The Tuhoe people of the Urewera region have suffered since a Crown invasion and persecution from the 1860's. It is January 16th 2005 Sunday in the Ruatoki valley. A Waitangi Tribunal hearing has been called. Tuhoe are waiting to meet the visitors many are on horseback. Determined to remind the Crown of these many wrongdoings, Tuhoe have come out in force.
A young Tuhoe tribesman, tino rangatiratanga flag in hand, riding a horse bareback, gallops down the valley to where the Crown is waiting reminiscent of times of when prophet-warrior Te Kooti rode thru these tribal lands during his armed-guerilla campaign to save Maori lands from an increasingly greedy British settler population. The flag flutters a symbol of resistance against colonisation and the Crown sponsored theft of indigenous lands.
Dozens of Tuhoe on horses follow behind him.
The Crown is carried by horse-drawn cart across the 'aukati line' or confiscation line toward Tauarau Marae at Ruatoki, they are greeted by 600 chanting Tuhoe. Those on horseback have begun a tirade of insults and curses.
Another tribesman appears from the sidelines he has a burning banner in his hand. - He yells "Haere mai! Kei te hiakai a Tuhoe!" -which roughly translates as- "Come here! Tuhoe is hungry"
Five cars lying on their sides about 100m apart on alternate sides of the road are set alight as the horse-drawn procession approaches the line.
Bonfires are lit between the cars. These ahi-cars symbolise a re-enactment of when the Crown practiced a scorched earth policy in the area during the 1860s. A policy which saw an invasion of Tuhoe where many were killed, exiled, arrested, with villages razed to the ground.
There is graffiti on the cars with slogans like - 'Return stolen lands' and 'Ropata Wahawaha scumbag' a reference to Ropata Wahawaha a Maori who fought on the side of the crown against Maori during the 1860s Land Wars.
It is obvious to all that the tribe, Tuhoe, is angry and rightly so.
Kaiwero-challengers are gathered at the confiscation line smeared with mud, many of these naked male warriors and semi-naked warrior women are adorned with ta-moko. The hated confiscation line was established after the 1865 killings of the Reverend Carl Volkner at Opotiki and Government agent James Fulloon at Whakatane, but was said at the time to be in response to rebellion. This resulted in the 200,000 hectare Urewera National park and other parts of the eastern Bay of Plenty being illegally confiscated by the Crown.
Guns shots reverberate around the gathering adding to the atmosphere of this highly charged crowd. Manawa-wera and other types of haka also boom down the Ruatoki valley from the confiscation line. The authorities frown on the use of guns at traditional gatherings but this is Tuhoe country. The gun is not an uncommon addition at traditional gatherings in these parts.
Well known Tuhoe figure Tame Iti steps before the Haka party and delivers a whakapohane, a baring of the buttocks, a number of the haka party make further gestures of defiance.
The procession continues where there are traditional challenges issued from every marae on the way to Tauarau Marae. There Tame Iti ceremonially shoots the New Zealand flag the rituals of encounter continue for some time and then are over.
Later Tame Iti later elaborates "We wanted them to feel the heat and smoke, and Tuhoe outrage and disgust at the way we have been treated for 200 years,"
"(The Crown) destroyed people's homes and burned their crops and we wanted them to feel that yesterday. We wanted to demonstrate to them what it feels like being powerless."
"The confiscation and subsequent colonisation have had a devastating effect on Tuhoe over the past 100 years."
On reflection bystander Iri Akarana-Rewi of Ngapuhi said "Maori culture has lost something, it has become catalogued and contained on performance stages at kapa haka festivals, Tuhoe have taken it off the stage and used it to challenge the powers that be and here it is where it should be in all its honest intensity, in the valleys, on the roads and streets a functioning part of everyday life.
My uncle once said that the struggle of people against power was the same as the struggle of remembering against forgetting.
Today Tuhoe has chosen not to forget, today Tuhoe has shown us the way."
gallery of images
www.aocafe.com/forums/album_cat.php
interview with Ati Teepa (video quicktime)
aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/vids/tuhoeclaims.mov
right-wing pakeha/white media (video media-player)
tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/468986
profiling Tame Iti
aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/he/tame.html
info on Te Kooti
www.aocafe.com/te_kooti/
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We use the whole of the brain - not the dot he's inherited - he can't take himself out of that square. He's jailed in it - that's why he uses this site to show US how really H.A.N.D.I.C.A.P.P.E.D THE POOR FELLOW IS - WE OF MAORIDOM SEND OUR COMMISSERATIONS TO YOU THEIR OUR FOREIGN BROTHER!'TWO HOLES IN THE MIDDLE WITH A SEEEEVIN
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We use the whole of the brain - not the dot he's inherited - he can't take himself out of that square. He's jailed in it - that's why he uses this site to show US how really H.A.N.D.I.C.A.P.P.E.D THE POOR FELLOW IS - WE OF MAORIDOM SEND OUR COMMISSERATIONS TO YOU THEIR OUR FOREIGN BROTHER!'TWO HOLES IN THE MIDDLE WITH A SEEEEVIN
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007 is a wally
chur
winnie
Re: The Ruatoki valley blazes as Tuhoe stands tall
ki te tuohu koe me maunga teitei.
