How New Zealand Seeks to Right Its Colonial Wrongs

[@ghostnoodle9721]

America: Imma pretend I didn't see this

[@animeee4380]

Australia also but they keep talking about human rights

[@SiliconBong]

That video description needs some clearing up; ' ..97% of their land through trickery and violence' . . . where are the examples of men just getting along and getting stuff done? The maori language was transcribed for the first time, medicines were exchanged, herbs and roots were added to a common diet. Women were given the vote before the turn of that century, clothing was traded as well as tools and weapons. . . "People at the ends of the earth have always found a little something to get them sideways, just to cope ..." Billy Connelly

[@jamesstowers1406]

@@animeee4380 Australia literally still has segregation they have no place to criticize us on human rights

[@jamesstowers1406]

@@SiliconBong as a kiwi that's the narrative everyones taught the what would be the point of a video like that? nothing in the video untrue the majority of pakeha are happy believing the bs narrative white people came to land and Maori offer the entire country for a couple blankets

[@SiliconBong]

@@jamesstowers1406 Hold on tiger, i'm not ignoring the land wars and shitawful attitudes that the social studies textbooks politely ignore, i'm just saying it wasn't always vietnam with muskets.

[@baatile]

This is the story of all indigenous populations of colour around the world. I’m South African and this is our story too.

[@ProdSKOLR]

Unite

[@roy_for_real2674]

And of less color often too.

[@davidatkinson5858]

Apart from that there was no South Africa before the Europeans made it economically viable?What happened to the sani indigenous population?

[@emersontaylor8218]

@@davidatkinson5858 and here i find another crazy, racist statement from you in the same thread. Do you actually believe this stuff?

[@davidatkinson5858]

@@emersontaylor8218 so can you point out the "crazy" and "racist" parts of my comment?

[@jimbrutan_senior]

"Europeans Europeans" "What wrong did humanity do to you!?!" "What wrong did the native people of the world do to you!?!"

[@zenmkultra]

Europeans are also the native people of the world. War and conquest has been a part of human history since the beginning. Everyone participated in it, some just got the better of themselves and won

[@janusmendiola3328]

Got "better" at WAR, as in continuing War today in both murderings with collateral damage, till this day! @@zenmkultra

[@murnyang8381]

@@zenmkultra shut up denial is a part of being a unchecked monster

[@1112-g1x]

if the brits didnt turn up in nz it would still be an underdeveloped bck water like the rest of the pacific. Hawaii is a pretty prosperous place too... i wonder y?

[@stewatparkpark2933]

Natural evolution determined that European people had advance far ahead of the rest of the world in technology and they used this advantage to improve their situation . Just evolution when you boil it all down .

[@paultritschler1595]

As an proud Irish man I respect your struggle against the crown

[@nukerzerothefirst3417]

your a clo9wn pal do you live in NZ

[@tekohaatawhai3697]

Cheers friend I'm Irish and Māori so you can probably guess how much I dislike the crown

[@cerveauy8782]

@@tekohaatawhai3697 I'm half-Indian & we dislike the crown too! BTW I love the Maori HAKA! It's my favorite thing since I discovered it ❤️🕉️

[@cascade3769]

@@tekohaatawhai3697 Hahaha you got owned.

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@cascade3769 ahh posted today a urgent letter too prime minister- chris Luxon , not too brown- nose in 2024

[@junior1857]

They should have mentioned the 'He Whakaputanga' which is the constitution of the country made 5 years before the treaty of Waitangi

[@jamesdeancav]

As long as iwi operate as companies and trusts the Crown keeps durastriction over Maori sovereignty by making hapu a corporate fiction subject to the company's and trusts act, therefore ceeding Maori independence becomes impossible and land can't be lived on because the trust is more concerned about solvency within the Crown rather than sovereignty within Maori

[@junior1857]

@@jamesdeancav that I know already but at least someone else might read your comment and learn something new for themselves

[@vailima49aston99]

As a Samoan born and raised in aotearoa my heart goes out to my Polynesian Maori family for their fight for their land! Samoa also went through battles with the crown and it makes me think what if Samoa was the size of New Zealand or Australia?

[@davidatkinson5858]

Err so exactly how big do you think England is?🤔......in the UK, generally, there is a certain amount of respectful admiration for the Maori ,Samoan and Polynesian cultures ,that stems from their adherence to the warrior code societies they espoused. Kind of like the recognition of a kindred spirit. So it's slightly surprising to find the amount of cultural karens complaining to the manager when they got a watered down serving of what they were happily dishing out to the world before the British arrived. Is the law of conquest only virtuous when it served up your victories?...it's pretty weak to abandon the bedrock of your own cultural convictions when they don't serve your advantage imo. And let's be honest,the British empire was admittedly harsh, avaricious, invasive and when necessary brutally tyrannical, until they're compared with every single contemporary and preceding empire in human history, it's worth remembering that the British method was infinitely less extreme than the more genocidey, bloodthirsty, decapitatey and sometimes even eaty forms of colonialism widely practiced at the time. Which is evinced in the fact that their cultures still exist today in relatively large populations....as the Europeans say " live by the sword,die by the sword " .....I believe the colloquial term is " don't hate the playa....etc "?

[@vailima49aston99]

@@davidatkinson5858 stop pointing the finger elsewhere this is about the British colony

[@cascade3769]

@@vailima49aston99 England was colonised by the Romans, the Vikings and the Normans. They were also bombed to smithereens by the Germans. Guess what?? They don't whine about it every day and get on with life. Fancy that !

[@kneeow]

😂😂 says the person who's family went to New Zealand from another country and acquired land. you can hand it back too, lead by example 😂😂

[@kelz5339]

Thank you our Samoan whanaunga for your support ànd acknowledgement of our grievances from our past and pray the day colonial ideals will extinguish and our way of life shall flourish and restore harmony back to the Earth

[@andro7862]

Maori culture is fascinating, without it NZ is just a copy of Britain sans the history. Much support to our Maori friends from Croatia, brothers from a far away land.

