Marks of Mana Pt2 - Moko Kauae Stories 

Maybe she was scared and u just Kept showing her that video

@@spidermanspidertheman3650 what 😂

Ātaahua ❤️

@@spidermanspidertheman3650 OMG…💀

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Hey there! I’m writing my dissertation with the uni of Edinburgh and I’m looking to share stories of femininity and tattoos. If you or your mum would like to be involved and answer a few questions I would be delighted!!! (Love your username btw)

you that st00pid you don't know your mum has a tattoo on the face?

Stop it!! Nothing has been stolen, go and live like a caveman if you want to

@@StGammon77 Only caveman here is you!

Good luck on your journey towards belonging

How it went? I would love to read it!

Because the majority of Europeans hasn’t been oppressed nor colonized themselves, forced to forget their mother tongue, their culture, their identity… why you don’t “care” much about your own culture, history and identity. Well rings true for most places that where colonized by former European countries like America, Australia, and Aotearoa, who has a white majority population on stolen colonized indigenous native lands!!!

White people were in fact colonized and had their languages taken from them. It’s just that it happened centuries to millennia ago. As an example, Ireland was colonized by the British Empire, starved, deprived of speaking their own language, prohibited from doing their own dances. It took a backlash and reclaiming language and songs about 70 years ago, or Irish language would be dead now It was preserved in western coastal counties (the Gaeltacht), and if not for revival in schools throughout Ireland (where children used to be beaten for speaking Irish), the language would be dead by now. Irish, Scots Gaelic, Breton, and Welsh are still alive, but Manx, Cornish, and a few other Gaelic languages are pretty much dead. These happened in the last century or so, and it still counts as colonization even though both parties are Caucasian. The old Soviet Union committed ethnocide against the people of the non-Russian republics, especially Ukraine. The Russians have tried to obliterate Ukrainian culture for several centuries and claim it as their own. They are still trying to do this today in their latest invasion of Ukraine. Their primary bombing targets are museums, churches, performance spaces, and cultural arts centers, not railway stations, power plants, and schools. The latter are secondary targets. Ruzzia is to this day making claims that Ukraine has no culture and that any culture they have comes from Ruzzia, not the other way around. Ukrainian immigrants to Canada, assigned to the bleak plains to farm, have made common cause with the Cree there because both were being deprived of their culture by the dominant government. Cree are supporting the Ukrainian people by wearing “grandmother” scarves in solidarity. This is so beautiful what y’all are doing!

Yes people of color and the people and tribes you mentioned were treated the same as colored people. It wasn't a battle or wars because of the color of one's skin, but for the land and seas resources and, expendable slavery. White and colored men killed and women raped, and the world today is its living conditions. The death of all God's creations and God's laws in all its interpretations.

Tribal Europe was colonized, Christianity was forced upon the various tribes as well as patriarchy! The knowledge and history is here, you just need to take it! And it depends on the country, and ethnicity. Sure if you're a white American, or Aussie, or Kiwi, you probably don't know. Europe in it self has a lot of culture, rooted in history and going back to ancient times.

No way. That will be disrespectful to the culture. Like the whaea pretty much said, before getting one, know who you are. Some Women will be and have been asked what her kauae means and when she is asked especially from someone who is a Maori elder, she better explain herself.

Lol people get them for different reasons. Also explained in the video. As long as you are Maori, it’s your birth right to carry the lineage and story of your whakapapa. Few to none would dare get this as a “fashion statement” because being indigenous isn’t a trend nor fashion. Especially seeing how much hate, stigma, prejudice and racism we all face to this day.

Because only men get their whole face done aka Mataora.

But Samoa has beautiful tataus?!

Btw you can get a Kirituhi which is not restricted to Maori only like the Moko, and Moko Kauae, but a Maori style tatau for non Maori wearers...

@@fale892 Chill bro.....

If it has meaning, get one Gee. It's the 21st century, you might have to go asking for permission tho, the artist might refuse to tattoo you.

We all have feelings and emotions. Toxic masculinity and patriarchy has told men other wise.

Ngā mihi

Why? Fetishes based on ethnicity or someone’s ethnic makeup is actually racist.

@@kilipaki87oritahiti maybe due the fact he's african and suffer a lot during colonization times he likes the indigenous people our history is the same, I'm indigenous from brasil and there is so common the mixture between black and indigenous people.

