Kia
ora whanau - a few years ago a letter was written by Barrie
Gibson, to the editor of the Manawatu Evening Standard,
in it Mr. Gibson raved on saying he'd had enough of Maori
claiming ownership of 'everything'. He stated that "you
want the foreshore, you want the forest, your want the fish,
you want the oil, you want the gas, you want the land, you
want me to support your whanau, your iwi.... give you extra
health and education funding, and not to criticize you or
yours." A response, by my wife, Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule,
quickly followed which I feel needs to be republished. If
you would like to view Mr. Gibson's initial letter click
here.
While you're at it, if you are taking back YOUR KFCs, McDonalds
and fast food chains could you also take back YOUR heart
disease, obesity and diabetes? If you are going to take
back YOUR pubs, breweries and TABs could you also take back
YOUR gambling, alcoholism and tobacco (along with YOUR lung
cancer and emphysema)? Together with YOUR cars and trucks
could you please take YOUR car exhaust emissions, respiratory
illnesses and road toll?
If you're taking YOUR homes could you please take YOUR
overcrowding and unsafe, substandard housing? Why on earth
would you abandon YOUR gorse? Considering it was YOUR ancestors
who desired a bit of ole Bonny Scotland and instead laid
the foundation for a ghastly and dreadful weed to take root
in this lovely land consuming and destroying the indigenous
vegetation (goodness much like YOUR colonisation) and please
don't leave YOUR possums (or rabbits, stoats and thar) as
they are devouring native trees, plants and birds by the
mouthful and contributing to the general destruction of
our ecosystem.
Take YOUR beef and mutton but don't forget YOUR greenhouse
effect causing methane gas, YOUR erosion and YOUR lake destroying
fertilisers.
It all got me thinking since you are in such a tizzy can
you please take back YOUR pure methamphetamine, YOUR marijuana,
YOUR ecstasy and YOUR heroin. YOUR people brought them in,
supplied them, and profited nicely from their sale. Oh and
please take YOUR Judaeo-Christian religion which shattered
traditional holistic belief systems and allowed YOUR Salvation
Army minions to sexually abuse children.
Happy to give you back YOUR muskets, YOUR beads and YOUR
blankets put also be so kind as to take back YOUR diseases,
YOUR sexism, YOUR racism and YOUR ageism. Since you kindly
recognised notions of reciprocity then quid pro quo and
return to Tangata Whenua Maori the billions of dollars that
were made during privatization as well as the fraudulent
land grab of the 19th and 20th centuries. Hey and return
the finances from the sale of raw products, sales from the
slaughter of marine animals, the clear cutting of trees,
and exploitation of the oil and gas fields.
You can have the names, easy come easy go. But are you
really asserting that man was made in YOUR image (as your
comments about the apostles clearly demonstrates)? Sorry
to disappoint you but last time I checked the apostles came
from the Canaan region (Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,
Jordan, and the southern portions of Syria and Lebanon)
and not the middle of Essex. Hardly the epitome of the British
Empire, unless you are making a claim to the Holy Land as
well?
But in contemplating your overzealous reclamations it has
occurred to me that most of these belongings are not even
YOURS. I understand that your inane and unjustified sense
of superiority leads you to believe that you are the progenitor,
the creator, the architect of all things, however this defies
known fact.
The US can take credit for the KFCs and McDonalds (and
most of the other fast food chains). Better check your facts
DB Breweries is owned by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited
(a Singaporean Company). The cars and trucks had their genesis
in the United States, Germany, Japan and are now mostly
imported from Australia and Japan. Speaking of Japan they
can lay claim to the technology that facilitated the development
of TVs, DVDs, PlayStations, fridges, and washing machines
and have largely contributed to their manufacture and distribution,
most of the petrol is sourced from the Middle East and of
course since James Hardie Pipelines was acquired by Crane
Group Ltd (Australians and the Dutch) in 1998 you can't
really lay claim to that either. Sorry can't take the plumbing
as Mico Wakefield Group (a leading" distributor of
metals, fasteners, plumbing supplies and pipeline systems)
was similarly acquired by the Crane Group.
Nice to try and claim clothing considering most of it is
imported from China. Good you didn't try and claim the phone
system considering the majority of Telecom and Clear shareholders
are Ameritech Holdings and Bell Atlantic Holdings Ltd (both
US companies). Goodness and you thought you could take the
newspapers but considering that both YOUR newspaper The
Manawatu Evening Standard and New Zealand's largest media
company (INL) are owned by Australians you'd better think
twice before doing so.
Considering that YOUR people have sold most of what you
consider to be YOURS, you can go (in fact I insist), but
keep in mind that you don't have much left to take. The
thing to remember is that Tangata Whenua Maori NEVER gave
up their full exclusive and undisturbed possessions of their
Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties.
