NEW ZEALAND DAY, WAITANGI DAY 2013
Although the spirit of Waitangi Day lies in honoring Maori inclusion as equal business partners with The Crown each day, Waitangi Day celebrations are “to give us a full sense of nationhood” du jour in agreement for all that New Zealanders as a team are trying to achieve.
To stay in agreement with the principles of Waitangi’s foundational spirit (to see others different to ourselves as equals) is the benchmark of respect in New Zealand that our founding fathers and mothers hoped for, when they as intelligent and adventurous people inked a deal to uphold justice – in the concept of communities evolving and being strong trading partners working together for the good of Aotearoa, NZ.
Prime Minister John Key said, he believed Waitangi Day was a valuable opportunity for discussion and stood by his commitment.
“How will history judge [us]? History will judge [us as New Zealanders] well because [we] come back year after year.”
He also urged the iwi [Ngapuhi] involved in the Te Hiku collective to sort out their differences and move toward a settlement, saying it would inject as much as $200 million into an area that greatly needed it.
Ngapuhi has over 20% of the Maori population. Ironically, the tribe is one of the last to settle with The Crown. So, a timely speech from the PM to Ngapuhi.
most photos: Michael Cunningham.
photos: nzh & northern advocate.
Top photo: In a rare display, Te Arawa Iwi’s flag flew too on Waitangi Day.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.2.13~
ADVENTUROUS NEW ZEALAND
irg42 website says: New Zealand is the youngest country on earth – the last major landmass to be discovered. It has a rich and fascinating history, reflecting both our Maori and European heritage. Amazing Maori historic sites and taonga (treasures), some dating back almost a thousand years, are a contrast to many beautiful colonial buildings. A walk around any New Zealand city today shows what a culturally diverse and fascinating country we have become. The Treaty of Waitangi: In 1840 treaty between Maori and the British Crown is New Zealand’s founding document. Today, the Treaty of Waitangi has a major impact on all New Zealanders. The Youngest Country: Only a thousand years ago, Maori became the first people to migrate to New Zealand. Since then, people have come from around the world to settle here. (more…)
TANGATA WHENUA RESEARCH MEDIA TEXTS – CREATIVE KIWIS ART – LIVING IN NEW ZEALAND SIDE-BY-SIDE
“I actually do feel Maori now.”
–comic mocumentary artist, Ben Edwards, on crossing over into the Maori world in creative research mode. Also check out the documentary This way of life@reelartsy.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.1.13~
RARE CULTURAL VIEWS – MAORI TELEVISION STATION 2013 – NEW ZEALAND TV
Maori TV provides a special and rare view of a side to authentic New Zealand life.
Take a voyage to get an insight into New Zealand’s wealth of cultural life at the pic.
Featured image: The Kermadecs
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.12.12~
OLD BIRDS ILLUSTRATIONS & BEST BOOKS – INDIGENOUS BIRDS IN NEW ZEALAND ILLUSTRATIONS
In a singing land of birds named by Maori mothers and fathers we all came to be.
J.G Keuleman illustrated them in watercolored powder on paper. Geoff Norman added a view words for Walter Buller ‘s fan club to J.G’s art depictions.
The hunters had a collecting mania of the 19th century that is evident in a republished NZ book. The point of the book is to get outdoors and see the living wildlife and Te Whanau Manu a Aotearoa. As timeless and beautiful as their original Maori names.
Click on pic to buy a cool book for the grandchildren.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.12.12~
MOTHER KIWI BIRD – RACHEL HUNTER STEALS EGGS TO SAVE THE KIWI FROM EXTINCTION
In Supermodels of Aotearoaland in black gumboots starring as Mother Bird:
It did happen overnight.
Ditching the high heels for gumboots, Rachel Hunter spent a night creeping through the bush to bring a kiwi egg to Kiwi Encounter.
The New Zealand’s Got Talent judge spent half of Monday night foraging around in Maungataniwha Forest waiting for the opportunity to take a kiwi egg from its nest to Rotorua for incubation.
Hunter, who is the patron of Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust, said although it feels “mean” sometimes to take the eggs from their parents’ nest, there was a 95 per cent chance it wouldn’t survive in the wild.
They were “really fortunate” the father got off the egg early at night, around 10.30pm, she said. (more…)
KAURI TREES AS A HARDY SYMBOL OF GLOBAL WARMING LIVING ADAPTORS – NEW ZEALAND
Kauri under threat by selfish overconsumption of air and water: In order to study the affects of global warming on the indigenous kauri tree of New Zealand the Marsden fund is investing in research into that area.