[@JORDIIMusic]

​@Banned 6 Times And you think cars and alcohol are a positive contribution to society? Cars that emit harmful fossil fuels that are destroying our planet and alcohol which is the leading cause of many social and economic ills? Maybe you need to read what the first Europeans wrote about the Maori people. The most physically aesthetic and healthy people they had seen.

[@megamanx466]

@@JORDIIMusic They're just trying to be 'Banned 7 Times'. We should help them! 😉

[@sunnya4310]

@Banned 6 Times Here comes the another unintelligent racist to spill the same regurgitated talking point. What use is a wheel, when New Zealand was not home to any large terrestrial mammals prior to the arrival of the Europeans?

[@charnz3495]

and its amazing how the ‘white man’ still feels some right to speak for indigenous Māori 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@roryhebberd9766]

@@charnz3495 kiwi here. That's basically it just respect and listen. As a white NZer basically it's in our own best interest to raise the Maori standard of living. There's various ways of doing that. We're not perfect it's going to take generations.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

I’m glad that New Zealand recognised 35 years ago the importance of reparations to the Maori nation. I’m sure if you were white and were occupied by a “foreign” nation you would want exactly the same. It’s a shame Australia, Canada and America hasn’t done the same!

[@rosbaldiston7979]

They are not getting reparations and there was never a Maori nation.

[@cd8190]

@@rosbaldiston7979 There may not have been a single nation but there were many Māori Iwi that can be considered as nations, and they are receiving some reparations although the amounts are minimal. White New Zealanders should be ashamed in their attempts to diminish the actions of their ancestors and the harm they caused tangata whenua. and the continuing harm that is ongoing through racist policies that target Māori unfairly.

[@cd8190]

@George Orwell I find it interesting that you label me a victim seeking to blame others for my situation. I think this merely highlights denial on your part that injustice and harm have been and are ongoing significant issues for Māori and other groups of people. Injustice and harm can be addressed and repaired but only by those groups who perpetrate these situations and requires these groups to relinquish their protected advantages over others. This can be a hard process and often instead of taking these steps many within these dominant groups label the 'outsiders' or 'others' as self-proclaimed victims. This downgrades their level of humanity and allows those protecting their own status to justify the unjustifiable while re-enforcing the original injustice and harm by creating and replicating the situation with new types of injustice and harm. As for me, as a member of the dominant group, i.e, a White New Zealander I do not need someone to blame for my situation. Instead, I am very aware of the injustice and harm in New Zealand society that particularly impacts Māori and I wish to acknowledge that situation in an attempt to change the dynamics of New Zealand society to right the injustice and harm and create an equitable society both in the present and the future.

[@cd8190]

@George Orwell Certain groups have greater capacity than others to cause harm. When a group dominates the government, the economy, the education system, the judicial system, they have a greater capacity to create a society that reflects their cultural, social, religious moral, and economic values to the exclusion of all others. This benefits their members as they already know how to navigate these values, while other groups in the society may be less able to. This creates a societal structure that creates barriers for others while normalising these expectations and making them appear universal to all while they still exclude all put the dominant group. Through this process biases both implicit and otherwise from dominant groups members in positions of power reinforce this division and further marginalise those who are not members of the dominant group. This becomes a self perpetuating cycle and maintains the hegemony of the dominant group over all other groups. History shows us more obvious examples such as the slavery of African Americans, the economic, cultural, and political oppression of women, the exclusion, marginalisation, and criminalisation of the LGBTQI community, are a few examples. These three groups still face societal, political, and economic discrimination today, although this occurs through a less visible framework than in the past and is obscured by the development and promotion of an equality framework. Equality denotes that everyone can achieve things in a society as there is no bar on anyone achieving for instance a PhD, a political office, or the right to marry. This equality framework completely ignores any structural barrier that restricts members of marginalised groups achieving this equality. This is why equity is important, equity recognises structural barriers and takes them into account, things like university student allowances for children from poorer families, or affordable government funded childcare for working mothers. or government financial support for those with medical issues that prevent them working, or fully funded government health care so no citizen dies from a curable medical condition So far from being dangerous equity is the key component to creating a fairer more inclusive society that creates a shared solidarity amongst those who comprise its members and fosters understanding, acceptance, and respect. Greater equity will lower poverty, increase wellbeing, and produce a stable, safe, and strong society/

[@cd8190]

@George Orwell ​ @George Orwell The version of communism practised in large areas of the world was not in reality a true version of communism, it can more correctly be defined as a totalitarian version of socialism with a ruling elite class that attempted to control and subjugate the masses. The current neo-liberal model of capitalism is in some respects similar to totalitarian socialism, in that a wealthy elite subjugate and control the masses using disinformation, and misinformation, and by also lowering wages to poverty levels with a welfare safenet well below poverty levels in order to ensure people need to undertake precarious employment with little rights, earning wages that don not cover housing, food, and other living expenses. This requires individuals to undertake second and even third jobs. This is why equity is necessary to restore living standards for the poorest and to mitigate the corporate greed of the executive class. As for your assertion that equity is dangerous, I find that a little perplexing. If we examine the five nations most renowned for this style of approach we find Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. They all are amongst the nations with the highest populations levels of wellbeing and happiness, they also have amongst the longest life expectancy, they have much lower levels of inequality than most nations,They have high employment levels, high social welfare benefits, they have affordable health care and education, including university, they are also amongst the easiest nations in the world to create and operate a business. On all these measures they are ahead of neo-[liberal capitalist nations such the USA. No one in these nations would consider themselves as communist states, nor would they use the word dangerous to describe their social and economic system as communist. From my perspective the most daner and structural violence comes from allowing entrenched vales and norms of dominant groups that advantage those groups at the expense of all others, and measure value solely through the accumulation of wealth, while undervaluing fairness and respect for all human beings regardless of their starting position in the social hierarchy and examine all the non-monetary value that a great deal of poor and working-class individuals create in our society.

