Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 24, 2023 3:24:12 GMT 12
THE MANA WHENUA FABRICATION
P H writes > The whole notion of 'mana whenua' is arrant nonsense, based as it is on people selling land more than 160 years ago as evidenced by deeds of sale recording that all apurtenat rights are thereby extinguished( then the part-descendants of the original 'sellers' asserting that some kind of residual jurisdictional rights subsist in them based on a traditional ancestral association with a locality.
This is analogous to me selling a house via a binding deed of sale thst transfers all my rights in the property to an incoming purchaser; then my descendants demanding on ongoing say in how the property is landscaped, redecorated, and redeveloped.
And in this case demanding a special invite to a party and expecting a say in the guest list, food, costumes worb by the guests, speechifying, and entertainments.
Arrant nonsense in other words.
The 'mana wheua' fabrication can only be sustained by buying into the fiction that the TOW was intended to be an ongoing racial partnership when it clearly wasn't.
FOOTNOTE:
P’s comment is in response to this article > www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/482889/manawatu-ngati-kauwhata-to-meet-with-settlers-day-event-organisers
P H writes > The whole notion of 'mana whenua' is arrant nonsense, based as it is on people selling land more than 160 years ago as evidenced by deeds of sale recording that all apurtenat rights are thereby extinguished( then the part-descendants of the original 'sellers' asserting that some kind of residual jurisdictional rights subsist in them based on a traditional ancestral association with a locality.
This is analogous to me selling a house via a binding deed of sale thst transfers all my rights in the property to an incoming purchaser; then my descendants demanding on ongoing say in how the property is landscaped, redecorated, and redeveloped.
And in this case demanding a special invite to a party and expecting a say in the guest list, food, costumes worb by the guests, speechifying, and entertainments.
Arrant nonsense in other words.
The 'mana wheua' fabrication can only be sustained by buying into the fiction that the TOW was intended to be an ongoing racial partnership when it clearly wasn't.
FOOTNOTE:
P’s comment is in response to this article > www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/482889/manawatu-ngati-kauwhata-to-meet-with-settlers-day-event-organisers