It was YOUR people who did that.
Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule
Issue 9 - Competition: Thanks
to all who entered in our competition, the response was overwhelming.
We asked our readers to email us their favorite Maori Television
programme. The majority of you liked Korero Mai the most,
with Marae DIY receiving a mention. So it is with much joy
that we congratuate the following:
Ngati Porou Hauora Scholarships 2005 which are available
nationwide close 4 April 2005. Contact Peggy Pardoe
by email
or phone: (06) 864 6803 ext. 831
The annual Raukura Hauora o Tainui Hikoi Hauora will
be held on 9 April at Mangere Bridge, Auckland. The
event promotes smoke-free activities for the whanau.
Entertainment, stalls, prizes and displays from other
health provider and begins 10am. For more information
contact contact Melissa Wong on (09) 270 3499
The National
NCHW Hui 2005 will be held between April 12 to 15
at Gisborne Hotel, Tairawhiti. The hui is hosted by
Te Whiringa Trust, all interested Maori Community Health
Workers are invited to attend the hui. Based on the
2003 MCHW Hui and the 12 MCHW Regional Hui held in 2004,
the kaupapa for the 2005 Hui are:
A national body for
MCHWs and its role
Regional representatives
and their roles
A MCHW Competencies
Framework
Future development for
MCHWs
A report proposing a
way forward for the professional development of MCHW
will be available to those that have paid their registration
fees.
Special guests include the Hon. Tariana Turia (keynote
speaker); The winners of the Super 12 Kapa Haka, Turanga
Ararau; Dr. David Tipene-Leach. Contact
Brigham Anderson by email
or phone (09) 6236430 Costs: $200 after 1 April
includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and entertainment.
Accommodation is not included.
Maori Television's Mitre 10 Marae DIY team has swooped
on the Taranaki coastal marae to put in an adventure
playground, fix up buildings and landscape a garden
with a story. The show's producer and host, Nevak Ilolahia
of Hula Haka Productions,
said Puniho was the only Taranaki marae on the series.
Ms Ilolahia, of Rotorua, said Maori TV's higest-rating
programme always included gathering traditional kai
and stories from an area. "The history here in
Taranaki is very, very strong." The first series
was now being repeated on Maori TV, while the second
series was to be shown in June or July. The programme
airs Sundays at 8pm (Winder, The Daily News, 1 April
2005).
The NZ Herald (2 April 2005) reported that Te Arawa
group Ngati Rangiwewehi's performance at the Edinburgh
Military Tattoo has prompted a flood of racist jibes
to the event's official website. The group was among
several international groups invited to take part in
the 50th anniversary of the event, held in 2000.
However, some disgruntled Scots, concerned that more
non-white performers could be invited to perform at
this year's event, have turned on Maori, labelling them
"savages" and criticising past Zulu and Aborigine
performers. The Edinburgh Military Tattoo forum site
has since been shut down but the following was reportedly
posted:
"...
these are the same Zulus that massacred our soldiers
and civilians at Isandlwana and the others are the same
savages that cannibalised our missionaries in the Pacific
Islands. Both are cultures that have achieved little
in the long history of man and only benefited once they
were colonised under the British Empire."
This
week we'd like to highlight two innovative and cutting
edge Maori businesses. The first is Power
Beat International Limited, an award winning research
and development company and experts in the field of
scientific research and innovation. Their mission is
to design, develop and platform energy efficient engineering
solutions for a better world.
The
other innovative company is Roera Ltd which trades as
MaoriFood.com.
Incorporated on April 1st 1999, and commencing business
on 28th July 2001. Their vision is to supply Indigenous
NZ Herbs to the domestic and international cuisine market.
The company's main focus is to work towards a sustainable
NZ Indigenous Herb Industry. The site is great and provides
"recipes of the month" which can be emailed
to you.
Radio NZ reported that Labour is to target Maori voters
in Australia through its union links. Maori MPs have
recruited a group of Australian union members, who have
been attending Labour's election year Congress in Wellington,
to help boost enrolment and voting among Maori living
in Australia. Maori MPs are expected to make regular
visits to Australia as part of the drive. Meanwhile,
the prime minister says the Maori MPs are positive about
election policy to set a deadline for the lodging of
any new historic Treaty claims. To see some statistics
on Maori living in Australia click here.
It will be interesting to see if other political parties
follow suit. Every vote counts!
