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Māori never ceded sovereignty. Everyone with the privilege of being on this land is here because of the generosity of Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa. Te Tiriti o Waitangi benefits everyone!

They have beaten and legislated the language out of generations of my people, tried to shut down revitalisation, harmed so many in state care, stolen our land, overpoliced and made so many I know and love experience police brutality. Created education and justice systems that are monocultural and don't work. But te reo Māori will survive, te ao Māori will survive, tangata whenua will survive.

Land back, indigenous rights and liberation for all indigenous peoples, everywhere in the world.

Toitū te Tiriti! Toitū te ao Māori! Toitū te reo Māori! Toitū tangata whenua! Ake ake ake!

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A collection of reflective pātai for Waitangi Day 2025 which I lay at your feet as a wero.

Text version here.

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On this day 185 years ago, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was first signed at what is now the Treaty House at Waitangi. A document that, had its Te Reo Māori text been honoured, would have established Aotearoa New Zealand as a nation in partnership, kotahitanga, between the Crown and Māori. Partnership freely given between tangata Whenua and tangata Tiriti.

It wasn't. Not only was the English text favoured for most of our history, it differed from the Te Reo Māori text in key ways. Where the English text signed by almost none of the Iwi demands the ceding of sovereignty, the Te Reo does not, and indeed promises that Māori would keep their tino rangatiratanga and taonga in return for governorship. Neither Māori sovereignty, nor taonga, were respected.

In recent decades, great progress has been made in undoing the evils of the past, undoing breaches of Te Tiriti. That work is nowhere near complete, but it is happening. But in backlash to that come efforts to erase Te Tiriti yet more; the current Government is pushing forward a Bill designed to strip Te Tiriti of its power and destroy the partnership it built in favour of an assimilative Crown hegemony. That must be opposed, and this year most of all Waitangi Day is important. And if it is to come in the spirit of kotahitanga, that opposition must come from all of Aotearoa, not just Māori but Pākehā too. As tangata Tiriti, we have just as much duty to protect Te Tiriti. Te Tiriti invited us here; let us no longer trample on that invitation.

TOITŪ TE TIRITI

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happy waitangi day, if anyone wants to help a māori move out of a violently racist living situation i've been stuck in for the past year any help would be appreciated lmao. money will be put aside so i can make bond once i find a place that actually gets back to me

pāypāl.me is hoodypet, please leave a note saying it's for irawhiti since it's my friend's account. don't tag as anything thanks. ngā mihi arohanui

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