South Island hīkoi leader Teresa Butler accused David Seymour of "colonising history"

[@NZ_Kiwi1010]

If she feels so strongly that kiwis support this movement. It's time for a referendum.

[@Allstaris]

Equal rights for all New Zealanders, that's what she is protesting. How can we take her compliants seriously? We can't. When the idea has no creditability, she uses a word that doesn't mean anything. Tokenism of a language that has different meanings in different context's is not helping NZers understand the problem with equal rights that tpm has

[@logicalanswer3529]

She is marching in support of a separatist so that tells you a lot.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

I remember the last Hikoi - Seabed and Foreshore protest. That was after 2002 (when I moved to NZ) - which I will note is not 40 years ago. Seems her knowledge of history is a little wonky.

[@cameron132]

She gave no specific argument besides broad statements about white people and colonisation.

[@Bonsqueesquee]

They never do.

[@ianwatson65]

Tired of it

[@msbuilding2806]

When i was a little boy i was proud to be part maori, my nan used to tell me i had maori blood flowing through my veins and i felt strong when she said that to me...over the years we went to gatherings at the marae, i went to a kohanga instead of a "pakeha" kindy...we went to tangi and all of that...ill tell you the main memories i have from those times because i can still here them like they were yesterday... they were "Go home honki"... "You're not from our tribe"... "fucking pakeha"..."Ew who let you on the marae"...Ect. I could go on but ive already gone on enough. Chur from this halfcast.

[@tracymichaelsen493]

I'm half cast. I had the opposite experience . My whanau wasn't to be fcked with however. So I was highly protected not just from Maori but anyone. People get bullied . I think you may have missed the point as to why Maori felt fearful of your white skin. Just as pakeha fear Maori. I hope you can still feel the love of your grand mother. That's the taonga that no one can take from you. Arohanui ❤

[@Bonsqueesquee]

You'll never be maori enough for this cult. I have direct bloodline to Wiremu Awaitaia but I'll never be Maori enough... because I'm not.

[@Bonsqueesquee]

​@@tracymichaelsen493 maori have been brainwashed since 1975 and indoctrinated. Imagine realising you've been lied to by a cult for generations.

[@tracymichaelsen493]

@Bonsqueesquee Not Maori? By choice? Kei te pai. Be what you like. I'm Maori. I like being Maori.❤️

[@kiwitransgirl]

Where in seymors bill does it hurt maori, its about equal rights for everyone

[@Themaorigreenlantern]

@@kiwitransgirl Bull shit!

[@Freedom4UFreedom4every1]

She has just quickly contradicted herself and her whole movements credibility; 3:39 without David Seymour they would have no unity or movement, they would have nothing to yell about. Doesn't give them the advantage with that ironic paradox. So by coming together they are supporting David Seymour!

[@henningschmidt8569]

That would be 0.01% of the population. The rest of us want something else.....

[@timdeavin422]

Nice colonial classes, nail polish, clothing, etc.

[@pauljones3062]

Colonialists tattooing machine, as if as they did way back she wouldn’t cope with pain. Can’t say this tattooed look will aid our tourism industry as very intimidating & I dare say will have the big Bone through the nose to complete the look.

[@philbphotography6175]

I am from a family that came over on the first boats. They donated large amounts of land in England to the railways there. Came here and bought vast amount of the land here in canterbury. Their hime was near the boat sheds. Bailey house created so much !! They donated most of the land back. To this day none of the ansestors have begged for anything back even though we had a legal right to try to. There is a greater good. And we all need to be a part of it. We have created a new land,.....for everyone !!!

[@red2775]

Shouldn't she be condemning gangs and the harm they do to the community

[@logicalanswer3529]

Keep in mind that she makes ethnicity based excuses.

[@FrançoisBissey]

Good job keeping your cool there Chris. Does that lady hear what she says and how it does not answer the question and how it is racist.

