Taurewa Land Occupiers Hopeful of Halting Sale

Saw this on the news last night. Big ups to the Tuwharetoa Iwi.

This is fantastic!!!! With Camp Sovereignty in Boon Wurrung (Melbourne) & The Douglas Creek Reclamation in Canada, and Tuwharetoa standing proud, it goes to prove world over that you cant be much of an Indigenous person without your own land to practice your culture, and sustain your people on.

Kia kaha, kia mau, kia manawanui !!!!
Our whanau salute you.

"SECOND INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF THE WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Adopted by the General Assembly, 22 December 2004
On 22 December 2004, the General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/59/174 for a Second International Decade, which commenced on 1 January 2005. The Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. José Antonio Ocampo was appointed Coordinator for the Second Decade.

The Decade has five main objectives:

Promoting non-discrimination and inclusion of indigenous peoples in the design, implementation and evaluation of international, regional and national processes regarding laws, policies, resources, programmes and projects;
Promoting full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in decisions which directly or indirectly affect their lifestyles, traditional lands and territories, their cultural integrity as indigenous peoples with collective rights or any other aspect of their lives, considering the principle of free, prior and informed consent;
Redefining development policies that depart from a vision of equity and that are culturally appropriate, including respect for the cultural and linguistic diversity of indigenous peoples;
Adopting targeted policies, programmes, projects and budgets for the development of indigenous peoples, including concrete benchmarks, and particular emphasis on indigenous women, children and youth;
Developing strong monitoring mechanisms and enhancing accountability at the international, regional and particularly the national level, regarding the implementation of legal, policy and operational frameworks for the protection of indigenous peoples and the improvement of their lives. "

Tena koutou nga hapu katoa kai raro i nga Kahui Maunga e whawhai tonu ana mo ta tatou whenua rangatira.

I would like to give words of solidarity and support to Ngati Hikairo ki Tongariro; Ngati Tamakana; Ngati Hinewai; Ngati Uenuku; and the many whanau and hapu of Tuwharetoa; Whanganui and Maniapoto who like their ancestors before them Te Kooti Rikirangi; Piki Kotuku; Te Manga; Pehi Turoa; Te Heuheu and many many more fought to protect this last bastion of Maori mana from the erosion of their values by the forces of development and the state armies that would subdue them as their pincer movements worked to the Centre of Papatuanuuku where the lands are located. The whanau kotahi that have occuppied the site at Taurewa since learning during the Waitangi Tribunal hearing in Week Two of the National Park Inquiry have through their strength and tenacity highlighted the unfair processes of landbanking and Treaty sell off that continues while our people seek just recommendations over land wrongfully taken from their control and decision making by successive Crown policy and practices. Furthermore their practices are illustrative of how even the so called Powerful Trust Boards are being ignored by faceless bureaucrats in Wellington from organisations like Landcorp who prefer to promote commercial tendering processes so lands can be placed in the hands of developers in the know. When will these tactics of forced sale and dispossession cease from the crown and its agents.

Ka whawhai tonu tatou

Naku noa
Annette

Way to go whanau of Ngati Hikairo ki Tongariro

kia Maia, Kia toa ,kia manawanui, kia u. ki o taonga tuku iho.

Ngapuhi.

You can make donations to the occupation to
:

Kiwi Bank
Turangi

Taurewa Marae
a/c 38-9005-0065963-00

Kia ora Taurewa Whanau:
First I would like to acknowledge our Kuia and Koro ma and off course to our cuzzies who hold Ahi Kaa at Taurewa Marae. It is whanau like you that make me feel proud to be a Maori, the stance that you our whanau have taken I wish more of our people would take the same approche. If we all stand together we can cut all this bullshit out that Government tries to confuse us with (politics) as we maori are non-political. We are just common people with common Lore not Law. So I say Kia Kaha to you all our whanau in Taurewa.
Kia Toa, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui
I have a question? Where is this so called Trust Board in all of this hiding behind the clown GOVERNMENTS skirt Pea! the same Government New Zealand who have no written Constitution to be treating our people like this. I can see it now our whanau what must be will be and the whenua shall go back to the Tangata whenua of Taurewa.
Here's a suggestion Te Ture Whenua Maori, Maori Land Act 1993/95 is now Statute Law there for our people to exercise and use.
Na mihi nunui kia koutou
Piki Te Ora
Piki Te Kaha
Piki Te Maramatanga

