Te Atiawa and Taranaki sign negotiation terms
The last two Taranaki iwi to complete their settlements, Te Atiawa and Taranaki, will today sign terms to start negotiations ... 14 years after the Waitangi Tribunal reported on their claims.
The signings, at Owae Marae in Waitara and Puniho Marae southwest of New Plymouth, are on the 150th anniversary of the first shots being fired in the Taranaki Wars.
Te Atiawa negotiator Grant Knuckey says Prime Minister John Key and Treaty minister Chris Finlayson will sign the document at Owae under a statue of Sir Maui Pomare, who first put the issue of confiscation on the table in 1923.
And at the front of the meeting house is Wiremu Kingi, whose refusal to allow the sale of the Pekapeka Block at Waitara was used by the Crown as an excuse to attack.
“Not only Wiremu Kingi but the doors to the meeting house will be open and the other tupuna will be able to peer out the door, Titokowaru at the back, one of the main pou of the house, he will be able to see the table as well,” Mr Knuckey says.
Te Atiawa expects negotiations to take up to two years.
HAWKES BAY CELEBRATES MAORI-IRISH LINKS
The relationship between Maori and Irish immigrants will be celebrated today in the Hawkes Bay at the annual hui and hooli.
Organiser Dennis O'Reilly says the event has become a must do for the community, who gather at Waiohiki Community Arts Center to see and hear musicians, dancers and storytellers from both cultures reflect on a shared history.
He says the cross cultural approach to St Patrick's day is going down a treat, to be sure.
“It's good fun. It’s about celebrating our differences as kiwis but our unity as a nation, so we’ve got three flags, the New Zealand flag, the Irish flag and the Maori flag,” Mr O’Reilly says.
This year’s St Patricks Day address will be by radio presenter Noelle McCarthy.
CANADIAN EXPERIENCE TO HELP WORLD CUP BROADCASTS
Maori Television will tap into the experience of Canadian indigenous broadcasters to cover next year's Rugby World Cup.
Presenter Julian Wilcox says at the Second World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network in Taiwan last week, Canada's Aboriginal People's Televison Network reported on its experience covering the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 10 languages.
Maori Television is sending programmer Haunui Royal to Canada to learn what he can from the Aboriginal People's Televison experience.
VOICE FOR TIKANGA IN SCIENCE DROWNED
Green Party Maori spokesperson Bevan Tipene Matua has drowned while collecting kaimoana near his home at Porangahau in the Hawkes Bay.
Party co-leader Metiria Turei says Mr Matua from Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu was a pou of the party and a strong Maori voice in the conservation movement.
She says his work as a scientist and policy analyst means he was able to make his arguments persuasive.
“He was right on the forefront of working on issues like genetic engineering, those kinds of issues that are really technical and often which the scientific and the Pakeha scientific community dismiss Maori views, dismiss the tikanga and don’t respect the fact that Maori have a strong tikanga analysis that is as strong and as legitimate as any other cultural analysis, like western science,” Ms Turei says.
E te tama purotu o Ngati Kere, moe mai ra.
TARANAKI MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF LAND WARS
It's the 150th anniversary of the start of the Taranaki Wars, and the province is marking the day by making and showing history.
Te Atiawa and Taranaki iwi are signing terms of negotiation to finally settle their claims over the confiscations of the 1860s.
And Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth is turning over its galleries to show the effects of war and colonisation on the region.
Chief executive Bill McNaught says the show aims to challenge some of the understandings of the Taranaki War and show it was about more than land.
“Issues around cultural redress and the fact the language was almost wiped out, the general cultural disrespect, all those issues we’ve tried to explore and it’s only when you understand the complexity of that ht you realise why war broke out and why there is still an incredible challenge in resolving of the legacy of last 150 years,” Mr McNaught says.
Taranaki War, Our Legacy ... Our Challenge will be opened this morning by the Prime Minister
AUCKLAND POLYFEST BIGGEST EVER
The world's biggest secondary schools cultural festival gets under way in south Auckland this morning.
ASB Polyfest spokesperson Dean Wilson says over the next four days 208 culture groups from 65 schools will battle it out at the Manukau Sports Bowl.
That's a big jump from the first festival hosted at Hillary College in 1976, when four schools took part.
He says breaking kapa haka into three divisions means all schools will have a chance, and not just the traditional strong ones like Hato Petera, Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Hoani Waititi, Kahurangi from Auckland Girls Grammar, and Manurewa's James Cook High.