[@commisioned8277]

She said "the British misinterpreted", which presumes genuine error. They interpreted for their own purposes, the premise is not the same.

[@lukawolfgram9511]

@Bogdanmeoff Agreed, I'm Māori myself and have studied the treaty and process of British colonization extensively. You can't make a factual assertion that the British purposefully interpreted the treaty for their own purposes. While you could make an informed guess, based-off economic and social changes the British were already trying to make prior to the signing of the treaty, that misinterpreting the treaty was in their best interest, but at the end of the day you can't read the minds of men from 180 years ago. I think people get too wrapped up in focusing on intentions when talking about colonization when in reality how the treaty came about was extremely flawed, regardless of intentions, and that's what Māori activists should stay focused on.

[@vangcruz4442]

These are the same people that go around the world and yelling HUMAN RIGHTS.

[@SamYoungnz]

Yes, but we are doing something about it. It is called learning ❤

[@vangcruz4442]

@@SamYoungnz learning......meaning to be more brutal? How many Generations people have to suffer in the name of learning to be more BRUTAL? You have conquered most countries on earth, pillaged all their treasures, use them as slaves, and now still learning? I hope that one day someone will use you as a learning tool.

[@chrisdovrik2894]

NZ people in general are hypocrites and are closet racists.

[@vangcruz4442]

@@chrisdovrik2894 Yes, if your people were treat as bad as the NZ, you would be worst then the NZ people.

[@TheRaju991]

Whenever you see an inequality issue brought to light. Britain is always at the head of it.

[@kelanakelana7998]

What? New zeelanders native after the treaty were treated equali, and ever heard of belgium congo or manifest destiny?

[@TheRaju991]

@@kelanakelana7998 so discount this whole thing they did in the past?

[@pissiole5654]

what sort of civilization do you think maoris had before the british got there? they had tribes, the fought each other, they cut of heads as trophies. Name a country and i can almost guarentee you if we go back far enough we'll find one group slaughtering and conquering their neighbours in order to take their stuff. stop being willfully ignorant and trying to paint half a picture

[@TheRaju991]

@@pissiole5654 "far enough"

[@olly6857]

@@TheRaju991 Do you continue to blame people who had nothing to do with it?

[@Julian-qc9wj]

Me, a Canadian: sweats nervously

[@merc7paul]

@@Islandwaterjet yeah..... Lol

[@Kyle-kp6oy]

@@Islandwaterjet False.

[@TheScondComming]

indeed, Europe is very overpopulated, people literally live on top of each other. We need to be aloud to follow their culture that is to say live of off nature. We have a right to expand to.

[@miaa7097]

@@Islandwaterjet you clearly don't acknowledge the pain settlers caused indigenous people

[@qiaowang7147]

It would be nice if Canada can emulate what the New Zealand is doing for their indigenous people Maori.

[@fritzdeuces]

👏👏👏Kudos to New Zealanders for protesting against the South African Rugby team. It's small acts like that that move the needle.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Its things like that that make New Zealanders look like clowns. Protesting Rugby?? Football hooligans arent equitable people

[@ptys.]

Sometimes you need to see stories from an outsiders perspective to truly understand them. Great piece, more work to do.

[@PHlophe]

because local Pakehas would never be honest about it. plain simple

[@CHewittMedia]

Are you on board with the climate change agenda?

[@elizabethbradley4301]

@@PHlophe you're ignorant

[@cascade3769]

@@PHlophe When will Ngapuhi apologise for their atrocities?

[@GoldCoast85]

And sometimes things are BS and one sided

[@yakigesher-zion7289]

Britain should be prosecuted in international court and forced to give reparations and tribute to all the indigenous peoples they affected

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Ever heard of victors paying the vanquished ?.

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Plus who's gonna enforce it ?

[@yakigesher-zion7289]

@@alexanderphilip1809 the International Criminal Court…

[@rosbaldiston7979]

Turkey should pay reparations to Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, and other Balkan nations. Mongolia should pay reparations to half of Asia. Moroccans & Algerians should pay reparations to Spain. Germany should pay reparations to Italy for the sack of Rome. Russia should pay reparations to Poland, Germany, Ukraine, etc. Japan should pay reparations to the Koreas, China, the Pacific, and more.

[@jackgibbons6013]

How far back are we counting? Do you include the multiple waves of colonisation and conquest that happened on the British isles, should the French pay the British? The scandaniavins?

[@RobertoCarlosM]

Well done NZ for working towards amending the mistakes of the past. Perhaps a few other countries can follow suit.

[@PHlophe]

Bob, its talk but zero actions . its the current BLM that forced them into recognizing for a minute. but they are never going to make a change.

[@RobertoCarlosM]

@@PHlophe Seems that they started well before BLM was even a thing

[@maori_Mcsouljah]

@@PHlophe u have no clue what u on about mate

[@PHlophe]

@@maori_Mcsouljah and you have Souljah as a part of your sobriquet. Black americans influence Maoris .

[@FAMEROB]

if you go for a governemnt or health job and a maori is also competing for it but he/she isnt as qualified, they Maori gets the job, its social engineering, and if you think its ok theres something wrong with you

[@QuietJugung]

Hakka party mocking Maori culture went on until the 80's.

[@PHlophe]

well into the 2000s even , its only last decade that they took a cultural feature and hyped it up

[@edwardheaney3641]

And how many people make fun of the waltz, or the polka?

[@PHlophe]

Eduardo, is no ballroom dance, sweety .

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@edwardheaney3641 Irish jokes are appceted but not cannibal jokes.

[@Digmen1]

The natives had been used to selling goods to the Europeans for 30 years or more. So they knew exactly what selling meant

[@jessenyascencio6102]

The fact that the Maori and Kanaka Maoli suffered the same trauma from being colonized is just heartbreaking. ‘Eha koʻu naʻau...My heart is sore💔😭

[@cascade3769]

Harden up !

[@Johanna-iu6ly]

​@@cascade3769far cough

[@Lukejb2Butterworth]

Who are Kanaka Maoli ??? Are they New Caledonian - Kanaks ???