“Auckland University’s Dr Cate MacInnes-Ng has partnered with Aussie and UK researchers to look into the sensitivity of kauri, tanekaha and totara to water stress, comparing water-use efficiency in those trees across different rainfall areas and looking at how particular trees adapt to increasing drought conditions.”
Kauri trees grow in the North Island of New Zealand (mainly). A Brit royal is also named after a famous Kauri tree too. The Marsden Fund has invested heavily into three years of research funding totalling $54.6 million. Good stuff.
As kauri love ridge ranges to grow, in drought they can do it hard. Like kauri, totara demand a lot of light to grow.
“This exciting project will add to our understanding of these three endemic tree species and is crucial to the long-term survival prospects for our kauri forests and other Southern Hemisphere conifers,” Dr MacInnes-Ng said.
Source: The Northland Age.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.11.12~
MAORI LANGUAGE LESSONS START IN ANTARCTICA & ROSS SEA
Maori language lessons have officially started in the Antarctica and The Ross Sea.
Watch clip above to see it in action. Take one of these with you. The Hika Lite App.
Learn the Maori language while in Antartica and being on Ross seas too - in conjunction with learning an Asian language also. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.10.12~
WRITTEN ACROSS OUR SKIES OF CULTURE – STRONG BONDS OF EQUALITY AGREEMENT
As a New Zealand leader Rangi Kuini Wikitoria Topeora had a name the same as Prince Charles‘ great grandma, Queen Victoria.
The two ladies’ signed agreement with each other, 172 years prior, would form the foundation and the spirit of an agreement of economic development that still needs to be recognized and developed more into fruition of shared equality regarding New Zealand’s abundant resources.
I love this painting as a witness of the true spirit of Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s also a symbol of women leaders in New Zealand and Britain being principled and strong leaders.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 26.10.12~
THE MAORI KING MARCHES TO PRESERVE THE MAORI LANGUAGE & TE KOHANGA REO LANGUAGE EDUCATION PODS
It is hearting to witness King Tuheitia, The Maori King, and his family join in marching on Wellington, New Zealand’s capital in a protest hikoi. The protest is designed to show that more should be done to support Maori language education pods in the world.
Of course, that starts at home, in New Zealand. (more…)
A ROCK’S HEART SUNRISE AT COROMANDEL
And hasten to the secret shore where the land’s curve lies. There let the waves lave pleasuring the body’s senses, and the sun’s feet shall twinkle and flex to the sea-egg’s needling and the paua’s stout kiss shall drain a rock’s heart to the sandbar’s booming.
–Hone Tuwhare poetry. Photo: Daniel Peckham.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aoteaeroa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.10.12~
NATIVE KAURI TREES AS A SYMBOL OF A SUPER PEOPLE
When it comes to gift giving, nothing says Aotearoa New Zealand, more so than a native kauri tree.
Every person wanting to be a resident of New Zealand, needs one as a gift.
The kauri tree is a specific symbol of New Zealand’s rare and defining place in the world. Love them! :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.9.12~
DUSTY METAL ROADS OF POETIC FREEDOM – DAME WHINA COOPER & MOKOPUNA PHOTOGRAPH 1975
I must be in a nostalgic Kiwi mood today:
Here’s Dame Whina Cooper, creator of one of the original formats of the reality TV star template for Maori-Kiwis as a highly unlikely action hero. In this photo Dame Whina is walking with her mokopuna (grandchild) on a dusty metal road. She wrote a nation’s narrative with her feet, realigning New Zealand’s future direction to remain within New Zealand’s founding document between Maori and Queen Victoria and The Crown in this 1975 photograph. (more…)
ICONIC MAORI-KIWI REGGAE, HERBS’ LONG AGO & SIR PETER BUCK’S VIKINGS OF THE SUN NEW ZEALAND TRIBUTE ART
New Zealand’s history is rich. Our cultural lore tells of vikings of the Sun who chartered a course to Aotearoa New Zealand over a thousand years ago. Te Rangihiroa, Sir Peter Buck, a Yale associate, wrote of Moriori and Maori adventurous discoveries in the South Pacific.
