Insights From Social Media: 22 Mendacious Modern Part-Maori Myths

From the archives of 1law4all 

1. The Maoris are indigenous to NZ.

Wrong. Unlike the Indians in North America and the Aborigines in Australia, who have been on their land for tens of thousands of years, gaggles of Maoris arrived in New Zealand about 1250 A.D. a mere 400 years before Abel Tasman. At Cape Reinga there is a hillock that, according to Maori lore and the accompanying sign, the spirits of dead Maoris leave from on their journey home to Hawaiki, thus showing that even the modern part-Maoris don’t believe that they are indigenous.

Mike Butler: Maori Party objects to 1law4all

1Law4All gained registration as a political party last week, the fourth new party to be registered in New Zealand this year. The Maori Party objected to the 1Law4All logo saying:

Our objection to this logo is that it is offensive to both Maori and non-Maori New Zealanders who respect the Treaty of Waitangi, because it is based on a political ideology which falsely proposes the abrogation of the law that relates to indigenous rights and property.