The signings, at Owae Marae in Waitara and Puniho Marae southwest of New Plymouth, are on the 150th anniversary of the first shots being fired in the Taranaki Wars.
Te Atiawa negotiator Grant Knuckey says Prime Minister John Key and Treaty minister Chris Finlayson will sign the document at Owae under a statue of Sir Maui Pomare, who first put the issue of confiscation on the table in 1923.
And at the front of the meeting house is Wiremu Kingi, whose refusal to allow the sale of the Pekapeka Block at Waitara was used by the Crown as an excuse to attack.
“Not only Wiremu Kingi but the doors to the meeting house will be open and the other tupuna will be able to peer out the door, Titokowaru at the back, one of the main pou of the house, he will be able to see the table as well,” Mr Knuckey says.
Te Atiawa expects negotiations to take up to two years.
HAWKES BAY CELEBRATES MAORI-IRISH LINKS
The relationship between Maori and Irish immigrants will be celebrated today in the Hawkes Bay at the annual hui and hooli.
Organiser Dennis O'Reilly says the event has become a must do for the community, who gather at Waiohiki Community Arts Center to see and hear musicians, dancers and storytellers from both cultures reflect on a shared history.
He says the cross cultural approach to St Patrick's day is going down a treat, to be sure.
“It's good fun. It’s about celebrating our differences as kiwis but our unity as a nation, so we’ve got three flags, the New Zealand flag, the Irish flag and the Maori flag,” Mr O’Reilly says.
This year’s St Patricks Day address will be by radio presenter Noelle McCarthy.
CANADIAN EXPERIENCE TO HELP WORLD CUP BROADCASTS
Maori Television will tap into the experience of Canadian indigenous broadcasters to cover next year's Rugby World Cup.
Presenter Julian Wilcox says at the Second World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network in Taiwan last week, Canada's Aboriginal People's Televison Network reported on its experience covering the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 10 languages.
Maori Television is sending programmer Haunui Royal to Canada to learn what he can from the Aboriginal People's Televison experience.
VOICE FOR TIKANGA IN SCIENCE DROWNED
Green Party Maori spokesperson Bevan Tipene Matua has drowned while collecting kaimoana near his home at Porangahau in the Hawkes Bay.
Party co-leader Metiria Turei says Mr Matua from Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu was a pou of the party and a strong Maori voice in the conservation movement.
She says his work as a scientist and policy analyst means he was able to make his arguments persuasive.
“He was right on the forefront of working on issues like genetic engineering, those kinds of issues that are really technical and often which the scientific and the Pakeha scientific community dismiss Maori views, dismiss the tikanga and don’t respect the fact that Maori have a strong tikanga analysis that is as strong and as legitimate as any other cultural analysis, like western science,” Ms Turei says.
E te tama purotu o Ngati Kere, moe mai ra.
TARANAKI MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF LAND WARS
It's the 150th anniversary of the start of the Taranaki Wars, and the province is marking the day by making and showing history.
Te Atiawa and Taranaki iwi are signing terms of negotiation to finally settle their claims over the confiscations of the 1860s.
And Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth is turning over its galleries to show the effects of war and colonisation on the region.
Chief executive Bill McNaught says the show aims to challenge some of the understandings of the Taranaki War and show it was about more than land.
“Issues around cultural redress and the fact the language was almost wiped out, the general cultural disrespect, all those issues we’ve tried to explore and it’s only when you understand the complexity of that ht you realise why war broke out and why there is still an incredible challenge in resolving of the legacy of last 150 years,” Mr McNaught says.
Taranaki War, Our Legacy ... Our Challenge will be opened this morning by the Prime Minister
AUCKLAND POLYFEST BIGGEST EVER
The world's biggest secondary schools cultural festival gets under way in south Auckland this morning.
ASB Polyfest spokesperson Dean Wilson says over the next four days 208 culture groups from 65 schools will battle it out at the Manukau Sports Bowl.
That's a big jump from the first festival hosted at Hillary College in 1976, when four schools took part.
He says breaking kapa haka into three divisions means all schools will have a chance, and not just the traditional strong ones like Hato Petera, Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Hoani Waititi, Kahurangi from Auckland Girls Grammar, and Manurewa's James Cook High.
Labels: Bevan Tipene Matua, Maori Television, Polyfest, Puke Ariki, Taranaki Wars, Te Atiawa
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