Kōrero with Prof Margaret Mutu

It was an evening of humour and song when broadcaster Moana Maniapoto (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Pikiao) warmly interviewed Professor Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua) at the Samoa House in late March.
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[@punkybrewstar83]

I've realized how thin I am spreading myself lately. Wāhine Māori will overcome & I have faith that this time will only make us stronger. I care deeply about all Indigenous women, but I first & foremost have an obligation to my own tangata. I have been giving too much of myself to causes that continue to center yt, pākehā, boomer men- & I don't owe such people ANYTHING. I have limited resources to give & I need to center my own.

[@cascade3769]

If you're not part Pakeha, I am the Dalai Lama.

[@LAWTONHAKARAIA]

Lovely and a very clever lady is Margaret.

[@kingfillins4117]

The reason Australia voted no is because they learnt about the issues or knew about them. So she’s wrong.. She’s also wrong that people don’t know about the treaty. She’s wrong about the treaty. She has a revisionist version of its meaning. Chiefs At the signing clearly stated their opposition to signing because, they knew it was about seeding sovereignty. But after the musket wars, it was way of stopping the atrocious tribal violence Among other issues. There are no principles in the treaty. The myth of principles is revisionist activism.

[@doraedmonds5917]

Do you think it is because they have put the skin of NZ citizen on us - Kiriraro? ‘He who is a NZ citizen has no whakapapa!’ When I looked at my birth certificate it is a DEATH CERTIFICATE! My father signed where it says ‘name of stillborn child’! There was nowhere for him to sign otherwise! So we are all dead entities, corporations so we have no whakapapa! Nz citizens get told what to do, they only have privileges however if we are actually able to shed that skin we are back to being sovereign even though we NEVER CEDED SOVEREIGNTY only then will we be recognised by the illegal illegitimate American corporation - corporations CANNOT GOVERN!

[@doraedmonds5917]

So what of Kohuiarau our true paremata? He Whakaputanga is the Declaration of Independence but kohuiarau came out of recess in 1997 - the Queen agreed and sent word to the NZ corporation claiming to be government! Kohuiarau has been in existence since 1807!

[@kingfillins4117]

She is very confused. Subjects of the crown have rights Based on the authority of the crown as a group. The crown doesn’t have every person on the planet as a subject. The crown has a select group of people as subjects the people that it is granted subject hood to.. You can call it a school of fish you can call it a herd of sheep a flock of birds doesn’t matter. The crown is the umbrella that protects the subjects. She’ appears to be so bigoted that she can’t think clearly. No in 1840 there were maybe 80,000 Maori. 29,000 had been killed in the musket wars. 30?000 wounded. If Maori didn’t cede Sovereignty. Why did they speak out at the signing saying that they would not be low Crown would not be high they would not be low because they knew that the treaty meant that they would lose their sovereignty. But they were gain peace, money from land, sales, food, security, metal, the wheel wool. Beef horses. And they knew what sovereignty was based on the Bible, and they saw the benefit of having a ruler that was not Maori Because how could they choose without maybe warfare who would be the Maori leader of the Maori people.

[@kingfillins4117]

It’s curious that she sees that the British were marrying into her family when she is English. So did she come about by a marriage into an English being or vice versa? The fact that she tries to separate the two is odd because how can she separate herself?