Remember all the whanau that want to help Taurewa with Koha don't be whakama hoatu kia ratou its for a primo good corse. YYYYYEEEHAAAAA Taurewa Marae

fuck you, you idiot, fuck you, get off the net, you fucken ignorant pee-on turd, fuck off to planet mediocrity you obdurate piece of shit, 'hey look my name is john and i just learnt how to use the internet and now i can type 6 words, THAT GIVES ME CARTE BLANC!!! I DONT HAVE ANY BALLS SO I CAN COME ON HERE AND DEMEAN HONEST PEOPLES EFFORT FOR JUSTICE'. you are everything nz that should be flushed down the toilet! FUCK OFF AND FIND A FUCKING SOUL YOU FUCKING TURD!

good to see the kaitiaki of hikairo ever vigilante in the protection of their taonga.kia kah

Kia ora Koutou Ngā Whānau o Taurewa - (Okaukura)
To Uncle Taff, Aunty Daisy, Sharon, Tang, Wayne, Petera, Choc, David, Thomas, Kerry-Ann, Shelley, Walter and anyone else I missed out, thank you for letting us be apart of your day, last sunday.
Ngā Mihi Aroha kia Koutou
Na Jonella, Aadn and Ivary
Kaiwhaiki Pa - Whanganui Awa

Kia Ora whanau,well this is no good to know that there is a lot of NEED for GREED,especialy for the older generation that want us to look up to them now HARDLY!.Manaakitia cuzzies,doing a wonderful job defending the whenua.TRUE BLUE WARRIORS!.Aroha mai kia kaha all good things come to those who care about the future of our mokopunas.

Stop living in the past and perpetuating the grievence mode thinking.. Grow up and catch up or get left behind.. Try adding value to our country instead of allways take take take.. I dont owe you anything...I am Maori and I was born here too!I earn money, buy what I want for my family and pay tax and am proud of it.. You just want to get everything for nothing you lazy useless nogood bludgers!!

real maori

kia ora te whanau o Taurewa and all our supporters,
The winter has been long and harsh but our spirits have been soaring since we returned to our whenua. The snow and gales and rain have not dampened our spirits, we have gathered together, lit our fire and kept each other warm with our stories, our memories, and our hopes of a better future for our children and mokopuna. The consortium of ten people who tried to buy this land have told us they wish to develop a luxury resort and golf course here. They have said there will be waitressing jobs for our children and if we can pay the green fees we will be allowed to play on the golf course. And some of these buyers are maori, admittedly not from here. How could they want so little for our children? These are the children of the original owners! Do you just take 10,000 acres of land and expect the owners to roll over and play dead? Is that what Maori owners are supposed to do? Or do we pick ourselves up and apply for the waiters job? Can the wannabe buyers understand how ridiculous they are? Or does money get in their eyes? We have given so much, (over 750,000 ha), as maori all over this country have, to support those immigrants who could not make it in their own countries. Now they want to see us as slaves. That's not how we see ouselves. We are the people of the rainbow,(Ngati Uenuku), bright and shining and splendid and we can light up the skies on a grey, damp, rainy day. To those who would say to us we are greedy, I say, you have our mountains Ruapehu, Tongariro, Ngaruahoe, Pihanga, and you have our rivers, 22 of them, and you have our lakes, Taupo and Rotoaira, and you have our lands. You cannot have our children or our future, we have drawn a line in the sand.
The Taurewa Whanau Ahi Kaa Committee.
Uncle Taffy, Sharon, Tira, Ton, Didi, and all the whanau

Kia kaha to Dave & Whata who day by day, night by night withstand the freezing tempertures of tongariro & occupy the land to make sure our lands are returned to their righful owners. There should be more braves like the two of you.