KIA KAHA TUHOE
TINO RANGATIRATANGA
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007 is a fool
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i am only 14 and only now i have found out i am a moko of the great tuhoe toa who fought for their lands and freedom, its about time we showed them what tuhoe is all about.
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Tino pai rawa atu Tuhoe mo Otautahi.
I have passed this story around to many of your whanau down here and their message to home is we wish the hell we could have been there. It has been too long in the coming and how can the hurt be swepted under the mat.
As a Tauiwi I am totally blown away by you Tuhoe. Not surprised, because I know a little about Tuhoe. Thanks for all those who were involved in bringing this story not only to Tuhoe and Maori katoa but so white New Zealand so they can sense some of where maori are and want to be. Kia kaha te Mana o Tuhoe, E tuu kaha mo te reo,te tikanga,te whenua, nga tipuna,nga mokopuna.
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2hoe
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Now we must unscramble the egg. I humbly suggest that, as each individual on this planet is the result of a happy meeting between a particular sperm and a particular egg, odds millions to one against, none of us would be here if history had been minutely different before our personal conception. Biology is reasonably sure about that. Same egg, different sperm, different person, no you or me. Split second timing required. So there would be other Cornishmen, Zulus, Inuit, even Maori, justifiably angry about inexcusable past injustices by us, but just not the staunch folk we have now. This is not popular with tribal and national historians, I admit. It also means that all the people born on this planet since our own conception are partly our own creation - the children of all of us.
Pax, so we can tend the garden? Please just take back your fair share, as much as you can manage. I have trouble keeping the weeds out of my few acres, but maybe its easier in the Land of the Wrong White Crowd, which I think is your traditional name for your very beautiful islands.
PS, thanks for the Taupo trout. I got it with a spear, out of respect.
Re: The Ruatoki valley blazes as Tuhoe stands tall
Now we must unscramble the egg. I humbly suggest that, as each individual on this planet is the result of a happy meeting between a particular sperm and a particular egg, odds millions to one against, none of us would be here if history had been minutely different before our personal conception. Biology is reasonably sure about that. Same egg, different sperm, different person, no you or me. Split second timing required. So there would be other Cornishmen, Zulus, Inuit, even Maori, justifiably angry about inexcusable past injustices by us, but just not the staunch folk we have now. This is not popular with tribal and national historians, I admit. It also means that all the people born on this planet since our own conception are partly our own creation - the children of all of us.
Pax, so we can tend the garden? Please just take back your fair share, as much as you can manage. I have trouble keeping the weeds out of my few acres, but maybe its easier in the Land of the Wrong White Crowd, which I think is your traditional name for your very beautiful islands.
PS, thanks for the Taupo trout. I got it with a spear, out of respect.
Re: The Ruatoki valley blazes as Tuhoe stands tall
Choice alright!!!
Such kai for our spirits, that spirit of resistance and independence within te iwi maori katoa.
You guys rock!!!!!
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Nope I saw it too, what the news didn't show was the same man later appologising to the horse and telling the horse he was actually aiming at the 'crown representatives'.
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007 is in denial about the land theives, who stole to get their big huge houses, cars, and whatever else.
007 forgets that many cannibals existed in Europe too back in the medievil days. Not to mention the "animal-loving" practices bought with them when they entered Aotearoa.
To this day they are still trying to hybridise with animals (as in farmer joe and daisy the cow) through genetic engineering.
