Waitangi Treaty Grounds’ new exhibition showcases 28 previously unpublished photographs by photographer and activist James Aotearoa Pasene which revisit Waitangi Day protest actions occurring in Waitangi from 1980 to 1985. The exhibition features original .
A prominent Pacific activist says an exhibition chronicling the Waitangi protest movements from the late 70s to mid-80s is timely given the issues facing the.
Well, All I can say is Maori/ British politics is so convoluted , and time worn,- it is hard to see the forest from the trees sometimes, … but rest assured, in many cases certain tribes came out the worst for wear because of it. One time, travelling in a courier van with an ex Black Power member I was appalled at housing suburbs being built over the Gate Pa.
To me, … that was sacred ground as is the field of the battle of Hastings in England to the English.
He was typically stoic. Yet my blood boiled.
He is /part Maori , I was a fair haired Norse/Scots descendant New Zealander with an olive skin nonetheless ( now I’m grey haired both beard and hair ) …it just struck me as all so wrong and sacrilegious.