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This area was never meant to support 18+ million people. Fire resistant native plants replaced by flammable invasive palms, the prescribed burns that Chumash used to stop wildfires were banned. LA is burning because of the hubris of colonialism, & the most marginalized suffer.
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The international dimensions of the Treaty Principles Bill - please share - anyone can send in their written opposition from anywhere in the world. tinangata.com/2025/01/02/pro…
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Polynesians had settled an area the size of Russia before the British could even cross the English Channel. But the anonymous X accounts of this world insist Polynesian civilisation was primitive.
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This came up on my TL yesterday, beyond goals! #TONGANEXCELLENCE 🇹🇴
Maybe as you reconnect w your iwi/hapū/marae/papakāinga etc you can ask yourself - what can I do for them? Before wondering what they can do for you on your reclaimation journey. Because I guarantee there's a tea towel waiting for you at the end of it as well as people willing
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Hey NZ - nobody ever forced anyone to learn Te Reo but every Māori was forced to learn English - this fact alone should tell you who are the racists and who are not
I work in comms and whoever's call it was to cut the beginning of TJ's part in the ABs haka for socials surely thought about the risk of doing that? Whether that comms/socials manager supports Toitū te Tiriti or not, it's a major reputational risk to do that
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Americans: “it’s so cool seeing the haka in nz, i wish we had resistance like that here”
meanwhile, native turtle islanders:
Whoever had a sign that straight up just said 'HŌHA' at the hīkoi, what a way to capture the vibes 👏🏻🤣
I'm feeling the wairua, the anticipation, the significance of today even from Tāmaki Makaurau. Kia haumaru te haere kia koutou e hīkoi ana ki Pōneke i te rā nei. To those of you marching in Pōneke today, go safely. We're all with you. Toitū te Tiriti! ✊🏻
So what's going to happen when the international racists try to email our tweets supporting the hīkoi for Toitū Te Tiriti / the haka in Parliament to our bosses and they find out we either: work for kaupapa Māori, have Māori bosses, work in Māori teams or all of the above? 💀
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Where David thinks he has more knowledge than a wāhine Māori lawyer who specialises in Te Tiriti 🤪
this is why we can't take some non-Māori takes on the haka in Parliament seriously because you look dumb saying 'if you can't verbally debate your ideas' when that haka was communicating very clearly how a lot of us feel but you don't understand it so you post nonsense like this




















