How Māori activism transformed New Zealand's justice and legal systems

In 2023, Atlantic Fellows working in the field of Criminal Justice gathered in Aotearoa to learn how Māori activism has transformed New Zealand's justice and legal systems
Watch our film: Global Justice & Transformation: New Zealand & the Māori Experience. An Atlantic Fellows Convening.
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[@alanbrooke144]

Yep, now we have progressed so that how the law is applied depends on who you are decended from. We used to think it was a bad thing in South Africa and the the southern United States, but now we know better....

[@jasonfox6013]

Best way to solve racism is to stop talking about it plain and simple much love from New Zealand

[@jonathantepairi2664]

Important fact ,,,,as long as there are two or more peoples there will be cultural indifference

[@HHiTTAR]

Did you hear the story of the peaceful Moriori people in the Chatham islands, They were slaughtered, enslaved and cannibalised by Māori in 1835.

[@medit8iv_native970]

Shardup Boi, one tribe did that, not all.of māori ya clown

[@michaelhowell8412]

And what did the English do to the Irish? And the Scottish? & the Welsh? Same thing happened everywhere the Colonizers went

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Shithead!!! Not all Pakeha were involved in that what maoris are continually bitching about but you maoris continually blame all Pakeha for your problems. Get your head out of your ass and go and do a haka.@@medit8iv_native970

[@NZ-ms3vc]

Did you hear what the British did in India & Palestine ?

[@HHiTTAR]

@@NZ-ms3vc no and idc because I'm not talking about them.

[@christhomas8607]

I have just listened to all these speakers from around the different countries. Not once did I hear the God of the of creation was ever mentioned I say this because I've been there as I am maori

[@christhomas8607]

If and I say IF we were to keep the whole TEN COMMANDMENTS written by the finger of God there wouldn't be any lying, stealing, committing adultery and so on . Thats why the God of creation put these laws in place. There wouldn't be any covetousness we would all be happy with what we have. But know greed what's to take place instead. Put God in the picture of everything. I ain't no saint but I'm trying to live by God's principles through King Jesus help.

[@Reihana_]

💤💤💤💤

[@GaryPeters-nv8pj]

​@@Reihana_Are you a pagan worshipper or just a plain garden variety atheist?

[@Reihana_]

@@GaryPeters-nv8pj didn’t ask

[@ducker09]

One country one people . Nothing more separation minded than tribal maori . 😮

[@jonathantepairi2664]

This was not about separation. This was about addressing the wrongs and transgressions of pakeha on our whenua ,,,,for more than 600 years maori tribes had governed themselves within its tribal restraints prior to the arrival of the brittish ,and yes, we had in fighting and tribal engagements but generally co existed alongside each other,,,I don't believe in we as new Zealanders should have one rule for maori and one for everyone else ,,,simply because over the course of time inter race marriage has muddied the waters on what constitutes maori or pakeha my personal opinioni s we need a more equitable governance rather than dual governance or co governance ,,,

[@rogeratkinson7209]

Trauma goes back more then 3 generations. It may go back 12, or more. I see it being reinforced in families, without them even knowing.

[@MZEMZU]

No, low intelligence goes back many generation's. You've got 'victim mentality' and who cares. It's easy to blame everything but yourself.

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Well said. @@MZEMZU

[@roddas26]

Every culture on this Planet has trauma.

[@patricehardynz]

My Great Great x400 generations Grandfather Jesus got slaughtered, therefore I'm traumatized and want reparations. $$$

[@user-nd1hx6pb7i]

Your ancestors did it to your other ancestors, if it didn't happen your daddy would've never met mumma

[@michelletewhata7768]

❤❤❤❤

[@kapacetic]

15:47 powerful moment from the brother here, it is true that this whole initiative is amazing, empowering, and enlightening. I can already see the positives that they will take back to their work environment and communities. Thanks for the upload!

[@michaeledgar6118]

I am so proud of the British people that brought us Western civilisation.

[@donniekula3807]

I am absolutely proud of this. ❤

[@GaryPeters-nv8pj]

Of what? The bell ringing, the guitars, the black shearers singlets, the t-shirts and jeans, the microphones the paint on the carvings etc etc etc?

