Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 26, 2022 5:20:36 GMT 12
COLLABORATION WITH CANADIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SETS TONE FOR HE PUAPUA
One of the authors of the controversial He Puapua report says the indigenous collaboration arrangement signed this week between Aotearoa and Canada offers an opportunity for Aotearoa to learn how to realise tino rangatiratanga.
Dr Claire Charters, (nō Ngāti Whakaue, Ngā Puhi, Tūwharetoa, Tainui) from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Law said He Puapua had been commissioned by the government to look for ideas to implement the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights, which a previous government had signed New Zealand up to.
A few of the ideas put forward in He Puapua were separate Māori courts and an upper house of Parliament but the likelihood of these ideas being taken seriously enough to be implemented is unknown at this stage.
“There is also an understanding that Te Tiriti o Waitangi hasn’t been honoured and there is that sense that something needs to be done.”
Charters said there had been studies from Harvard University that concluded indigenous people did better when there was some form of self-government or authority over things Māori.
– the ongoing impacts of colonisation.”.....
www.teaomaori.news/collaboration-canadian-indigenous-peoples-sets-tone-he-puapua
One of the authors of the controversial He Puapua report says the indigenous collaboration arrangement signed this week between Aotearoa and Canada offers an opportunity for Aotearoa to learn how to realise tino rangatiratanga.
Dr Claire Charters, (nō Ngāti Whakaue, Ngā Puhi, Tūwharetoa, Tainui) from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Law said He Puapua had been commissioned by the government to look for ideas to implement the United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Rights, which a previous government had signed New Zealand up to.
A few of the ideas put forward in He Puapua were separate Māori courts and an upper house of Parliament but the likelihood of these ideas being taken seriously enough to be implemented is unknown at this stage.
“There is also an understanding that Te Tiriti o Waitangi hasn’t been honoured and there is that sense that something needs to be done.”
Charters said there had been studies from Harvard University that concluded indigenous people did better when there was some form of self-government or authority over things Māori.
– the ongoing impacts of colonisation.”.....
www.teaomaori.news/collaboration-canadian-indigenous-peoples-sets-tone-he-puapua