[@shauntempley9757]

They are known to Europeans as Hawaiians.@@Lukejb2Butterworth

[@oyaami1874]

Notice how Maoris, Native Americans and Aborigines become whiter as settlements fought for become available.

[@priehowell8825]

Yes

[@marshhen]

One of the challenges we face in Canada is that there are so many First Nations as well as Inuit peoples. So this complexity means the status quo just keeps limping along.

[@interviewcrackersganesha7686]

300 bodies dead under school in Canda

[@comradecetacean1927]

@@interviewcrackersganesha7686 The white man's excuse: but we civilized them! Dogs of the Inuit were slaughtered just like the bisons, children of natives were taken away from their parents to make them "civilized", dreadlocks were cut off, effectively putting a leash on the neck. I wonder if these 300 buried children were also part of the "civilization" process.

[@SamYoungnz]

Kia ora MarshHen, there were more than 500 chiefs who signed Te Tiriti O Waitangi (so 500 tribes).

[@kanakamakapalua6097]

I think all the Aboriginal Amerikans originated from the Inuits as they were the first of the Mongolians to settled Amerika.

[@GueyDuck13]

Name another country that has done a better job with native rights than New Zealand because we're still working on it in New Zealand.

[@am7016]

It’s not your land man, your people stole that land man

[@JORDIIMusic]

Always room for improvement! But yes, compared with other countries where indigenous people were subjugated and their lands confiscated (ie the USA, Canada, Australia, the whole of South and Central America), New Zealand is a beacon of hope for indigenous rights around the world.

[@am7016]

@@JORDIIMusic what talking about, you stole other people’s lands and have the audacity talk about rights,

[@arthedainedain9846]

@@am7016 it's their land, your people were to weak and incapacitated to hold it. That's how it works, loser. Don't think for a second you wouldn't love to take land, if you had the strength for it, which you don't.

[@makearunat]

@@arthedainedain9846 Classy

[@StGammon77]

This narrative is erroneous and why we have a racial crisis in NZ right now, the wrongs have been committed by rebel tribalist Maori from the start and still are people around the world have no clue what is happening here.

[@RaJeshSinGh-rs8nb]

Its just astonishing to imagine how just a single country dismantled the balance of many other countries that would reflect for centuries.

[@PHlophe]

that country alone is the source of global warming

[@cascade3769]

@@PHlophe China?

[@cascade3769]

RaJesh SinGh Where would India be without cricket?

[@KiriWest]

A single people, a tiny minority of indigenous people.

[@Jannfndnanakid]

the only crime was that they didnt bring civility and order to the isles quickly enough. maybe we could have avoided all the intertribal massacres and the racial extinction of moriori

[@manamaori100]

Bring Civility? Millions of people died either through introduced diseases or they were massacred at the hands of the British, and by the way the Moriori are a tribe of Māori who are still alive and well today, and as for stopping the intertribal massacres go and read about the atrocities committed in other countries they colonised. In North Australia early settlers once buried aboriginal babies up to their necks and had competitions to see who could kick their heads off. Indigenous peoples were better off without them.

[@MrAirnike8]

You pale one have world wars and brought, radiation to those wars.

[@jirhoud]

lots of hate towards māori in these comments. lots of whataboutisms. lots of england wasn’t the first. …people in *police, politics, healthcare, education, banking, retail and many others jobs all harbour the same attitude, and that’s why aotearoa will not be able to move forward without struggle. land was stolen, culture was crushed. responsibility is with the crown, the church and the new zealand government. aotearoa is māori lands. māori aren’t calling for genocide, nor are they trying to crush english culture, they’re asking to survive and have a thriving culture on their lands, *lands that were stolen and now need to be shared in a way that respects the te reo treaty.

[@JG-us9lu]

This completly inaccurate. Balme for their plight is entirley their own fault. they choose to commit the crimes, they choose to KFC and Macdonalds. This a completly wrong histrorically. The word Aotearoa was invented by a white fictional writer. They were slaughtering each other and dying from TB. this is junk.

[@antmanatthemoment7233]

11:00: while we're on the subject of Ngai Tahu, why don't they ask for the land around Nelson back from from the Ngati Toa, that Te Rauparaha and his men took from them in the 1820s for similar reasons as to why Europeans took it.

[@navajoauckland6003]

People forget that my ancestors were only defending their homes, land and people against colonists.

[@FAMEROB]

defending against a civilised society which many do to this day, they are called terrorists

[@Jessie-nl8kn]

It will only be sorted when the Crown leaves , laws are re written . Maori do not own or have additional rights over the land . It's Gods Land .

[@esgee3829]

no country has done more in the last 50 years to recognize and elevate indigenous culture and contemporary people than nz; not to say it's perfect or enough. but you see it from the government and you see and feel it from nearly never new zealander on the ground. as an outsider that's manifestly obvious.

[@LFRAS94]

agreed, its nowhere near perfect. For some people also you will never satisfy. But i am proud Maori/European Kiwi and Maori is what makesNZ unique

[@marcusty6957]

Well said! Population is just under 5million. And for that we are more better as one “kiwis” than being Ununited. Seeing where the world is at the moment we as kiwis want to learn to learn Te reo to make us uniquely different to the rest of the world! Our offical languages is, English, Te reo Maori and the New Zealand sign language and we are proud of this!

[@pemonline3395]

That doesn't mean much when you consider the crimes committed against indigenous populations over the years. And that's because they couldn't, otherwise they would have.

[@raymondgough6070]

@@pemonline3395 What would you propose NZ should do then, considering you seem to find the current government actions woefully inadequate?

[@tFighterPilot]

They could get back to England and give the natives the lands that they stole from them.