[@donniekula3807]

​@@GaryPeters-nv8pjyou are so smart 😂 watch again and go figure. I you hope you take away something positive from this😁✌️

[@dawnezone8491]

Kia ora ♥

[@ducker09]

I am maori . Work my arse off. All my bro on demonstration NOT A ONE WORKS . 😮

[@everlynhoughton1230]

Ka rawe to kaupapa, He aha te mea nui ki te ao, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

[@robertmurray2843]

It did?

[@agape777]

Yes, great but where does it get to a point when it stops? That’s the problem, who defines where it stops? It could go on and on and on and actually be counterproductive eventually.

[@tumanako7312]

Totally agree sister's and brothers, we are indeed indiginous peoples of this land of Aotearoa,

[@user-cv3wm8uu3y]

You just got off the boat first.

[@user-nd1hx6pb7i]

No we aint

[@torqingheads]

Quite a history about the Maori - put the Inca's or the Aztecs to shame in degeneration. Outcast from the Cook Islands during the 13th century as weaker primitive Neolithic people by later waves of Polynesians (Maori were from the original wave of primitive Polynesians pushed right out across the Eastern Pacific by successive stronger more advanced groups arriving from the west). They were outcast on rafts and some floated to the North East Coast of NZ driven by the South Equatorial Current and were stranded for 500 years. The weaker were pushed down to the South Island or Chathams etc. So the South Island Maori (had their own language) were the weakest of the weak. They were captured and eaten as 'Slave flesh' by the northern Maori doing raids. (Well they all ate each other - 80% of Maori pre European were dark skinned easily fattened slaves farmed and eaten by a lighter skinned 'Ariki' thin wiry elite royal caste). So it was with some righteousness as well as British cunning that they armed the southern Maori who then with muskets launched a genocidal war on the north.. That plus measles & flu halved the Maori population and removed most of the elite. The British then liberated the slaves and outlawed cannibalism. The northern Maori fought with the British against the south bad west Maori 'rebels'. The Maori sued for peace and a treaty was signed that removed all sovereignty and made them subjects to the English crown where the English would protect them from each other. Land could only be sold to or via the Crown. Maori could live on their reservations with native custom but none did. The treaty of Waitangi is strikingly clear in that the Maori cede sovereignty completely and become citizens of Great Britain - all 3 clauses lock that in. Nothing in today's 'Maori' culture is authentic. The music - all European (Maoris did not have tonal music, the songs are missionary tunes or introduced - Poi dance is from Islands and Stick dance from old Malaya. The carvings and art - all European - Arabesques that was the fashion at the time. Original Maori had limited dash carving and no painting of objects. No written language - all the syntax & grammar plus vowel inflection is European. No technology - some lagoon canoes and wood or stone Neolithic tools. No food sources - like pigs or crops - they left that all behind, all they had was a weak inbred fox (now extinct), some rats and a weak dismal pacific yam. They ate out all the bird-life including 10 species of Moa and 46 other bird species, didn't know how to farm the sea as were island people and so they turned to societal cannibalism. Today - no full blood or half blood left. No genuine tradition and almost all are offspring of Maori slave females sold to white settlers for muskets or food. -So more fake than the 'Sioux' or 'Cherokee' or 'Crow' who had at least retained some genuineness about who they were and their history. -Everything you 'saw or experienced' is fake. A totally convected disneyfied tokenistic set of inventions fueled by a grievance culture of mixed-race imposters fetishing a false past bad history because it pays benefits. 'This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

[@chelxbell]

Incorrect my grandfather is Maori of full blood stated on his birth certificate and he is very much still alive! Sick of seeing misinformation being spread like this.

[@notbeefyproductions7109]

Well said Torqingheads

[@user-cv3wm8uu3y]

@@chelxbell Just because it's on his Birth cert doesn't make him full blooded Maori. I have Scottish, English and Maori Ancestry. it says New Zealand on my birth certificate.

[@chelxbell]

@@user-cv3wm8uu3y it clearly states ‘MAORI OF FULL BLOOD’ if he was more then one ethnicity it would state HALF CASTE!

