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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Hebe,
OK - suggest - either publically or via the email link - cheers!
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Islander,
Just as momentary thing: the family house I grew up in was on the corner of Leaver Terrace & Bowhill Road - 160.
It has been demolished.
By cunning & payment, the hall coatpegs were rescued by my brother and his wife, attached to a beautiful driftwood plank that my brother smoothed & oil-polished...and where-ever I wind up, in my final home (Moeraki I trust), I will have a bit of the Chchch home I grew up in, with me & mine, for all the rest of my life... -
Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to DexterX,
My feeling is that at the heart of “it” was spite from Iti that he marginalised himself from Tuhoe elders and other leaders seeking to negotiate a settlement with the crown.
Really?
How quaint.
And your Maori/Tuhoe background is? -
Waua! The life-sustaining life-enhancing creativity powers of ChchCh people!
Anything we can do to help?
Love- Keri -
Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Islander,
People, who have been fighting Maori patriots in the past, have been known to urge for peace between the first & second settler groups.
That may be unclear-
Maori patriots ( and I am thinking of some my tipuna, who went to war against 2nd settlers, then intermarried with them….)that was the old North Island jeer- “We fought ’em, you f***** ’em.”
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to DexterX,
That goes against known history.
People, who have been fighting Maori patriots in the past, have been known to urge for peace between the first & second settler groups.
And I'm not at all sure, Dexter X, that you can actually determine what is in Iti's mind- -
Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Sacha,
A little child shall led them etc.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Bart Janssen,
n fact medicine is a perfect example of the problem we often see, good students who like research but choose medicine because the pay is better.
Unless, like one of the younger members of my whanau, they have a parent who is a GP!
That person has an excellent intellect, and is determined upon a career as a medical researcher… “I am not going to be called at 4 !!*$@! a.m in the morning night after night!”(There are other, familial, reasons for the career path choice as well.)
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
What, advocating peace and unity for the people of Aotearoa and righting some of the wrongs that has been delivered to iwi in the past and suggested present?
I’d welcome that.Kai Tahu have found, over the past 14 or so years since our Treaty settlement with the Crown, that a lot of the hate & outright paranoia about what the tribe would do has dramatically diminished.*
We’ve been open to Pakeha & others coming to our huiatau. We’ve shared our artists’ creations. We have not used our economic clout to skew southern economies. “Mo tatou, me ka uri katoa ai” (as one of the early t-shirts had it – we’ve got a wee bit more grammatical since) is exactly what we are about – up to & including Whai Rawa which helped several of my whanau including me, and which indirectly returns a lot to local communities.( Whai Rawa is a savings scheme which is heavily subsidised by our tribe’s monies. If you’re young (and you can be enrolled *very* young) your savings can only be used for education or first home purchase. Once you become a superannuitant, the tribe no longer
assists your savings (but there are kaumatua grants…)Tama Iti had a different pathway in mind- I think- from Kai Tahu’s vision BUT he was as concerned to make sure the very real wrongs his tribe/s had endured
were compensated for-*There still little waves of backlash/redneckery. I had the pleasure, just last year, of jumping on a young white taxpaying male (he wasnt born here) who said, “Why should we pay anything to you Kai Tahu? We werent even born when the Pakeha arrived. And you’ve got all the good things Europeans brought.** You should be paying us!”
Me: “That land your parents bought for a dairy farm? That was arbitarily confiscated from my greatgrandparents back in the 1880s. It was part of their weka runs, and they thought it was included under the Treaty of Waitangi provisions. Local bodies claimed it for unpaid rates.”My late & much-loved uncle Bill always said, “The missionaries brought us 3 things – the pox, the booze, and the bible. And while we were looking up to heaven, they stole the land under our feet."*
***This was very a Kai Tahu perspective when he was growing up. Mind you, they also brought literacy, which Maori everywhere immediately saw the worth 0f-
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Legal Beagle: Semi-Random election law thoughts, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Do They?