[@TheHippie60]

Hmmm 🤔 sound about white. Hawai’i has the same issue. Thousands of natives are being displaced and no living wage. USA is selling off native land to the rich. They also tried to get rid of the Hawaiian language and did over throw the Queen Liliʻuokalani. Please do a video on the Hawaiian Kingdom and Democratic Party of Hawaii that tried to save Hawaii from Dole taking over

[@davidomego]

Vox did a documentary, I think yesterday the day before yesterday, on Hawaii

[@letspetpuppies]

boycott Dole

[@TheHippie60]

@Hernando Malinche Obviously you’re sensitive to the truth. Please read up on the history and educated yourself before commenting. Natives don’t sell their land the u.s sells it off 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@TheHippie60]

May I also add: Americans banned the Hula, Hawaiian language, art and healing practices & stole land. All this in order for a pineapple colonizer and sugar cane missionaries can profit off the land and use people on the plantation. Dole also became governor. Tale as old as time!

[@TheHippie60]

@Hernando Malinche Ignorance is Bliss. I sympathize with your brain wash and deflated ego. You can’t argue with stupidity when truth and facts are being classified as “hip” The annexation of Hawai’i was lobbied by dole and dozens of other white counter parts. We didn’t need America, they needed HAWAI’I Once again go back to the books and documents to educate yourself. Thank you from your fellow Hawaiian

[@yellowsnake1048]

Well this wasn’t biased and twisted at all 😂😂

[@meykarangagara9216]

I am going to take a different approach at this colonization and say that the British crown and Pakeha settlers as well as Maori, are very lucky to have each other. And, because some of you go back to our cheifs and tribes of confederate to paramount/Tino Rangatiratanga, and some of us Maori, go back to the royal blue blood and some of us, have grandfathers that were apart of the Knights of the royal round table.

[@MasterChief37]

You’re right about that, without colonisation NZ wouldn’t be the developed country it is today, it would be another impoverished third world nation like the rest of Polynesia.

[@tahanaparker2660]

Can't read other reply ???

[@Digmen1]

The were not called Maori, when the Europeans. And they sold their land wilingly, Maori are in jail by a high percentage due to the fact that commit crime 7 times more than Europeans and other races in NZ. It was no called Aoteoroa when the Europeans arrived. They gave it the name if New Zealand and New Munster.

[@seanodwyer4322]

Dig- it mean more courage too not become victims off them

[@bodybalanceU2]

boo hoo hoo did a maori upset you for to be so pathetic and whining

[@andrewleask6760]

Maori moriori were were not the first people to settle in new zealand . Waitaha and patupeiarehe were here long before maori this vidio is more government propaganda

[@jajalshadow]

as a singaporean this is heartwarming. ultimately its for nzealanders to decide

[@PHlophe]

Aziz , ultimately its Maori's perspective that matters.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

@@PHlophe What about Maori now has anything to do with Maori then?? If we play it that way are they all going to jail for their people breach the treaty since day 1????

[@PHlophe]

@@jimijamesjowitt wasn't the country full of exiled convicts anyway , and then y'all found people who were minding their business.

[@cerveauy8782]

@@jimijamesjowitt show some humanity & empathy. Why are you being so salty? Accept the wrongs today for building a better future tomorrow.

[@OverlordViciousKiwi]

He Whakaputanga 1835 is our Declaration of Independence

[@terrynicol4548]

What was achieved in those 5 years before Te Tiriti? What progress did the country make? What frameworks and infrastructure were put in place?

[@OverlordViciousKiwi]

@@terrynicol4548 what was achieved 600 years before that.

[@analipproofnz8298]

I'm here because in our mental health course we tend to learn about Maori Colonization. Very interesting

[@teawaruaedwards274]

Do you have a disproportionate amount of patients that are Maori.??

[@brentsaddress]

I'll wager it is more indoctrination than education.

[@fritzdeuces]

14:42 "the right for Maori to rule themselves" 🎯🎯 That's key.

[@kenloomes2941]

Ok so how you going to sort out who's Maori and who's Not most are mixed blood and even some who have mixed blood don't want to be ruled by there own rules, so cant see that working.

[@Battleneter]

You will note the white women referring to herself as Maori at 1 minute in is no where NEAR 50% Maori, she insults her other ancestor by cherry picking like this, but she is after $$$ so who cares I guess. She also forgot to mention Maori murdering themselves and boiling the heads of their enemies, funny that!

[@GueyDuck13]

@@kenloomes2941 When filling out any documents asking for ethnicity if you put Maori you need to put down Iwi (tribe), your river and mountain you are born to. Also the 1 drop rule.

[@fritzdeuces]

@@kenloomes2941 Anyone with Maori ancestors.

[@2natree854]

Right here !@@fritzdeuces

[@davidfinley7766]

"What Did The Romans Ever Do For Us.........?"

[@boogeh3630]

The Maori are not indigenous, they are colonizers who wiped out the original tribes of the islands.

[@bodybalanceU2]

stop with your misinformation - they are the original inhabitants of nz whether you like it or not

[@boogeh3630]

@@bodybalanceU2 Unfortunately for you, History isn't interested in your delusions.

[@Trilogy...]

Gosh we’ve been through some teko & we’re still full of ❤ we’re beautiful healers, we’ll be fine

[@mokhwibitxwane]

Few countries have corrected colonial sin, but New Zealand is by far done the most. This is praiseworthy

[@ProdSKOLR]

Tell that to all the native Maori in prison

[@mokhwibitxwane]

@@ProdSKOLR as I said, far better than most. I never said they did enough.

[@cascade3769]

@@ProdSKOLR The halfcasts you mean?

[@renaetamati]

@@cascade3769 nah they mean native you dunce

[@cypress2212]

It's time wake up great spirits!!!

[@Digmen1]

The thing with trying to settle any colonial wrongs with Maori, is that its never ending. They keep coming back fro more. They with 17% or less of the New Zealand population want to control the whole country through what they are now calling Co-Goverance. Any one with even a 16th or less of maori blood can claim to be or feel maori.

[@whointhewhat]

Ao indigenous people never colonized each other’s rivaling tribes etc and were complete saints?

