Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi

1. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Set Context • A View of the Treaty • Mauke & the Treaty • The Treaty & the Pacific

2. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi Who am I? Who are we? What is my identity? What is our identity?

3. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Do you for example see our ‘Tokelauaness’ in the Treaty? • Can you discern our ‘Pacificness’ within the Treaty?

4. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • As you listern to me think about these concepts • Whakapapa in Maori • Tupu’aga in Samoa • Te Gafa in Tokelau • Akapapaanga in Cook Islands • Kaitiakitanga – Maori for guardianship • Manaakitanga - Care • Aroa – Love, note our greetings, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Kia ora, kia orana - life • Tu Tangata – standing tall • Connections • Genealogy • Ancestors • Legends • Principle & values

5. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Imagine way back prior to & including 1840s - Unspoilt forest stands of Kauri, Totara, Rimu, Kahikatea - Forest rich with ferns of differrent varieties - when the Moa & other birds like tui, kereru, roamed & populated the forests

6. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • When the beaches were beaches full of wet & dry native wood • With a plentiful supply of cockles & pipis and you don’t have to go digging for them • Certainly plenty of toheroa if you are up north like Levin and the White sandy ninety Mile Beaches of Northland and no permits or waiting for higher authorities to say you can go get your ten for the day • Beaches around Poneke where you can catch snappers from a line thrown of the beach

7. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Imagine being on your own island where there were about 200,000 of you all around Aotearoa • All of you descendants of the Seven Canoes, Takitumu, Tainui, Tokomaru, Kurahaupo, Aotea, Te Arawa, Mataatua, • With your own functional social structures and systems,

8. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Why would anyone want others – strangers for that matter to govern them? • What was the most likely scenario given what we know about ourselves?

9. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Protocol around hosting visitors • Gifting

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11. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of WaitangiPeople exercise to fill in note comparisons & comment

12. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • We have a relationship with Tangata Whenua – at a more intimate/deeper level than the Treaty • Crown & State Bureaucracy is another set of relationship - functional

13. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Our Practice in the future - An understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi – the Nations Founding Document - talk about what being: - Indigenous - Bi-cultural - Multi-Cultural really means

14. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi • Our Practice in the future - “Culture First” – (my original IP) defined as: - Who are we – Identity - Cultural Diversity - Cultural Evolution Te Atua te Aroa, kia manuia.

15. Pacific Communities & The Treaty of Waitangi Va’aomanu Pasifika – Pacific Samoan Studies, Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs in association with the Human Rights Commission Presentation for Symposium 17 Nov 2006 Rutherford House, Lambton Quay, Wellington Apii Rongo – Raea Adviser in Engagement, Business Management & Strategic Thinking