Whakapapa and Tuakiri: Strengthening ancestry and identity | Kaye-Maree Dunn | TEDxAuckland

[@ourpeople-g7r]

Russell Crowe is Māori, and identifies with Ngāti Porou through one of his maternal great-great-grandmothers. His paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was a Welsh man from Wrexham, while another of his grandparents was Scottish. His other ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish. So we see there is Welsh, English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish blood in him…..but one of his maternal great-great-grandmothers was maori and so…. Russell Crowe is Māori.

[@cocoaorange1]

I heard that.

[@nz_proud]

I knew he had Māori ancestry but I didn't know he was Ngāti Porou.

[@ziasultani6314]

You are inspiring!

[@gavincarey4782]

TEDx TALKs " Tenure in the oppression industry "

[@ngapuhiwahinetoa]

Tena koe whanaunga 🥰😇

[@kiaclarke3154]

GET A DNA and know what a Maori is. You do not have the knowledge foreigners think they no it all.

[@ourpeople-g7r]

You don´t need a DNA test to know what a maori is. Just watch a ram-raid and those people you see doing it are maoris.

[@kiaclarke3154]

To tell yourself the truth. Stop the BIG lie. Get a DNA and ask your true ancestors you have no more shame.

[@PeterGreenbank]

Hi Kia, Please explain more... I want to understand what you mean? I just watched the Ted Talk & interested in using the platform. Respectfully asking you to expand on your comment. Peter.

[@naniok4271]

She touched on DNA tests and genealogical companies, she questioned whether it's ethical for corporations to have this abundance of information on our families - yet we don't know them or what they could do with that data. They are not reliable places for Māori to find out more information about their ancestry. Those tests will only show general places of ancestral migration. Which is pointless because Māori know they came from the Pasifika, Polynesian Islands, Southeast Asia and that most are mixed with European and other heritage. Data sovereignty is Tino Rangatiratanga.

[@jonathantepairi2664]

YOu don't need a DNA test to know your whakapapa, my ancestry is maori through my mothers tuhoe line my great great grandfather was Tuterangi Tepairi (see bio on Google) my English blood lies in the Irish name ryland and the english man William John poulgrain all of which are part of new zealand history and available on google,,,, to have so much mixed blood does not mean you shouldn't just identify with one over the other,,, but my personal choice is so I would not forget where I came from and who I was my pepeha identifies me as maori, my genealogy identifies my pakeha history