[@mellow5606]

Why isn't the musket wars mentioned and the French?? Utu transformed Aotearoa during 30 years of Iwi conflict and many many died. This must of had been a part of signing the treaty? The complexity of 1840 should be looked in more detail

[@ewanmiller9487]

"New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori, were guaranteed equality when they signed a treaty with the British Crown in 1840"... Equality is not a one way street, and has to work both ways in order to exist. Discrimination cannot be eliminated by separatism, and separatism cannot create equality. After 180 years of cultural co-existence, isn't it time to end the perpetual grieving and claim of entitlement? How can a nation heal its wounds of past wrongs, and find unity and equality, if it is maintaining its cultural division? The entire history of humanity is littered with injustices. To simply turn the tables on apartheid is counter-productive to what is allegedly the goal: cultural equality, and the elimination of discrimination.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

Because it a scam. The treaty was meant to be ripped up. The 1967 New Zealand gov was replacing the UK with an actual NZ gov. They need send their problems to the UK not their own family

[@seanodwyer4322]

All the priviledges may back- fire on them.

[@ewanmiller9487]

@@seanodwyer4322 It will backfire on everyone.

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@ewanmiller9487 ahh do not know where that 4322 number came from. why live in the past when there is a future eternity.

[@destryflame9343]

Settlements are not healing processes.

[@SamYoungnz]

I think that settlements have been healing in Aotearoa, because they are usually accompanied by an acknowledgement of wrongdoing to Tūpuna.

[@4ktreyong196]

RIP THE QUEEN

[@fordboyzzzz]

they dont want to settle, they are at war.

[@sergiustang]

New Zealand is one country that is doing it right

[@PHlophe]

took'em 175 years , this ain't a case of better late than never.

[@priehowell8825]

Doing it wrong . Nothing to make right

[@darryllzwiers7257]

I'd offer a fresh perspective. As NZ'er european, we're all as equally dispossessed from our history. My family have come here in the 50's. In the last 100 years we've all faced new people coming here. But given the maori hate white people, here's something they don't know. Most of us knew nothing about the crowns dealings. We came Herr for better lives. Like maori, we lost our languages and cultures. My grandparents are Dutch and none of us can speak it. When a colony happens, culture is homogenised. The natives assumed us as white folk lost nothing. But as white person here, we lost everything. Pakeha and all subsequent immigrants had to say goodbye to their cultures to build this nation. No one wins in nation building. It's all well to point out what governments did, but you ignore the cultural poverty of the others that had to build this nation

[@navajoauckland6003]

Your ancestors the Dutch have been around trading with my ancestors and so forth, up North since the 1700's, and maybe well before then. It's a preposterous assertion to say Maori hate white people, i speak on my behalf when I say I don't

[@outlaw1forevergetfukd524]

Well said mate

[@pukekoninja]

My mother and father were not allowed to speak Maori at school they didn't have a choice they got punished for speaking Maori your family just Lost it there's a big difference

[@B727X]

Let’s be honest, the big difference is the Polynesians “Māori” we’re only there 300 years earlier. How can you call them indigenous

[@seanodwyer4322]

ahh read book in library that in 1850's auckland they found 200,000 skeletons in caves around auckland and crushed the bones too lay down queen street and central Auckland streets assumeing they were jist dead maori's then years later had a forensic examination of bones that were lifted when they tar sealed the streets and found out the skeletons belonged to a white race/ breed.

[@tahanaparker2660]

@seanodwyer4322 would love to read the book , what's the title of it and what library did you read it at ?

[@tahanaparker2660]

@seanodwyer4322 I'll stand by for response Seanodwyer4322 ............?

[@KiriWest]

Because the land was uninhabited and colonized by Māori, who were once people of the Pacific. Their language and culture became distinct from that of their Polynesian ancestors, which had developed during their 500 years of colonization.

[@tahanaparker2660]

@@KiriWest source of facts ?

[@nicktorea4017]

1835 the declaration of independence was first the Maori version of the 1840 treaty was next & reaffirmed the 1835 declaration the bastardized English version of the treaty came a year or so after that, was the one the government conveniently recognised giving themselves complete control.

[@SamYoungnz]

Dame Whena Cooper is a taonga (a treasure) for all of us in Aotearoa. Te Tiriti O Waitangi is now our de facto constitution, but it took over 150 years for us at a nation to start to get our act together. I think most Pakeha kiwis now realise that huge value lies in enacting the spirit of Te Tiriti, but this is still a work in progress. So worth doing, though. Stealing from other people never adds value to society.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

The British did this to the indigenous population of Britain (the Welsh) too.

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

??? The first king of the Anglo Saxons was a Briton: Cerdic The indigenous population was massacred by the Roman Empire, not the Anglo-Saxons. That was just straight up land grabbing from all of Europe.

[@shreyanshyadav3285]

6:04 Its just the British being British.

[@cascade3769]

They gave you cricket bro.

[@shreyanshyadav3285]

@@cascade3769 Thanks

[@cascade3769]

And your cousin Umesh !

[@cascade3769]

Or is it Suryakumar?

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@cascade3769 Native s should not play Rugby as name comes from Rugby school in Britain/ England.

[@konigschwarz2565]

I live in the USA. We also need to learn of our history.

[@stelley08]

there is no future for people who live in the past

[@ariaaaaaa]

if it's the past why does it still hinder us in the present and future??💀

[@RR-ri4vn]

Leave Australia and leave New Zealand give it back to the indigenous

[@UmQasaann]

Whatever you say settler. 👌🏽

[@stelley08]

@@UmQasaann settler 😄😄😄 thats funny

[@stelley08]

@@RR-ri4vn wish i could leave mate, but im unjabbed 😄👍

[@hongvanphung5012]

so touching for an excellent video

[@FAMEROB]

bit awkward when all Maori are part British themselves

[@renaetamati]

Some not by choice but true

[@boomerplays6987]

I wonder why 😂

[@cascade3769]

​@@boomerplays6987 Because Maori women love the white D.

[@granthardy5844]

Poor victims......

[@nagolnostaw6664]

What about the people before the mareys? Where's there reparation?

