst harmlos klingt, aber dann die Gerichtsurteile, Gesetze und Schadensersatzregelungen seit 1975 stark abschwächt:
Zehntausende Menschen demonstrieren für Maori-Rechte in Neuseeland
Zehntausende Menschen haben sich in der neuseeländischen Hauptstadt Wellington zu Protesten versammelt. Sie fürchten, dass die indigenen Maori mit einem neuen Gesetz lange bestehende Rechte verlieren könnten.
42,000 crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of #Māori rights
#NewZealand
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196056/new-zealand-maori-indigenous
Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.
Appendix: One name by which Native Hawai'ians call themselves is Kānaka Maoli. Those of you with some awareness of East Asian languages might notice that the second word there is quite similar Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. That's not a coïncidence. Hawai'ians and Māori descend from the same ancestral population, and the same word underwent a common mutation as the populations diverged.
And the Māori traditional calendar is quite similar to the Hawaiian.
Tens of thousands to converge on NZ parliament as march to protest controversial Māori rights bill reaches capital
Up to 50,000 expected to take part in the last stage of the nine-day protest which began last week in opposition to the Treaty of Waitangi bill
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/tens-of-thousands-to-converge-on-nz-parliament-as-march-to-protest-controversial-maori-rights-bill-reaches-capital
#News #Aotearoa #newzealand #Treaty #Waitangi #Maori
@Fanua@mas.toMāori: Hīkoi mō te Tiriti protest march to parliament going on right now in downtown Wellington, against the Treaty Principles Bill being considered , which infringes on Māori rights as stated in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty of 1840 signed between Māori and the Crown.
#HīkoiMōTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #WhakaRoundFindOut #Hīkoi #TangataWhenua #ToitūTeTiriti #Māori #Maori #Aotearoa #Indigenous #NZpol #TreatyPrinciplesBill #decolonize