Labour set to spend big contesting the Maori sets (NZ
Herald, 2 April 2005). Labour president Mike Williams
said the party was pumping up its campaign war-chest
in a bid to stop the Maori Party threat in the Maori
electorates. He made a plea for increased fundraising
efforts for the Maori seat campaign. "We have established
a budget for our Maori electorate campaign than is bigger
than that of 2002 by a factor of five but we need to
do more." It is believed that the budget so far
for the seven Maori seats is $150,000.
The National
Business Review (1 April 2005) reported that Tariana
Turia's popularity rose a wopping seven points in the
latest NBR-Phillips Fox poll, up to 24% favourability
from 17% in January. It was suggested that the notable
thing about Mrs Turia's rise in this poll is where her
support has come from.
It hasn't come from people who were understandably
unsure about her leadership abilities but are now convinced
she has grown into the role - the number of those "unsure"
was down only one point to 22%. It has come entirely
from those who previously thought Mrs Turia was an unfavourable
leadership figure
If
you have been following the Wananga controversy a very
thought provoking article by Chris Trotter (editor
of NZ Political Review) was published recently
examining the issues. Trotter concludes, "Let all
Maoridom take notice of Wetere's fate. This lies in
store for anyone brave or foolhardy enough to challenge
the dominant political paradigms of the New Zealand
State". For the full text article click here.
For
those wanting more information on WIPCE
(the World Indigenous People's Conference on Education)
be sure to check out their site. Early bird reservations
closed on 31 March and Submission
of Performances (which can be filled out by clicking
on the link) are due by 29th April 2005.
For
those interested in a really innovative idea in the
form of a website check out - The
Next. At the core of the project is the desire to
develop a way of engaging young people in education
processes that reflect where young people are at.The
Next is about ensuring that the voices of the Hip Hop
Community and young people are heard clearly and accurately,
so that those working in the youth sector can better
understand the role that Hip Hop can play in young peoples'
development.
The Next are in the process of developing The
Resource which will be available in July 2005 providing
a framework for exploring four themes that impact on
young people in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand society,
through Hip Hop culture. The following themes will include:
Colonization/Indigenous
issues: What does ‘colonization' mean? How does
it affect the indigenous and immigrant/refugee cultures
of Aotearoa and worldwide?
Role Models: What are Role Models? Role Models can
be positive or negative. General perception of Hip Hop
role models etc
Commercialisation: General Introduction: How commercialisation
(advertising, products, labels, success) affect the
Hip Hop community; attitudes to money; Hip Hop as entertainment
for rich white kids; pros and cons.
Politicisation: Hip Hop as a radical, revolutionary
enterprise. Why it started? Why it resonates around
the world?
If
Hip Hop and Politics are your game then check out the
Urban Think Tank
for the body of thinkers in the Hip Hop Community. Urban
Think Tank Institute is a nonpartisan, community-based
home for a body of thinkers in the Hip Hop generation.
It is the first organization that analyzes and frames
political, economic and cultural issues, particularly
those of concern to people of color, from the perspective
of the Hip Hop generation.
The Waka Ama 2005 National Secondary Schools Sprints
will be held on April 7, 2005 at Lake Okareka, Rotorua.
To view entries click here.
To check out the programme
click here. For more information contact Lara Collins
by email,
phone: 09 630-9260 fax: 09 630-9280 or mobile: 021 273-7096.
The
Tai Tonga 41 OCC Balaena Bay 10km Regatta - 10km/5km
is fast approaching. It will be held at Balaena Bay,
Evans Bay Pde, Wellington on 16 Apr 2005. Costs: $10
per paddler – Senior $5 per paddler – Youth
(aged 17 and under). The Course is 10km and starts at
Balaena Bay south to Shoal Pole post, north to Pt Halswell
lighthouse, west going past Pt Jerningham light house
and to Oriental Bay Fountain and return to Balaena Bay.
Entry forms are available on Waka
Ama's website.
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Kia
ora whanau - a few years ago a letter was written by Barrie
Gibson, to the editor of the Manawatu Evening Standard,
in it Mr. Gibson raved on saying he'd had enough of Maori
claiming ownership of 'everything'. He stated that "you
want the foreshore, you want the forest, your want the fish,
you want the oil, you want the gas, you want the land, you
want me to support your whanau, your iwi.... give you extra
health and education funding, and not to criticize you or
yours." A response, by my wife, Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule,
quickly followed which I feel needs to be republished. If
you would like to view Mr. Gibson's initial letter click
This
week we'd like to highlight two innovative and cutting
edge Maori businesses. The first is 
If
you have been following the Wananga controversy a very
thought provoking article by Chris Trotter (editor
of NZ Political Review) was published recently
examining the issues. Trotter concludes, "Let all
Maoridom take notice of Wetere's fate. This lies in
store for anyone brave or foolhardy enough to challenge
the dominant political paradigms of the New Zealand
State". For the full text article click 