[@seanodwyer4322]

nago- ahh will be prayeing 24/7 the spirits/ ghosts off Maori victims all come back too avege themselves

[@MrMuzzle123]

Only problem saying your tribe is wealthy members don't get any yearly dividends only select few at top ceo etc who make money was one small tribe who lost all there settlement money thru bad investments then turned around wanted money all over again

[@jdmachogg]

What?

[@MrMuzzle123]

@@steve-uo3lw ngati tama

[@MrMuzzle123]

Tribe not tribes

[@OryanMcLean]

Āe, people at the top of the trust boards getting it all. While the tangata are at Home nō better off. Nō land.

[@raskltube]

how do they spend the money though? is it given as a hand out?

[@wegotissues5486]

Well America has seen this story and know it all to well

[@schrecksekunde2118]

wonderful topics

[@jonathantepairi2664]

The fault of the colonial English was that they disregarded the treaty by taking the land by pakeha law and not protecting maori interest as set out in the treaty,,,, the maori prior to 1835 owned 100% of new zealand after the signing of the treaty they owned only 8% by 1922

[@Chichi-sl2mq]

the British and their treaties.... we know this ask Lombengula. and they prioritize honoring contracts that are void from the get go.

[@jimijamesjowitt]

This treaty was voided long ago. Dunno why they think its still valid. Its peace treaty. Yet Maori attacked our families and the gov sat on their hands so the people had to form militias. To protect local Maori also. The US were busy stoke the fire to push the British like they did in India.

[@kentershackle1329]

Kudos to N.Zealand. brave to admitting that it was wrong, then, and reconciliation.

[@kanakamakapalua6097]

Not only is nz wrong it's fake & illegal under the treaties of international laws. nz must be deleted & the british expelled.

[@kingfillins4117]

This is atrociously bad. Maori knew what a sale was. They didn’t buy muskets thinking they were some guardianship. They didn’t lose land they sold it. Mairi had diseases before colonisation. They had slavery, cannibalism and brutal wars etc. it was no utopia. It was harsh. Keeping warm alone was difficult. Food was not always abundant. Yes the whole point of the treaty was to acquire land. It’s specifically written in the treaty. Maori welcomed and chose learning English as it was seen as a way forward in a modern world. Maori were a Stone Age people and suddenly with no effort at all had steel and contemporary medicines and technology. What’s that worth? Maori signed a contract giving first options on land sales in return for the protection and rights of other subjects. Such as the right for the individual to own property not just the tribe.

[@panismith1544]

"Exploit, they did"

[@halfmoon106]

Who cares? Lol

[@cascade3769]

@Pani Smith Being mixed race, there is a reasonable chance your family WERE the colonisers.

[@mysticalwind4632]

"... through trickery and violence" that says it all. Anywhere they went that's exactly what European colonizers did. Even to this day although the days of European colonies and Imperialism are long gone, you don't need to look hard to find examples of the same. The biggest example is what happened to Iraq and that whole WMD fiasco.

[@pissiole5654]

what was the world like before the british empire? ill wait

[@rosbaldiston7979]

@@pissiole5654 Awful. Maori held slaves, they were cannibals, they were consistently fighting and genociding each other's tribes. They had not even discovered the wheel.

[@ProdSKOLR]

You just described what Europeans had been doing for centruies.

[@spitfire8790]

If the role was reversed, Say African or Mario were the Colonizers they would've done the exact same. Maori are not natives to their lands, as well as African, Europeans and Asians. Survival of the Fittest

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@pissiole5654 - they evolved from the Roman Empire

[@yondo2467]

Racism is still I thing in New Zealand, I was at the market a few months ago and when I was there A Maori woman said I was not A New Zealander because I am not a child of the land, also I have a friend that was walking through the streets of Auckland and when he was walking a man walked up to him and said to him that he would go back to his own country.

[@war3170]

Racism in New Zealand only exists to people of color because they’re the ones being oppressed, facing inequality since the signing of the treaty, and our pacific island brothers and sisters have had it since the dawn raids. That’s actual racism

[@renaetamati]

Yeah you'll get people like that. Especially old Nana who think their better than everyone

[@mboiko]

This happened in every corner of the world and to every race of people in the world...do you think there weren't invasions, conquests, slavery in Africa, North/South America, and throughout the world 500-1500+ years ago. Do you think Genghis Khan worried about reparations? We often look at the world as though only certain groups carried out these actions...when it was very common throughout the world's history...and like it or not part of our human story from the very beginning.

[@TeamGrotbag]

very true, as demonstrated by the origins of the work 'Slave' which derives from the word 'Slavic'. The Eastern European Slavic population suffered the abuse of the Spanish Muslim community in the ninth century.

[@sefp]

@@TeamGrotbag I think you’ve got it wrong. Slavic countries are not even near Spain. And Muslim Spanish conquest didn’t even get past France.

[@sefp]

False equivalency and obfuscation. Not in africa outside zulu tribe. And no where near as bad as western / European and Middle Eastern/Muslim approach. I don’t know much about eastern non European/ Muslim wares. But what I do know their culture and peoples weren’t completely wiped out. And don’t complain about it like or react it was anywhere as bad.

[@sefp]

Surely you don’t mind it happening to you your family and ethnicity then if it’s ok for other people without redress apology or excuse. The standard you hold have to be also applied to yourself.

[@sefp]

Ghengis didn’t keep people down. He was just on a rampage. Because China shut his Mongol people out of their civilisation. Ans didn’t want to let them in and weren’t particularly nice. It wasn’t that deep or people kept oppressed in inter generational poverty. And less then they started. Just a passing battle.

[@TheOne-er7nk]

There's a hotel in Japan that's been in the same family for longer than the Maori have been in New Zealand.

[@harpyhill]

Aw nobody cares 🤣

[@siriusblack3121]

Didn't know new Zealand treats the real locals, just like the Australian

[@Sanjay_Singh_Bisht]

Just like Americans.