Re: The Ruatoki valley blazes as Tuhoe stands tall
My Tuhoe heritage extends from Tamakaimoana at Maungapohatu to the Waimana Valley; to Ngati Rongokarae ki Ruatoki; Te Whanau Pani ki Te Kahikatea; Ngai Turanga ki Kutarere me Te Whanau a Tairongo ki Ohiwa Moana; me Tuhoe Potiki ki Rotorua ara ki Mataatua. As a member of the Tuhoe tribe, I recall what an honour it was to grow up and be brought up in the midst of senior leaders of the Tuhoe Tribe. Ara, ko Te Rangihau tera, ko Piki tera, ko Te Haukainga tera, ko Te Kari tera, Ko Poai tera, ko Tipi tera me te maha atu. The leadership status of these men was not only attributed to the lineage from Tuhoe Potiki but owing to the fact that they were men of the faith - men whose same ancestors took refuge in the gospel brought to them by Te Kooti Rikirangi. As a child I recall a dedicated committment by elders to the recitation of scripture committed to memory morning, noon & night - a devotion to the creator of all to bring salvation to a people dispossed - a legacy for future generations. As well as this there was un unwaivering devotion to the retention of Tuhoe oral histories through the recitation of chant, waiata, haka & manawa were of which are still a part of me today for the purposes of my identity - I will always understand their past but I choose not to live in it. Both my father (Te Whanau Pani/ Kurikino) and mother (Upokorehe/ Whakatohea) were betrothed by kuia bearing the kauae. As matakite of their tribes, they were to see the benefit of such union through the sharing of resources and allegiances to each other through the teachings of Te Kooti. Approximately 200 people died of starvation in Ruatahuna during the bout of crusades undertaken by the Government in accordance with the scorched earth policy towards the end of the last century. Hence my mothers people were able to support those who survived with the abundance of kaimoana from Ohiwa & Te Ahi Aua ki Waiotahe - they never ever spoke of the ill-treatment given them in the past as they did not want us to bear that burden - but as I continue to understand all that they did for us in order for us to retain our identity in a modern world - I am grateful to God to be alive today. My family continue to be a part of this inheritance and many generations to come will also be befactors of this divine union; which brings me finally to my point -
1. What legacy are we wanting to leave behind to our children? That the only way for Tuhoe to survive is to hold unforgiveness towards the Kawanatanga. We can't change the past - but we can change our future. Basically all it comes down to is a choice. I want my tamariki & mokopuna to have the best of both worlds and to be proud of their Tuhoetanga. Not to carry on another century of hurts & grievances of past generations. Ultimately the only ones holding ourselves back are ourselves. I implore you my people - make a choice that will impact the future of your uri - ko ratau nga rangatira mo aapopo.
2. What sort of leadership do we as descendants of Tuhoe aspire to in this day in age? To bare my arse on National Television smothered in mud and slinging profanities is hardly what I'd call honorable! Come on people - the guerilla tactics of yesteryear are for the Osamas of this day & age - my back yard would be the last place I'd ever expect to see such carry on! If this is the sort of leadership you want your children to aspire to - then I am afraid our iwi is destined for disaster.
Our tamariki need positive role-models who are able to help them achieve all that they can in their lifetime here on earth - and to develop the potential that they posess.Our tamariki shouldn't have to wield the name Tuhoe with shame. I'm over seing my tipuna's name in the headlines & connected with spitting, arse-bearing and paua poaching. It's bloody shameless! You learned ones represent yourselves not me nor my family or those who have gone before me.
3. He aha te mana motuhake o Tuhoe? It's time to sit down and wananga what this really means. Is it to live independently of our foreign counterparts or is it to encourage our uri to uphold the most intrinsic parts of our Tuhoetanga whilst pursuing those things of this age that will not ultimately benefit our people but others and our future generations. Ki a hau na - it's time to give (moumou kai; moumou taonga; moumou tangata ki te po) and let's lose the slave mentality; the poverty mentality and the broken arse mentality. Get hard! Get over it! Get off our arses and make some serious changes - let's stop blaming everyone else for a change and take a bloody damn good look in the mirror at the fulla staring back and be honest - whose in control here?
Heoi hai korero whakamutunga - e kiia ana nga karaipiture "He honore, he kororia, he maungarongo ki te whenua, he whakaaro pai ki nga tangata katoa." For those of us who have limited understanding of the Word this means exactly what it means: Glory & honour to God, peace upon the earth & goodwill to all man kind." You don't have to read between the lines folks: I think our kuia & koroua knew what they were talking about everytime they opened up for karakia. I am believing for you Tuhoe: and praying for you also.
Re: The Ruatoki valley blazes as Tuhoe stands tall
What the Tribunal went through is nothing compared to what my tipuna suffered when the Colonising Government implemented the SCORCHED EARTH POLICY(Te Urupatu)
Much respect to Indigimedia for their artical.
As my nephew said: "Haere mai! Kei te hiakai a Tuhoe!" -which roughly translates as- "Come here! Tuhoe is hungry"
"Toku ora toku Tuhoetanga". . .TUHOE. . . . AU. . . . AU. . . . AU
Na te Kaiwhakahaere mo "Nga Tamariki o te Kohu"
HAU PAIMARIRE
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I for one am proud, that for once OUR voice was heard. I am glad that they FEEL our heat, our mana, our love, and the feeling of hate when they burnt MY tipuna and pushed others towards the manemanerau. Like how people now feel about murderers in prison, is how I will feel towards pakeha colonialists who burnt my ancestors - murderers. I may have adapted to the life we live now, but I will never back down to being heard!
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aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/vids/tuhoeclaims.mov
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Let us ask that ex-KGB biological weapons scientist the Health Department has employed to give us a few tips. Honk honk.
Glory be to her Gracious Majesty.
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TUMEKE TUHOE!!!!!!
