Investigating the Māori Revolution 

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5.27 wife quickly jumping in before the husband says something stupid😂😂😂

The real crime is creamed paua and chips for $20, tuwharetoa and we got the tree lords deal, haven't seen a cent, no biggie

If nothing else jumping off the wharf is a universal human experience in Northland

Gang members shouldn't be walking around talking about Maori empowerment when they deal with drugs that disproportionately affect low income families and people which are majority Maori and pacific islander.

Good lord!!! Sad to hear what fellow NZ think about Aotearoa. And 2 of them sounded fresh off their ships.

The land doesn't belong to us, we belong to the land. We are the land and the land is us.

The last minute, that edit was 🔥🔥 Quality reporting guys, well done.

Great Journalism thankyou. As a Maori Matua I couldn't believe the victim mentality. My mother is like that, she has a brand new home which she owns, heatpump, all the bells and whistles, and I have to remind her on occasion what she has, rather than listen to her complain about what she doesn't have. She's in her 80s, Maori and has everything she needs. But she can play the victim, and I don't put up with it.

Thankyou for this awesome vid guys. I am so grateful to have grown up around Maoritanga as a Pakeha.

is there any chance to see the full interviews

Awesome video my brother🎉🎉🎉😢😢😢 thanks so much for making this

you lads do incredible work

Another fantastic video, keep up the amazing work! I was shocked at the fella on the beach saying he reckons Maori would have died out if it weren't for colonization, as if the Maori didn't know how to live off the land! Some textbook white saviour complex there...

We can not deny the fact we have walked in the shoes of white mans society for 200 years and i am calling myself to task to make sense of this type of activism, as of today we have way too much mixed blood both on my pakeha and maori side to believe we should co govern , my concept to which i think makes more sense is an equitable partnership governance, where maori are consulted on what affects us ,as well as our mixed blood relatives outside new zealand and within ,,,,,i do believe that the wrongs written within the interpretation of the treaty be addressed maori was deceiced by the colonisers but not the crown ,wakefeild was a criminal yet he was still with the backing of rich people able to confiscate land from maori using our rebelllion as a sign of defiance against the queen ,yet the queen herself gave assurance within that treaty that maori could live in peace" te rongo me te ata noho "which is written into the preamble of that text, but if you look at those assurances against what they actually gave us speaks volumes to the deceptions perpetrated on maori,,,,so what did those colonisers give us ,this was alcohol addiction ,tobacco addiction,debauchery syphilis, gonerea ,typhoid ,scurvy,and the flu ,these were not the protections of an intergrated system. Of power sharing ,but rather a decimation and an ethnic cleansing of a savage people by the colonisers , all those tipuna wanted was for those colonisers to honour what the queen had decreed ,,,this is why we fight for the retention of our way of life ,,redress those wrongs first than look to re interpreting or founding new articles based on the treaty ,,,,new zealand parliament needs to be made up of both maori concepts and pakeha law ,,like i quoted earlier i don't see the need for co governance just an equitable partnership solution where both parties come together over the negotiation table share data ,debate merits to a proposal ,and finalise a consensus of opinion and close with an adopted resolution ,mmmnot rocket science

Think i lost brain cells since i started watching this its painful and im maori😂

Why does bro have a swastika on his vest ?

120 years of no wars, slavery or cannibalism in NZ. Maori that have put emphasis on education and hard work have achieved. Read Thomas Sowell’s book Migration and Culture it’s a good read. To many fools and race baiters pushing separatism. Sad truth is that many young Maori think gang life is Maori culture.

Far out you got to interview my nan bro i haven’t seen her in years 😂

Thank you for this video bro! I wish i found this earlier :)) great coverage from both sides

Chur bro, love your videos. Love how you just interview people with no bias and let them make fools of themselves. Lots of cringe in this vid all around haha

love your style of journalism

another excellent documentary, jeez boy you are good

Good video, I'm Māori but i was born and raised in England. I do feel that there is victim mentality amongst some Māori that is hard to escape. Similarly I feel theres a tendency from Pakeha people to neglect the influence that the past had on the modern day. My father grew up to he successful, but as a child in the 60s and 70s he was beaten if he spoke Te Reo at school. It takes time for a country to heal, and I think we were on our way, the reason there are protests now is because Māori people feel that progress is being lost

Mauri Ora with a crip hand sign. Says it all really.