It is a history New Zealand and true friends of New Zealand are most proud of. Lest we forget. It was Long Ago. Hall of Famers, Maori reggae band Herbs wrote an iconic song about it for the New Zealand pop music charts once. Here’s that song as a tribute to our founding fathers and mothers gifts of navigation to the South Pacific and Asia-Pacific.
Their culture is the longest standing culture of New Zealand. In Herbs music, the opening sound (in the extended version of the song Long Ago) is our distinct sound in the South Pacific. A cultural treasure, very spesh.
Love it! A reminder of how wonderful New Zealand has been culturally for centuries of our ocean navigating peoples, New Zealand’s shared history of Kiwi citizens as one people.
[Photo: Moriori history - Matene Totara Te Retimana left, with famous Maori scholar and global ambassador, Te Rangi Hiroa - Sir Peter Buck. Photo's owner: Steven Retimana, Moriori and Ngati Whatua Maori].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.9.12~
A PUNGAROA WIREMU HILL NATIVE FROND FOR FATHERS DAY – CONVERSATIONS WITH DAD & MY MAORI MOM
Sunday Stories: Dad (& Mum’s) Day:
Yesterday I spent time with my Maori mom. She asked, “do you think I’m strong?”
I was like, “Lady, you are so strong. You are a noble Maori wahine toa woman. You always have been. You have inspired me all through life to remain strong. You do inspire me. And you will probably always inspire me.” Her smile was worth the share. Normally, mom and I mistake each other for jujitsu opponents keeping each other sharp, so seeing her smile made my day.
This morning I phoned dad. “Kia ora dad. You do realize that I’m lucky to be alive don’t you?” His laugh confirming that he got the joke. “Happy father’s day dad. I love you. Thank you for being my dad.” (more…)
LIFE’S SUNRISE FLOWS IN THE VEINS: TE RANGIHIROA – SIR PETER BUCK
Oh navigator, Am-Kiwi Maori father, New York, Hawaii, Ngati Mutunga, Yale scholar, Swedish Order of the North Starman, our peak of Maunga Loa. Your mind a swirling ocean of te aute, Colenso thoughts. Rare exotic-novel man abroad. Medicine man of culture back home. Those forbearing formidable, Polynesian Vikings of The Sunrise always whispering wisdom of life's tupuna flows in the veins.
–Ode to Te Rangi Hīroa, Sir Peter Buck, Kiwi hero.
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Photos: Margaret Wilson and Sir Peter Buck. Sources: & National Libary & Puke Ariki & Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, reference number: 1/2-078259-F, circa 1930.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 1.9.12~
PACIFIC FORUM NEWS – MAORI LEADERS SEEK SEAT ON PACIFIC FORUM COUNCIL’S SOUTH PACIFIC GOVERNANCE PANEL
Te Karere News reports: Maori Leaders are a part of the South Pacific leaders delegation meeting in the Cook Islands at the assembling of the Pacific Forum.
Four iwi leaders including Ngai Tahu’s Mark Solomon, Tainui’s Tukuroirangi Morgan and Ngati Porou’s Selwyn Parata descended onto the Cook Islands ahead of the Pacific Forum’s meet and greet. Te Arawa also sent a delegat. Polynesian heads of state see Maori as having a place on the Polynesian forum made up of countries like Cook Islands, Tahiti, Samoa and Niue. Excellent idea.
Of interest to most people in Asia-Pacific is Maori New Zealand citizens rising role of furthering both entrepreneurial economic development, fisheries and resources kaitikitanga (guardianship), sufficient marine surveillance measures and very importantly, providing valuable insights into culturally appropriate policy and trade agreements concerning Pasifika and Polynesian people of the South Pacific and Asia-Pacific.
If this happens all citizens of the South Pacific will win more fairly in trade deals, why I think this story is wise in protecting all New Zealand citizens and our Island dwelling friends and allied sovereign nations, our children and children’s children’s best interests with long term planning thinking beyond two generations.
Ngahuia Wade conducted the interview in a mix of English and Te Reo Rangatira (NZ’s timeless Language of Chiefs of the South Pacific). Scotty Morrison presents the story. Good stuff.
[Image: Historical image, Snail Mail Post: the Robert Louis Stevenson 7D postage stamp, Western Samoa's literary traditions].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.8.12~
1963 LANDSCAPE THEME AND VARIATIONS: SERIES B
Te Papa‘s latest landscape portrait acqusition, depicting the river of Kiwi art in being ”inextricably linked to landscape and place.”