[@chelxbell]

@@user-cv3wm8uu3y This is legit facts but if you googled how many full blooded Māoris are alive to day - it comes up with 0 which just isnt true

[@amandanelson3901]

I am so proud of our people. Hohou te Rongo!

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Oh yes. How wonderful the maori people are. Let us bless them. Let is hold them up high and show the world how great the are. New headline from the Rotorua Daily Post newspaper: Child, 2, dies after Rotorua driveway accident, family member steals from doctor trying to save child's life As hospital staff tried to save the life of a 2-year-old boy run over in a Rotorua driveway, a family member swiped a doctor's two phones and a bank card and went on a spending spree. The child died a short time later but Melissa Herewini (A MAORI) had already taken the bank card to four stores in Rotorua and bought alcohol, food, petrol, phone credit and cigarettes.

[@amandanelson3901]

​@user-oh4yd5uh4e Wowsers where did that come from? Don't get me wrong, that specific incident that you mentioned is heartbreaking and will be dealt to accordingly but don't put all Māori under that umbrella. Did you forget that it was a white terrorist who killed 52 people in the Christchurch massacre, a "white" mother who premeditated a killing of her children two years ago in Dunedin, and all of the war that's going on is run by rich white people but oh no you choose to select your hate on Māori. Good for you, racism is rife!

[@roddas26]

​@@user-oh4yd5uh4ewe don't talk about that part.

[@chevydoitzKiwiVerrer]

Thanks for sharing. Kia Ora🙌❤🖤🤍

[@esamartin1052]

Tena koe e te whanau Absolutely fabulous inspiringly beautiful ❤ thank you for sharing Mauriora

[@GaryPeters-nv8pj]

And what written language are you using there rangi?

[@ducker09]

May i point out I'm also maori . Only way peace can survive is one vote each . Kind regards 😮

[@user-pg3ll3sb5b]

Maori/Tangata WHENUA vote to keep suppressed. We are minority. We will never win in the house of Esau. Roman structure will never free us from bondage.

[@ducker09]

What on earth are you saying? I guess I've more maori blood than most . With hard work my family have prospered. 😮​@@user-pg3ll3sb5b

[@dobbynp]

how a race of warriors became weak victims

[@michaelhowell8412]

Colonizers need them to be weak so they can push their unpopular agendas

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

Weak victims but good at ram-raids.

[@eugenerewi9076]

Clown 🤡

[@granthardy5844]

Poor victims.

[@hut-2-da-by]

Indigenous peoples have the answers

[@brianjohnhendry4062]

There aren't any in NZ..

[@malcolmhayward4431]

Hope you’re being sarcastic

[@user-pg3ll3sb5b]

Boot the Tauiwi out

[@ducker09]

Really ha ha 😅😅😅😅😮

[@user-pg3ll3sb5b]

The house of Esau will be no more

[@MZEMZU]

When you don't acquire the requisite skills to be successful especially financially, then envy and often anger take over. Then you blame everyone but yourself for your failings.

[@josephl9619]

this

[@cyhermann7147]

Totally agree

[@msimpson2779]

ummm WHY ARE FOREIGNERS SPEAKING???

[@logicalanswer3529]

The number of Māori in jail and prison went up the more they fell for the racist victimhood mentality of the activists.

[@JG-us9lu]

What Nonsense completly untrue.

[@eugenerewi9076]

What would you know

[@JG-us9lu]

@@eugenerewi9076 Most likely a LOT more than you.

[@tumanako7312]

Negativity is without merit without dialogue, so why talk s, it, share your thoughts or be quite

[@JG-us9lu]

@@tumanako7312 We are in 2024. How's that?

[@v1005970]

Proud to be maori But a negative scale here... Our government wants to basically erase us..... and blame the 3 headed taniwha... Everything throughout the Years maori have fought for is just about gone...

[@notbeefyproductions7109]

and what have the maoris fought for? and why does the government want to erase maori"?

[@user-nd1hx6pb7i]

Bro come on now get out from under the bed and stop listening to the gremlins under there

[@markjinkinson3025]

Bullshit