What Indigenous People?
What Indigenous People Prime Minister?
Prime Minister John Key, in a secret deal with the Maori Party, has just sent the Hon Pita Sharples to the United Nations in New York to sign the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People” but New Zealand no longer has, if ever, Indigenous People!
A few months before the Declaration was signed, the Minister of Justice, the Hon Simon Power gave, “New Zealand’s Fifth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the United Nations Human Rights Committee”, on behalf of the New Zealand Government. This report detailed the Government’s handling of the rights of our “indigenous people” – the Maori.
We wrote to the Minister of Justice under the Official Information Act, asking for the Government’s definition of the “Indigenous People of New Zealand”. The Minister responded he was forwarding our request to the Attorney General, the Hon Christopher Finlayson. The Minister of Justice had been sent to the United Nations on behalf of the Government not knowing who were the people he was representing!
On the 7 April 2010 the Attorney General replied stating, “I decline your request under section 18(e) of the Official Information Act 1982 as no such document exists that contains this information”.
We then wrote to the Prime Minister as he had just sent the Hon Pita Sharples to New York to sign the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, therefore must have a legal definition of these people for New Zealand to become a signatory to this Declaration. On the 30 April 2001 he replied, “As the issue you have raised falls within the portfolio responsibilities of the Minister of Justice, I have forwarded your email on to the office of Hon Simon Power for his consideration”.
On the 23 April 2010, after the Government had signed the “Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People”, we again asked the Hon Christopher Finlayson under the Official Information Act to give the definition of the Indigenous People this Declaration referred. On the 29 April 2010, we received a letter from the Hon Simon Power stating Mr Finlayson had transferred our OIA request back to him. The Government has no idea who these people are and continue to pass the buck as the pressure comes on to substantiate the signing of this Declaration.
Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has no idea of who are the Indigenous People and the Attorney General has stated, “No such document exists that contains this information”! The Prime Minister did a secret deal with the Maori Party by signing the “Declaration of the Rights of the Indigenous People” when New Zealand does not have a definition of these people as they no longer exist, if ever! While the Maori Party believe they are Indigenous, their ancestors destroyed this myth when they intermarried of their own free will with other races many, many years ago!
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People”, states in Article 33: 1. “Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live”, but Maori today are no longer, if ever, “Indigenous”!
How can “maori” be Indigenous when they only arrived in New Zealand some 300 years before the Europeans to find New Zealand already inhabited? Since this time, “maori” have intermarried of their own free will with other races until today they are no longer, if ever, “the Indigenous People of New Zealand” or the “distinct race of people that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840”. A passed Minister of Maori Affairs stating, “Maori were a distinct race of people, who at the time of colonisation, were easily identifiable”, but this distinct race of people have long gone!
The Maori race today are a “new race” of people created by Acts of Parliament, the first Act passed in 1865. It became apparent in 1865 that many of the “maori race” had intermarried of their own free will with races from other lands and therefore could no longer be classed as the “distinct race of people that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840”. The Government passed an Act of Parliament in 1865, “The Native Land Act” that created a “new race” of people. Since this time, Maori have continued to intermarry of their own free will with other races, causing their ancestry to become further and further diluted, forcing the Government to amend the Act many times over the years. The reason to create this “new race” of people cannot be blamed on the Government or the non-Maori, but on their ancestors who chose to intermarry with other races of their own free will.
Today, most Maori are so far removed from the “maori race” of New Zealand that it would be impossible to say they were the “distinct race of people that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840”. Most are closer related to the people they claim created the so-called injustices than their “maori” ancestors. As a past Race Relations Conciliator of Maori descent, Mr John Clark stated, “Maori today are a people with maori ancestry, as one sees in legislation“.
Some of the Statutory Interpretations of Maori, “As One Sees in Legislation”?
1. The Native Land Act of 1865 defined a Maori as, “An aboriginal native and shall include all half- castes and their descendants by natives“.
2. The Qualification of Electors Act 1879 defined a Maori as, “An aboriginal inhabitant of New Zealand and includes any half-caste living as a member of a native tribe according to their customs and usages and any descendants of such a half caste by a maori woman“.
3. The Electoral Act 1893 defined a Maori as, “An Aboriginal inhabitant of New Zealand and includes half-castes and their descendants by natives”.
4. The Native Land Court Act 1894 defines a Maori as, “An Aboriginal native of New Zealand and includes half-castes and their descendants“.
5. The Native Land Act 1909 defines a Maori as, “A person belonging to the Aboriginal race of New Zealand and includes a half-caste and a person immediately in blood between half-caste and a person of pure descent from that race“.
6. The Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974 defines a Maori as “a person of the Maori race of New Zealand and includes any descendent of such a person”.
7. The Electoral Amendment Act 1975 defines a Maori as, “A person of the Maori race and includes any descendents of such a person who elects to be considered a Maori for the purpose of the Electoral Act”.
In effect, Government can no longer say who is and who isn’t a Maori. As can be seen from the Acts above, the Government has virtually given up on defining who were the people that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, but are still paying out billions of taxpayer’s funds to this one small group of New Zealand Citizens.
The Waitangi Tribunal
Definition (6) is the definition being used today to allow this one small group of New Zealand Citizens to claim through the Waitangi Tribunal. All these Acts came about as the “maori race” intermarried with other races “of their ancestors own free will“.
The Waitangi Tribunal, which the Government created in 1975, is an “apartheid tribunal“, where 15% of New Zealand’s Citizens, who can claim a minute trace of “maori ancestry“, can claim against their fellow Citizens without the right to claim, participate, cross examine or appeal. In 1987, the Government “replaced” the Tiriti o Waitangi with “Five Principles” without debate or the people’s knowledge or consent, giving the Waitangi Tribunal “unbridled power” to rewrite our history and interpret our Treaty to suit the claim. In 1988, the Courts using Professor Hugh Kawhura’s “unofficial attempt at a reconstruction of the literal translation” of the Maori text, wrongly stated, “The Treaty was a partnership between Maori and the Crown”. Maori can now negotiated direct with the Crown to settle unsubstantiated claims worth billions of dollars of taxpayer’s funds and many of our prime public assets without the people’s knowledge, consent or right to appeal.
The Government/Crown completely overlooks the fact; “Part-Maori today are not, the distinct race of people, that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840″.
Most Maori today, who claim through the “apartheid” Waitangi Tribunal or in direct negotiations with the Government/Crown are closer related to the people they “claim to have ripped them off” that to their “maori ancestors“. The Government/Crown are allowing this “mixed race of people“, through legislation, to claim as if they were, “the distinct race of people that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840”.
Queen Victoria did not sign the Tiriti o Waitangi with a “mixed race of people“. She signed the Tiriti o Waitangi with “a distinct race of people” called “maori“, a race through intermarriage of their ancestor’s own free will, no longer exists.
It’s time the people of New Zealand woke up to the monstrous scam being forced on them by the Government/Crown today. It’s an undeniable fact, Maori today are not, “the Indigenous People of New Zealand, if ever, or the distinct race of people or that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840”, they are “a mixed race of people” as one sees in legislation!
THE TIRITI O WAITANGI MADE US ALL ONE PEOPLE UNDER THE LAW, INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE RACES, MADE US ALL ONE PEOPLE – NEW ZEALANDERS!
Research Department, One New Zealand Foundation Inc. www.onenzfoundation.co.nz