[@logicalanswer3529]

Even if the media wasn't lying about the numbers - That was a pathetically weak turnout for what Rawiri claims are 20% (around 1.2 million) of the population. They couldn't even get 1% of Māori to turn up. A march is support of separatism is nothing to be proud of in 2024. Rawiri Waititi literally said "It's now time for us to step comfortably into our rangatiratanga and to not give too much to this Pakeha Government with their Pakeha Budget for their Pakeha economy,"

[@Bonsqueesquee]

It's all about camera angles

[@logicalanswer3529]

@@Bonsqueesquee Good point.

[@KotahitangaAotearoa]

Maori business and development have contributed 69billion to the economy. IF you walked in the hikoi you would have met,ethnic peoples,pacifica"s,gangs,'school kids,kids in prams,retired pakeha couples displaying their wee placards.Pit stops for water, food and first aid. A kiwis hikoi at its best Kotahitanga (unity)

[@brent225]

Wow this is just cringe. Minority making a lot of noise. Have they even read the proposed act.

[@pauljones3062]

Nah, mostly literacy & numeracy lacking.

[@sandyt4417]

Oh my god. No he isn't.

[@rogeratkinson7209]

Sounds like she hasn't read the bill .

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

bill created without maaori input waste of time!

[@everdreamer5112]

Of course she has, it's disgusting and insulting and only has corporate business and resource exploitation interests.

[@rogeratkinson7209]

@@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722Wrong, Plenty of Maori in the Act party

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

@@rogeratkinson7209 I don't believe Seymor even knows his whakapapa, not educated and refuses to relearn who they are, puppets to the system. Dont speak their language and not trying to see why 80,000 of there people are protesting, show me where ACTS hikoi is, as I don't see many.

[@Bonsqueesquee]

I get unhinged vibes from this Maori Supremacist.

[@sunnynz6628]

It's a Clown 🤡 show

[@tracymichaelsen493]

Calling Maori clowns is really sad in this day and age

[@medeacorpmedeacorporation246]

not worried about flying home on a colonisers plane , total Hippocrates she can live in Aotearussia , 99% of us live in New Zealand

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

Remember each chief represented hundreds if not thousands of different whanau.

[@SteveWrathall]

So her beef is with people who want to "be who they want to be, and don't care about tangata whenua". Yes. And ? Why shouldn't we be who we want to be? Whether we care about the Maori world view is up to us

[@Pedromathews234]

"Putting everyone else Rights on the same playing field" Enough said another racist grifter.

[@jeffbarbour2194]

What a winner!

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

Please consult maaori when creating your Bill. That way there is transparency. Without consultation Maaori see mistrust. I know what she is saying. Its the intent and feel of his bill that needs to be fully clarified. Talks about equality and yet doesn't consult maaori. Talks about universality but doesn't recognize bicultural mana held in treaty. Recognizes the english version and not the Maaori version, saying that maaori will govern their own affairs.

[@rogeratkinson7209]

Wrong on so many points sorry. Plenty of Maori in Act party. Maori version is the one they are talking about.

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

Maaori version was signed by the Maori, this is the time lined who and time signed.

[@BonesTheCat]

Didn’t the Māori colonise New Zealand?

[@BH-ro4ly]

yep, moriori where there first

[@kiwis0uth]

There is no evidence that the Moriori were on mainland Aotearoa New Zealand before the Moari arrived. While people like Don Brash and others spread this rubbish, it has been debunked. Having said that, Maori did go to the Chatham Islands.