we need way more education in schools about Maori culture, history and language, oh my god there are some freaky comments here

This needs to be said because it seems a lot of you are not getting it. Gangs are not Māori culture. They're using Maori as a race card. Think about it, if you were in a gang and you were being attacked you can just claim racism. But in honest truth Gangs will always say F the Māori. They have never cared about Māori, i don't understand why people think gangs have anything to do with Maori culture. Iwi have no say over gang activities. Patches are not allowed on Maraes. I need you to see it in this way. Maori communities have been stifled because of gangs. It has stopped growing since the 80s, its not allowed to exist as long as gangs exist. Its so bad now, you've actually mistaken gangs as Maori culture. If you removed gangs from Maori communities we could thrive again, the music, the food, the celebrations but whenever an attempt is made to push gangs out you jump to their rescue. Ive watched multiple attempts for communities to fix the problem and its always the same people that stop it, people who dont live in these neighborhoods. Because theyre fooled into thinking that Maori culture is being threatened, but theyre the ones threatening the culture. After 50 years Ive come to realise we cant fix it until you stop giving them power. We have to actually wait for privileged people to stop interfering.

Awesome journaling bro !!🤌

Imagine if a white man turned up with a Swas sticker on his vest??

No one gonna talk about bro with the swastika patch ?

Maori, don't wear clothes, eat process food, use toilet paper, transport, buildings, scooters, footwear, housing..etc

Awesome vid

You do realize two of the three leaders of the NZ government are maori right?

Run out of moa ffs

we are now one people

Matua's message at 7:10 to those wanting to scrap the Treaty: "Careful what you wish for"

We all the same when comes down to it we all the same . But this goverment are going to make it worse really.. help your follow man . Dnt hate .each other.life to short .

Fun fact, Waitangi day should be a week long. This would then match the length of time of the annual Waitangi proceedings. Last day of January through to the 6th of February.

You guys have been so constantly great for two years now, keep up the mahi

Unity not division. One human race, we all benefit from the wisdom and inventions of different cultures. Life is short

So do they want to go back to tribal watefare and continous conflict?

🔥0.05 sec into video, Chur uncle jim! famous cuzz😎

“Go to a marrai”

4:44 background swing and a miss

I am genuinely curious why that man was wearing a Swastika. Surely it wouldn't be because he supports what it stands for in Europe, right? More in the South-East Asian way?

Māori Ki te Ao😮‍💨 Ka whawhai tonu Ake Ake!🫡

Its incredible how ignorant and unonformed they are. No one can definitively give any evidence of so called oppression or lack of rights.

Maori Party need to realise that there will be no more handouts when we run out of money. Maori leaders need to get their snouts out of the trough and be productive

Maori people are too staunch alright

The FACTS are that some Maoris think they are entitled to things that other people are not, and they claim that they have this right written into the Treaty of Waitangi, when it is actually the reverse. They do not understand what "...all people shall be equal under the Law..." means, referring to the Laws of New Zealand, of which all their Maori Chiefs agreed to be citizens of alongside the British.

2:00 Nazi swastika spotted 😅

So wrong if Rawiti wants to give criminals ( gangs ) dignity....mi. maori buh very embarrased by his comments

Old V8 hat needs a tune-up! What the hell is News Helen Day.

This land this world belongs to God 💯

These guys don't even know were they came from as there not indigenous to nz. They only arrived on the shores of nz 650 years ago there were other people already living in nz when Maoris arrived. The treaty is for all new Zealanders not one race. If queen Victoria didn't help the Maori people they wouldn't be here anymore when the treaty was signed by the Maoris and queen Victoria Maoris became British and under British law. Go to England and read the ture signed treaty not this full of lies one we here about today.

I have no idea what's going on but i love new zealand native culture

So underrated!! Keep up the good vids 👍👍

another awesome vid & really beautiful kōrero from waitangi. great ending too 🤣

In 100 years, Maori will still feel hard done by.Alot of them will never progress.Alot of them will still have to depend on welfare.

🎵One day a Taniwha… Went swimming in the moana… You make me happy… when skies are grey 🤣🤣🤣 Or Ol Mc Donald had a farm and bingo was his name oh 🤣🤣🤣

What are they doing? No ones actually saying because they dont know. At the end of the day everyone has equal rights thats all that matters

There was almost no coherent argument or accurate facts from those interviewed. It's a worry.

not sure how arriving in canoes can make us indigenous. i have found the harder I work, the more privileged I have become.

