This is the second blog in a series about why Maori are not the indigenous people of New Zealand. You can read today’s blog here
Maori Are Not The Indigenous People Of New Zealand (Part 2)
This is the second blog in a series about why Maori are not the indigenous people of New Zealand. You can read today’s blog here
Pleased to see you acknowledge the splendid work of Martin Doutre on the Treaty and the Littlewood Draft. A first class layman historian. Puts some well known proffessionals to shame.
He tells the truth, which is so rare now.
Maori come from Hawaiki and themselves acknowledge they are NOT indigenous to New Zealand. There is a hillock at Cape Reinga that, according to Maori lore and a sign located there, is the departure point for spirits of dead Maori returning home to Hawaiki. QED.
Further when Maori arrived in NZ there was an existing race , the Moriori, which Maori set out to exterminate, driving the few who were not slaughtered , off to the Chatham Islands. Maori arrived in NZ about 1250 AD. , a mere 400 years before Abel Tasman. Maori claims to be NZ’s indigenous race are an out-and-out lie. .UNDRIP DOES NOT apply to them.
Similar “ contrived for purpose “ lies, misinterpretations and misrepresentations are constantly made by Maori activists/ tribal-elite relative to the Treaty of Waitangi , purely for political /self-interest purposes. They too are lies.
Couldn’t agree more Hugh.
Thanks again Julian. I will certainly be watching those videos on Martin Doutre’s work.
The UN with UNDRIP have hijacked the term “indigenous” to mean something more like well established occupiers, as per the UN definition. On that basis Maori certainly fit the definition that NZ has stupidly signed up to. Stupidly, as binding or not it is a source of trouble.
A source of trouble because UNDRIP promotes self-determination by established occupiers that is an entirely unrealistic concept of human rights, based on ideology for which there is abundant historical evidence that it doesn’t work. Effectively proposing the creation of a race based sovereignty within a sovereignty, which always ends in civil war or genocide, for which there are really only two choices to avoid:
1. Split into different sovereign territories.
2. Assimilation (or integration), where the major absorbs the minor over time.
The notion of self-determination by Maori tribes somehow within this sovereign nation apart from being a disaster in the making also of course breaks the ToW contract.
Thanks once again Ron for your insights. This is why we must stop the bus before it goes any further. As you say, the end of the road will be a disaster.