This is a powerful performance of the Ka Mate haka, a traditional MÄori dance composed by NgÄti Toa rangatira TeĀ Rauparaha - it's internationally known because the All Blacks (national Aotearoa rugby team) perform it before games.
When you watch this, please also understand its context.
The ramification of Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke leading this haka was censure and a temporary suspension.
Expressing her outrage and challenging the injustice of the Treaty Principles Bill being presented and moving into its first reading - in a traditional MÄori way - was deemed a "disgusting" disruption by the Speaker of the House.
This is about a Bill that, alongside other steps that the government has taken over the last year, seeks to undermine Maipi-Clarke's culture, and her language, and her right for self-determination and sovereignty in Aotearoa, and her ancestors' involvement in fighting for these rights.
The Treaty Principles Bill dishonours the decades of hard-won progress that has been made in Aotearoa, and Seymour's talk of "equality" in Aotearoa fails to take into account the multi-generational harms that colonisation has wrought on MÄori, the colonial systems which continue to disadvantage MÄori, and the institutionalised racism that they have to overcome every day.
I'm pretty darn sure I know what the disgusting thing is here, you know?
If you can, please turn up to the nationwide hīkoi to demonstrate your support for te Tiriti and itks principles.
PÄkehÄ, tauiwi - we are tangata Tiriti. We are here because of te Tiriti. We need to be marching alongside MÄori at this hÄ«koi. This is about all of us.
https://toitutetiriti.co.nz/
Please sign the petition opposing the Treaty Principles Bill. You can do this from anywhere.
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill
Please share and amplify the hÄ«koi organisers' and other MÄori voices about what NZ govt's actions mean for our future.
And please keep an eye for the next activations.
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