[@garnergarner7820]

Treaty claims settlement is just another trick in their book.... 🤣...🙄wakey wakey!!

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

Sounds like a lot of peole in the comments need to learn about aborginal title.

[@jamuojisan]

It always creates more harms than helps whenever one country just copies another's policy. What works in NZ will not work in other countries. They have their own wrongs and their own indigenous tribes. Treating all of them the same is as good as treating all your kids the same, disregarding their differences.

[@timiam9800]

Both the Crown and the Tribes individually and collectively, have been patient, listened and recognised the settlement is a process, an imperfect one certainly but one both sides of the table have persisted with integrity and hope. We have a long long way to go. The settlements do nothing to directly address the social impact that resentment in imprisonment and poverty of Maori after generations of intentional marginalisation. But we have started, and I hope we're walking together.

[@jamuojisan]

@@timiam9800 thank you for the information. You've pointed out something that's missing in the video, that is the settlement is not only the work of the Crown, but it also needs the cooperation and patience of the Tribes to make it happen. Thanks!

[@seanodwyer4322]

@Bogdanmeoff - There alot off hipporissy around.

[@andrewmckenzieart]

Maori were not indigenous to New Zealand. They too came here from Asia in their Waka a few hundred years ahead of Europeans. Before them the Mori Ori came from overseas as well. They were not just found in New Zealand as a people that had always existed in this land. Another interesting point.. Maori sought help from the crown to form a treaty as they were killing each other in such vast numbers that they feared they would almost genecide their own people. At the time they were a warfaring people well known for killing other Maori people within different localities, and with the aquisition of guns from the Europeans this had escalated horribly. The reparations for the government stealing their land must be completed rightfully so. Having said this it too must be resolved soon. Unfortunately there is a cash grab in our country which has cultural dominance at its core and it has got to a point where many people cannot access funds to help them out of poverty while Maori people have excess of opportunity backed by access to funding. I think that we are now a multi-cultural nation and not a bicultural-nation. Time for New Zealand to grow up and address this once and for all, so all people have equal rights and access to funding for help when needed.

[@christinasornbutnark1208]

I live in California, USA our state just voted and won to enact a commission to enact a bill to pay reparations to black people. Recently a 200 million $$ beach front part was awarded to a famous black family from a long time ago that once had a beach club for black ppl bc they were not aloud at other beaches. Super fcked up, but it seems we might get a little part of it right after all. That said I think the federal government should be doing the reparations part.

[@MJMilano7]

The best reparation is a one way ticket to Africa. Crybabies think they are the biggest victims but actually native Americans are.

[@rosbaldiston7979]

@@MJMilano7 Agreed. If America sucks so much maybe they can go back to their homeland.

[@georgeskanderbeg3242]

Reparations 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

[@davethewave7248]

"As the tentacles of Western imperialism spread around the world...' lol. Western imperialism was also the force of civilization that brought law and order. Just as the Romans conquered and civilized Europe, so too did Europe conquer and civilize the world. It's all a matter of perspective.

[@logicmind1817]

Ah. The old habit of do wrong first and say sorry later. What does this teach everyone? If you don't want to be bullied, get strong first. Resting on other sympathy for goodwill is a disaster in the making.

[@bighoose]

Racist British UK colonization of NZ in which they stole Maori land and resources, the negative affects still felt today

[@cascade3769]

Yeah that's why Maori don't play rugby as it's a British sport.

[@bighoose]

@@cascade3769 Shut up goofball ffs lol

[@lalbiakzualachhakchhuak9958]

None of the commenters (now) have watched the video fully yet. We just come and comment away.

[@meykarangagara9216]

And, if Pakeha had not come we would not have the same initiatives today, so I believe...Any way I am thankful that my koro's manage to succeed back to their lands like it should be so, and that some of us, know how' to do the right thing by, the people.

[@Ben-kv6er]

Wish, Canada, USA did this with the native Americans

[@TubeNutriDoc]

Hmmm. Interesting observations. May be a step forward for all split countries. Just really wonder how much we project our current values onto people's values in the past and making reparations based on that gap. Economies and cultures continue to move forward and this Country has found a way which may be less contentious than others, to make for a peaceful resolution.

[@FAMEROB]

more racism...great

[@ashoks5317]

You reap as you sow. When you attack the culture and language the atrocities will always be remembered. The axe may have forgotten but not the trees. Hand over the land and moveaway let them rule them selves. How do yo feel if Britain is occupied by France/Germany and your are forced to speak French/German ?

[@davidatkinson5858]

Yeah that's fine but what about the population that lived in new Zealand before the Maori arrived and ate them all?

[@halfmoon106]

Lol what "colonial wrongs", ending cannibalism? Protecting Maoris from the frogs?

[@cascade3769]

And giving Maori rugby, steel roofing and modern medicine.

[@budgetking2591]

Hope some day the USA will follow this great example.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

Already has.

[@FAMEROB]

the native americans have too much land they dont know what to do with it

[@spyrilleedinlarge5319]

Get together and thrive

[@blissfulservant4189]

They have been whited out. The wrong can never be made right. Too many innonect blood cry from the land. They are still crying for justice which only the creator can give.

[@paperclip612]

What about the atrocities maoris tribes committed against each other which led to some maori chiefs asking the british to take over the land.

[@zulu505]

New Zealand as always leading the way

[@PHlophe]

it took them 175 years that ain't leading to me

[@war3170]

@@PHlophe facts. It’s been way too long

[@ProdSKOLR]

Stg

[@FAMEROB]

its going backwards now

[@KarryKarryKarry]

A 15% return on investment you say? 🤔 let me get my monocle 🧐.

[@Mrsmifff]

If you people actually cared you wouldn't have escorted the queen and you would have stood your ground.

[@sussannenicoll9545]

My ancestors are American not pakeha who are hated on.

[@teawaruaedwards274]

I don't want the pakehas guilty Remorse I only want their brotherhood. As Whina once said" better to marry the buggars and make them whanau. THEN they might understand us".