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Seems youre the only one thats sitting there pissing your pants thinking about that senario dumble-oh 7, can't you tell after 30 something posts that people are not taking you seriously, try fucking right off with that victorian colonial horshit to a website where people deeply care about your opinions, say www.stormfront.org ?
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aroha nui ki a koutou
good on you all
i wuz just looking at the pitchures n thought 2 myself WOW anyway
ka kite
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I can see that when that glorious day comes when this country returns to Maori rule, I am going to have to boil you for a few days in a pot with a brick. Then throw you away and eat the brick!
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>>2H03 NATION<< cummin atcha!!
Proud to be Tuhoe
Firstly, Tuhoe never signed the Treaty. Tuhoe are exempt from any colonial derived legalities. As it stands, Tuhoe is a Sovereign nation. The fight of Tuhoe is not "sudden" it has not reared its head in 2006 in the ta moko of Tame Iti. Tame Iti is representative of Tuhoe Independence. He does not have to dress in a suit, put make up over his ta moko and step into a board room to fight for Tuhoe rights. Tuhoe IS right. No Treaty, no alliance, independent sovereignty. Lest we forget that Tuhoe was punished for not signing that Treaty and for also helping the Freedom Fighters during the Maori Land Wars (oh excuse me, the more politically correct term now is NEW ZEALAND LAND WARS). Tuhoe punishment was to have land taken from us. As you go through Ruatoki, you step back in time. Though the houses look more modern and you may even see the odd sky digital dish, the people are still in another era, preserving and maintaining the mana which has now become famous (for some, infamous) to Tuhoe. Te Reo is the language of Ruatoki, from the people to the animals. Tame Iti is highlighting to anyone that will look, the strength of Tuhoe to fight for the right of autonomy, using MAORI methods, not pakeha. Tough shit to those who lack the understanding.
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Ko te kuupapa he kai na te KURI!!!!!!!!
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well when i look at it we (Tuhoe) did not sign the treaty so we shouldnt have to follow the laws in the treaty just because everyone else signed it.full stop.thats it.the end.
>..TUHOE HARD OUT..<
!(..TUHOE KI RUATOKI..)!
big outs to all mi cuzys RUATOKI, MURUPARA, RUATAHUNGA, WAIOHOU, TANEATUA, WAIKAREMOANA and from all ova da motu. c u'z at the ahurei.
!!<..YEI! YEI!..>!!
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im proud to be tuhoe
im proud to be maori.
he whanui kotahi he whanau kotahi
tuhoe stand proud.
where our name with pride
tuhoe ki ruataahuna me tw waimana
te kotahi a tuhoe kata te po..
cheerz
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Tena Rawa Atu Nga Uri o Ruatoki....
I believe that Tuhoe will lead other iwi and hapu to do the same thing (brew up a storm about the whenua)It is our whanaunga like Tame Iti nd Te Weeti who feed the ahi to fight against the government and it is the people of the Tuhoe Nation that backs it up!! We Aint Scared of Government Laws becoz thy change them just to keep us down, so we dont proress with the economy! How the fuck are we gonna progress with our resources if the government change the laws every 5 minutes??? One Rule For Them And 10 million Rules For Us Maori!!! Give It Up You Political Dick Heads!! WE WANT OUR WHENUA BAK!! and that is to say; SO WE CAN NURTURE AND CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT... Global Warming has been bestowed upon us becoz of how dirty the white man treat thier environs. The land will be given back when the land is distroyed!!
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WE GOT HERE B4 YOUZ DID.
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Wisdom not war.......
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IF U DON'T LIKE WHERE I COME FROM THAN THATS YOUR OPINION.
BUT IF YOU CAN ONLY SEE THE WAR AND HATERED THAN U MISS OUT ON ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPEN THERE!!
E.G. THE TUHOE FESTIVAL. WHERE ALL THE TRIBES OF TUHOE COMBINE AS 1!!!
SO IF U DON'T LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING THAN GO DOWN THERE AND DO SOMETHING.
IF NOT !!THAN SHUT YOUR TRAP!!
!!TRESPASSERS WILL BE EATEN!!
!!TE MANA MOTUHAKE O TUHOE!!
!!TUHOE KI RUATOKI!!
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TUHOE FOR LIFE
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go the tuhoe
R.e tuhoe 4 life and we stand as one
Ko Mataatua te waka i hoea mai i hawaiki nui, hawaiki roa, hawaiki pamamao
Ko Papueru,Mataatua me Tataahoata nga marae
Ko Ruatahuna toku Turangawaewae
Ko Maungapohatu te Maunga KARANGARANGA
Ko Whakatane te awa kopikopiko
Ko tuhoe te iwi
i think that us Tuhoe should stand tall all the time with thier head high and proud to be Tuhoe.
tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe tuhoe for life
God Defend New Zealand
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