Stolen Lands | Episode 5: Descendants | RNZ

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Published 2023-05-14
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[PG] In episode five, Chief Moko's descendants fight to have his name cleared and his mana restored.

On 14 May 1991, Tuiringa Mokomoko lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of himself and members of the Mokomoko whanau against the wrongful murder conviction.

Two years later, in 1993, the Crown issued an apology for the 1886 attack on Whakatohea in which property was destroyed and land confiscated.

In 1992, a loosely worded pardon of Chief Mokomoko did not state that he was innocent of the murder of Carl Volkner.

In an attempt to reinstate mana to Mokomoko and clear his name, his whanau fought for a new piece of legislation and the first bill in te reo Māori.

In 2013, the Mokomoko (Restoration of Character, Mana, and Reputation) Bill was passed.

In 2023, a decade on, there has still been no official compensation awarded to Chief Mokomoko's descendants for the loss of his life or their land.

Made with the support of Te Māngai Pāho.

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  • As an one of the many indigenous native peoples who have been subject to colonization, out of natural love and affection for the divine unique collective awareness of the whole of Mankind in total and altogether, I will define for you all the medical and legal definitions that violates your rights as natural living people and generally speaking in layman terminology about how the law literally defines both Colonists and Colonized to be dead arseholes as a colon is a section of the large intestine extending from the cecum to the rectum and colonisation is the process in biology by which a species spreads to new areas. Colonisation often refers to successful immigration where a population becomes integrated into a community, having resisted initial local extinction. The country occupied by the Colonists is called a Colony and a Colony is a union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country, the words Colonist and Colonizer both have meanings closely tied to the word Colonialism in its use referring to domination of a foreign people or area. Colonist, which comes directly from the noun Colony, is the more common—and usually more neutral—term. Colonizer, which comes from the verb Colonise, is used especially in contexts in which the exploitative nature of Colonialism is being discussed or evoked; in phrases like "Coloniser” mindset/mentality" it implies a benefit from or even active participation in that exploitation. A penal colony is a place where prisoners are sent to live. To Colonise is the act or practice of appropriating something that one does not own or have a right to and Colonization, not to be confused with Colonisation (biological) refers to large-scale population movements where the migrants maintain strong links with their ancestors' former country, gaining significant privileges over other inhabitants of the territory by such links. When Colonization takes place under the protection of clearly colonial structures, it may be called Settler Colonialism. This often involves the settlers entirely dispossessing earlier inhabitants, or instituting legal and other structures which systematically disadvantage them. In its basic sense Colonization can be defined as the process of establishing foreign control over target territories or people for the purpose of cultivation, often through establishing colonies and possibly by settling them. In Western European colonies of the Americas, Australia and New Zealand settlers (supplemented by Central European, Eastern European, Asian and African people) eventually formed a large majority of the population after killing, assimilating or driving away indigenous peoples and as “The Right Honourable Chris Hipkins Prime Minister for New Zealand” declared at Waitangi on the 6th of February 2023 that he would like to rectify relations with us Māori. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nw-JmHJU32hCIFkuKeTrkNAdPT1DA7EZ4h8SDLX8nmo/edit?usp=sharing
  • @fordboyzzzz
    Your people should know from the big hui the night before who was responsible & never took responsibility and stood back and let others take the blame.