If you have māori blood, you're māori. Percentages are irrelevant. Kia Ora.

Doesn't matter how much milk you have in your cup of tea, it's still a cup of tea. Nga mihi

That blood quantum argument has been used in the US to undermine indigenous rights. We dont do that in Aotearoa. If you have 1 drop of Maori blood than you have a whakapapa.

There's some that are between 100% to 3/4, most are mixed. I dont really regard anyone under half as maori. They may say they are but genetically they're more European.

@@delmarae100 I am a Pakeha, descended from English and Scottish Earls and Clan Chiefs. There is a story in our family that many years ago, in the middle of the 19th Century, a Maori Chief came to visit the Estate, and he bought a lot of guns from this Scottish Chief, who was (supposedly) my ancestor. The Maori Chief knew this Scottish Chief's family because he lived near Whitby, in Yorkshire, and his ancestor helped to fund Captain Cook's voyage. Well, the Maori Chief was apparently very popular there, and stayed for some months on my ancestor's estate. After he left, Her Ladyship found out that she was pregnant, and when the baby was born, it was brown... His Lordship claimed the baby as his own, however, and told everyone that there were olive skinned Roman ancestors in the family, and it was clearly a throwback to this genetic. That Maori chief was Hone Heke, or Hongi Hika, he took all those firearms that he bought back to New Zealand and wiped out most of Te Arawa with them. Many years later, my parents moved to Rotorua and bought a house in a Maori area (Western Heights). Mum got to know many Maori women well and became their close friends. Mum and Dad had been Missionaries to the Yamatji tribe in West Australia before they moved to New Zealand and were NOT the domineering type of Missionary. They sought to do good things for the Yamatji such as setting up water supplies for them, and introduced Jesus afterwards. Dad learned to speak Wadjarri, (their language) and learned about their own spirituality before introducing the Gospel. He found a lot of Godliness in their beliefs, and they taught him as much about Spirit as what he taught them. Anyway, after they moved to New Zealand, and began befriending the Maori, Mum was often mistaken for a Maori woman, because she had the olive skin and black hair of her brown-skinned ancestor! They also said that she had Te Wairua, that special Spirit that the Maori have of Aroha, and Mana. I also made many Maori friends, but always felt a great sadness, because they felt so much like my people, but they were not my people. But I believe that the Maori Chief did seduce my grandmother's grandmother, and that the baby that resulted was his child. Mum got on especially well with the few Nga Puhi women who were brave enough to live in Rotorua, and they said that she had their Spirit, that she was one of them. I don't know if she ever told them the story of her ancestor, but even if she didn't, the fact that they felt the Spirit resonate was very interesting. There are some people in her family, to this day, who are born so dark that they are sometimes mistaken for Aborigines, but as for me, I have a fairer complexion, although I always loved Taha Maori. I was taught Harakeke as a child, and some of the songs and stories, which I loved, especially about Hatu Patu and the Birdwoman, and the tales of Maui, and the stories of the Patupaerehe of Ngongotaha! I grew up at the foot of Mt. Ngongotaha, and it really is a very special place! Thank you for making this video about Ta Moko. My husband died almost 18 years ago, and I have been considering getting a picture of him tattooed on my arm. I still love him, and the more I consider this, the more I think it would be the right thing to do. Tino Pai, e Hoa, ki a 'ataa nei! God Bless You, Te Wairua Tapu be with you always!

All I can see is a white privileged entitled Karen having so much to say about things that are none of her business! The audacity of white people, complaining about how little “indigenous” someone look, when it was they who colonized these lands in the 1st place! Regardless of blood quantum or ethnic makeup, as long as it’s in your blood you’re Maori!

Yes, a lot of us are fair, but not euro

Oh please. Colonial brainwash, mentality as well as religious brainwash. Yes write that on a video where one are to celebrate what was almost lost, and banned due to Christian missionaries, and white colonial powers, and take the religion of the suppressors. Sure. Good idea! Also Christianity originated in the Middle East along side Islam, inspired by Judaism.

Tautoko

Jesus us with us always

Why would a pakeha/tauiwi complete our journey for us?

Gille87 Actually, Islam came about in the 7th century, approximately 600 years after the founding of Christianity.

Colonised much

If you're male, no woman would give u one