[@KiwiSeeknTheTruth]

Yes Polynesian Maori colonise nz . And No moriori did not occupy nz , I have not come across as to why that was said by either Maori or non Maori .... This is what I've found so far . Plz feel free to do reaserch as well 😊 The Ngati Kahupungapunga lived all along the Waikato Valley. Piraunui Pa at Matawhana near Tokoroa was a major pa site which sadly has not been preserved. In 1930 the walls and domes were still intact and carefully trimmed rock showed a finish that would not disgrace a stone mason.Ngāti Kahupungapunga also lived around Lake Okataina in the Rotorua Lakes district. Before they were called the Kahupungapuna, they were of the myriads of Ruatamore who had followed the myriads of Maruiwi. There’s more about them under ‘The people before Toi.’Ngati Raukawa, the sub-tribe of Tainui who wiped them out acknowledge the Ngati Kahupungapunga as the original Tangata Whenua, the people of the land. Monica Matamua appeared before the Waitangi Tribunal in the 1990s. Matamua is a descendant of the Ngāti Hotu tribe, also known as the Pafupaiarehe, and sought recognition of her tribal existence and compensation from the Crown. Matamua's appearance before the tribunal was in response to a brutal battle between the Ngāti Hotu and the Whanganui Māori, where the Whanganui Māori hung the legs of fallen Ngāti Hotu warriors from trees. www.tongarirorivermotel.co.nz/how-can-maori-be-indigenous-to-nz/ treatygate.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/kupes-descendant-confirms-other-races-were-here-first/

[@BonesTheCat]

@@kiwis0uth I've read the Moriori Claims Settlement Act 2021 along with the Historically Agreed Account of their plight within that act. Given the nature of their lifestyle there wouldn't be any evidence of their existence on mainland New Zealand. Not like they were building pyramids or anything. I'm reluctant to believe the word of conquering cannibalistic force who doesn't benefit in any way from admitting there were people before them. History is written by the victors and all that. Especially when not telling the truth would benefit them more. I find it hard to believe they went from Polynesia and missed New Zealand entirely. That history of Chatham Islands only exists because the Crown were here when the Moriori were enslaved and saw it for themselves. Would that history exist If they hadn't? Doubt it. But, that's just my opinion.

[@kiwis0uth]

Blooody typing skills. Maori not Moari. Sorry good people

[@deanbeck2993]

Trump is king of humanity

[@tracymichaelsen493]

Trump sadly is a brilliant plant. If you investigate what Washington DC truely is, then it doesn't matter who's standing on the hill or what they are saying. It's the fact that they wouldn't be on that hill if not placed there. Not by the illusion of democracy. Democracy is a lie to keep people believing in a system setup to fck them over on the daily.

[@logicalanswer3529]

@@tracymichaelsen493 False, you are the exact type of person who won him the election.

[@wokesick]

@@tracymichaelsen493 There are many plants but Trump ain't one of them.

[@tracymichaelsen493]

@wokesick Well, I hope your correct. He's too good to be true.❤️

[@johnrait4784]

I think its at the point where certain maori and anyone else who chooses can live in one part of the island with their own Maori govt and fund themselves and the rest live elsewhere.

[@LanceRoulston]

You take the money though aye

[@LanceRoulston]

I do think that the govt should be pitching in & helping out Maori workers who are losing jobs though, many of these closures around forestry & meatworks, where's S Jones?

[@bodietihoihuitoroataylor6722]

Wrong you better do research

[@Pacificpearl-ce5nq]

Every country has an indigenous race. Saying NZ is one country for all it is removing the identity of this country. When you visit another country you have to respect the hosts. If you deny the Maori of being the indigenous people of NZ, you are saying its ok for us to overlook the tangata of the whenua. In Wales and Scotland, all place names are in their celtic and in their mother tongue. When visitors arrive to NZ they want to know more about the people from this land and the government are trying to deny that wih this bill, in my opinion

[@bebisibeb]

🤡

[@logicalanswer3529]

You haven't read the treaty principles bill. Don't worry, you are not alone. Most people against it who call it racist and so on have not bothered to read it either.

[@Bonsqueesquee]

But pakeha have been here for a couple of hundreds of years too. Most maori are mixed with pakeha.