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.8.12~
SPORTS NEWS: WAKA AMA IVF VA’A WORLD SPRINTS CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS, CANADA
International Sports News: The results for the Waka Ama team rowing World Championships (more specifically: Calgary 2012 IVF Va’a World Sprint Champs) in Canada, are very exciting.
Results are as follows:
Open Men – V6 1500: 1st: New Caledonia (7:29:19). 2nd: Canada. 3rd: California, USA.
The sports event celebrated in vibrant cultural style: A Cultural Night Performance for competing nations saw live performances from Canada, New Zealand, Hawaii, Italy and Rapa Nui.
Full race results can also be viewed at Waka Ama’s NZ website. Woot! Congratulations to all the medal winners. Way kool! What an exciting culture of sport on display on Canadian waters. Tu much!
[Photos Waka Ama NZ]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.8.12~
MAORI WOMEN SAILORS RAPANUI BOUND – CELEBRATE NEW ZEALAND’S LONGSTANDING TRADITIONS OF SAILING NAVIGATION
Currently in New Zealand we are celebrating our fine tradition of Kiwi athletes. One’s that seem to be basking in the media spotlight are our sailors. Indeed, Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie, gave a good interview on a gold medal sailing performance. Kerikeri and Tauranga sailors, Peter Burling, Blair Tuke and Andrew Murdoch also have been inspiring a new generation of youth in NZ as well.
We have sailor Dean Barker whose Team New Zealand campaign for yachting’s America’s Cup is already generating buzz in the sailing world too. And of course, who can forget how adventurer and cultural hero, the late Sir Peter Blake captured the world’s attention and imaginaton when he was alive, alongwith sailor Sir Russell Coutts.
All of the athletes mentioned reflect New Zealanders love of water, oceans, sports and the human ability of Kiwis passion to navigate using the elements.
A news story that sums all of this up beautifully is the story of Maori women onboard a waka hourua (double-hulled canoe) boat that is heading to Rapanui (Easter Island). Te Karere news reporters write: “It’s widely assumed that only men sail on waka hourua, but three women will be joining in on the voyage of two double-hulled waka to Rapanui.” Humble, they reflect too the thousand year standing tradition of New Zealand’s founding mothers who navigated and sailed the same ocean waters as sailors, adventurers and merchant traders throughout the South Pacific’s rich traditition of Maori Polynesian Vikings history and cultural lore. Always capable, they were merhcant parents on the go.
The voyage will take 6-8 weeks on the high seas where the crew will sojourn at Rapanui before our adventurous sailors embark on their voyage home again.
The women are descended from the original Maori and Polynesia women sailors who first discovered Aotearoa New Zealand for us all.
Together we are a fun loving ocean sailing people in New Zealand. Congratulations to all of our fine sailors. Mauri Ora.
Scotty Morrison and Raiha Johns have the story.
Photo sources: Victoria University Wellington, Te Ara.Net. NZH, Stuff Website. Treml.Com. Music: Rod Stewart.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.8.12~
FAMOUS KIWI TYPEWRITERS – AUGUST 2012
An angel@myblog kept writing through the fog. The tap tap tap through the coursing rain, a cowslip's bell reminder: gorse is not people.
–New book. Free ad. Nice one.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pac
ZINZAN BROOKE WOULD MAKE A FANTASTIC MAORI ALL BLACKS COACH & AUCKLAND BLUES ASSIST COACH – ALI IMMS TOO!
The UK did not look after Zinzan Brooke as well as it could have.
[Photo caption: All Black legend Zinzan Brooke (center) is pictured with fellow world rugby players, Percy Montgomery (left) and Josh Lewsey. Photo: NZH.
Breaking news: “Former All Black star Zinzan Brooke and his wife Alison have been declared bankrupt in the UK.
The news was revealed on the the Bankruptcy Orders section on the London Gazette website and refers to the couple’s B & B operation in the English town of Windsor.
Both Zinzan Brooke and his wife Alison, have bankruptcy orders listed.
Brooke is viewed by many as the best No.8 ever to wear the black jersey. He played for the All Blacks between 1987 and 1997, playing 58 tests and scoring 195 points, made up of 42 tries and three drop goals. (more…)
LIVING FOSSIL TUTUKIWI
between the snarling tigers,
the snarky sharks,
the sniffles of whining, emaciated lion cubs,
the snaffling water demands of thirsty elephants,
the stealth of the sniggering snifter snatchers, (more…)
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