If you are 90% euro, why is it only the maori history that's important?

there is no way Māori would of went extinct. that's a joke we lived off the land and the water there is no way we would have starved lol.

Get the forensic accountants on to it see where the money comes from where it goes seize assets and investments

Lovin' the vids lads 💯

Some well educated non bias/ignorant opinion there in takapuna😶

What happened to the moriori

such a victim complex

The fella at 6:39 speaks the truth - Mad understatement, waaay more than some disrespect coming from the Govt. That fella and Tamanui te ra will guide is, lessh go.

Why so much victimhood, havent met a single mauri here in Australia who has this victimhood mentality

tumeke for exposing their true thoughts of tangata whenua if they dont like it here they can get on a plan and go back to europe

Racism is very clearly defined. I believe in ONE COUNTRY ONE PEOPLE ONE VOTE SAME PU PUBLIC SERVICE FOR ALL. I like NZ and will stand up for equality!

people are free to have whatever interests they want as long as all New Zealanders are equal then we will all enjoy whatever culture we choose, but we should not have any culture pushed upon us. If you have a NZ passport then you have equal rights with any other New Zealander.

I’m in kiaKaha

there will always be division, happens all across the globe... in the meantime i spend most of my life at work getting nowhere while politicians are creaming it

Alot of Maori will never pull themselves out of poverty..But they they are very happy to take colonialist welfare and benefits.Without that they would starve.

Most Maori people hate these drama queens. Reparations don't work they will always want more. You have to work hard to earn your wealth just like everybody else.

If anything risks their partnership with the crown then it aint gonna happen. They aint gonna give up all their treaty perks to be the same as the rest of us.

nah cuz one of those people at the start is the dep princible of my school

They have everything given, and still complain. They need to get productive and start taking personal responsibility. Ardern fed this kind of self indulged entitlement.

The government cant think of any better issues than maori alone, let alone people are lossing their jobs. And money talks.

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That kid at the end "I'll give you $100 bucks" 🤣🤣🤣 You ain't got $100 bucks bro

you are only telling one side of the story ,and its the one maoris love to hear .read Captain cooks old book on the maoris as they found them

all the guys saying to rewirte or remove are recent immigrants. Maybe if they dont like our founding document they can go back to where they came from.

I'm not a Maori Kiwi but Waitangi Day is the only public holiday I care about. It should define us and unite all our diversity whilst reminding us how special our indigenous people are. The contribution they make to define what it is to live in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Tiriti is not this country's 'founding document'. It facilitated the subsequent move to becoming a British colony with governance independent of New South Wales. However, Te Tiriti was not a necessary step towards colonial rule, it just made it fairer to the existing inhabitants than had been the case in most other colonies. "Our land' cannot apply to the large parts that were sold to Europeans. You can't sell things but then still own them, at least not under European laws. But that reasoning seems ok for Maori.

Some of these folks just look and sound batsht crazy

Maori battalion fought under He whakaputanga signed in 1835

5:21 Did he seriously just say that the Māori would’ve gone EXTINCT if not for getting colonized??? They were literally 100% self sufficient. It genuinely makes me so mad that England felt entitled to enforce their *questionable* culture on half the world. Oh well they’re getting their karma now in England.

never there land ate the indigenous people and stole there land

I find it extraordinary how some of these part Māori people carry on, they are lucky that NZ wasn’t colonised by the Spanish or the Portuguese, thing’s would have been very different in a bad way, it seems that you will never appease the Part Māori.

Teheuheu the kupapa dynasty. And as for koriki...

Maori are not indigenous! All Kiwis came from other countries!

2:23 needs to learn about how Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga (Maori) took everything from another race and their decedents are still alive, The Tamehana's and the Solomans are still on main land NZ. With that logic, you might want to not be a hypocrite.

All the smart maoris are over seas. Had enough of all the BS. But happy that uncle Winston and uncle Shane are leading the way. To much victim hood and living off the Tax payers. That's my 5 cents from Sydney.

I am 4th generation nz European , Maori should have a lot bigger voice in governance of this country of ours and much more control over the land, cant see them selling it off to overseas investors like luxton , ardern and their kind love to do

Need to All get over your selves, you need to See who you really are, your Polynesian Maori, You've all come from all parts of Asia,