[@KiwiSeeknTheTruth]

The Ngati Kahupungapunga lived all along the Waikato Valley. Piraunui Pa at Matawhana near Tokoroa was a major pa site which sadly has not been preserved. In 1930 the walls and domes were still intact and carefully trimmed rock showed a finish that would not disgrace a stone mason.Ngāti Kahupungapunga also lived around Lake Okataina in the Rotorua Lakes district. Before they were called the Kahupungapuna, they were of the myriads of Ruatamore who had followed the myriads of Maruiwi. There’s more about them under ‘The people before Toi.’Ngati Raukawa, the sub-tribe of Tainui who wiped them out acknowledge the Ngati Kahupungapunga as the original Tangata Whenua, the people of the land. Monica Matamua appeared before the Waitangi Tribunal in the 1990s. Matamua is a descendant of the Ngāti Hotu tribe, also known as the Pafupaiarehe, and sought recognition of her tribal existence and compensation from the Crown. Matamua's appearance before the tribunal was in response to a brutal battle between the Ngāti Hotu and the Whanganui Māori, where the Whanganui Māori hung the legs of fallen Ngāti Hotu warriors from trees. www.tongarirorivermotel.co.nz/how-can-maori-be-indigenous-to-nz/ treatygate.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/kupes-descendant-confirms-other-races-were-here-first/

[@KotahitangaAotearoa]

@@logicalanswer3529 Maori will lead the conversation on te tirity o Waitangi.

[@Geni-h9f]

Embarassing 2 the world! What planet are you on! We have millions of people across the world giving us the thumbs up! You are so rascist you only see your own view!

[@KotahitangaAotearoa]

Sorry folks, maori and the crown have signed a legal binding agreement.Treaty settlements were capped at 3cents in the dollar.Little or no land was available for buy back.However maori business and development has been successfull.Maori business is good for the economy.Thousands of jobs and businesses have been lost in 2024 under this government.This is bad for the economy.New Zealand aotearoa is better off with maori enterprize.David Seymour is a great storyteller and can spin a good yarn or two.A minister of education where children have a day of to go on a hikoi. Bad for our kids and their education.Chris Luxon must kill this bill and accept that maori are good for the economy and the future of NZ Aotearoa.

[@logicalanswer3529]

You haven't read the treaty principles bill. Don't worry, you are not alone. Most people against it who call it racist and so on have not bothered to read it either.

[@KiwiSeeknTheTruth]

And are the maori businesses owned by maori cheifs iwi who didn't sign the treaty of Waitangi? Because if they are and your ancestral cheif signed the treaty on behalf of your iwi you are part of the crown an government like the rest of nz .

[@KiwiSeeknTheTruth]

THE BILL WAS KILLED TO BEGIN WITH , IT WAS NEVER GOING TO PASS WITHOUT ENOUGH MPS SUPPORTING IT, I'm glad seymour opened the can , because now winston peters bill can be passed into law and the can can be closed.

[@KotahitangaAotearoa]

@@KiwiSeeknTheTruth maori business operated prior to the treaty in 1840..Maori now own 5% of the land mass.As land becomes available maori business will buyback.The maori contribution to the economy is $69billion. Maori business and development was not born out of being privileged.Maori construction crews built the beehive.Heretaunga trade services master plasterers completed parliament earthquake restrengthening.These are only a few maori initative project examples.

[@KotahitangaAotearoa]

@@logicalanswer3529 Maori will lead on constitutional reform.

[@decay-154]

Whats a hikoi ?

[@greatwhite9428]

It sounds like a fish

[@MajesticDemonLord]

It is a protest march to parliment to seek a redress of grievance. The last one, IIRC, was for the Seabed and Foreshore bill around 2004.

[@pauljones3062]

Scared their preferential benefits & privileges they receive over the other 90% of New Zealanders may Go. Bet KFC did big business & no doubt the organiser whom is on the government payroll working for the Maori Party paid for it or was that from the Gangs revenue stream.

[@pauljones3062]

Tattooed, greenstone,woke, socialist, fermenting racial division based on ignorance & mostly illiterate. Maori committed Genocide on the original indigenous people of NZ & now won’t special treatment & genetically there are few of them Maori that have more than 38% Maori DNA due to interbreeding.