If we look back to where this came from you can trace it to the blood quantums which started in USA in The trouble was that it created a generation or two that still use this type of language.
It is interesting that no-one questions the western heritage for example: what blood have you got it in you? Great analogy! Yes, Great analogy! Yes, justification and legitimacy is just a means of gatekeeping — bad enough that classifications were enshrined in legislation, but even sadder when use them against each other now.
Kei runga noa atu koe mo tou mahi rangatira. Some kids were saying I wasnt maori because I was white. My grandfather sat me down. He got a small glass of milk and said it represented the non maori blood.
He then dropped a blob of ink from his fountain pen into it which made it light blue. That is how strong maori blood is. Who you are.
This is what we call whakapapa. From that I day never acknowledged fractions of blood line. No matter what race, if you connect, you are your connections.
However knowing and practicing your culture shows people which blood line you are favouring. Think I might get out a glass of milk next time! What a fabulous article, so What a fabulous article, so much that I can relate to.
I can trace my Maori heritage, on my Mothers side, back to the canoes…… and yet, I have white blond hair but darker skin. So I feel doubly blessed that I have great lineage on both sides of my family.
At a very early age I have learnt to be proud and in my eyes, I belong to both Maori and Pakeha. Tena koe, nga mihi. Like you I am of both Maori and Pakeha Scottish descent and enjoy reading your blog. I am a reasonably competent Maori speaker and confident in Maori settings such as the marae. After I had travelled overseas and immersed myself in other languages and cultures I came to the sharp realisation that in actual fact, our differences pale in comparison to our similarities to other people and that ultimately we are all simply citizens of the world — a human brotherhood.
On the contrary, Te Reo is weighed down with the weight of colonisation, loss, history and politics and I fear these things are working almost against the languages survival — ie. Aroha mai mo tenei korero tino roa, engari he pai ana ki te whakaputa aku whakaaro e pa ana ki nga kaupapa nei! Kia ora Nadine, Kia ora Nadine, Thank you for your this story and thank you for creating articulate narratives that a lot of us relate to. Our stories are important in this increasingly diversified world of ours.
They give us perspective, they help us relate to other humans, and they help us to identify. Keep the words coming! Thank you for such a Thank you for such a beautifully written article. I am hapa. My sister and brother both look Hawaiian and I do not by any means. My family has always teased me about my white skin. My mother used to make me stay outside till I blistered trying to make me dark like the family.
In my heart I knew who I was. Learning your own language gives peace and cultural identity to yourself when your skin betrays you. Kia kaha. Tena koe, ngaEber mihi nui ki Tena koe, ngaEber mihi nui ki a koe e hine. Everything you talked about was spot on. Who knows where the reo me ona tikanga will take you. I have been on a 15 year journey of rediscovery. I too am humbled by the knowing that I had been missing for nearly 50 years.
Thanks to my tupuna as well. I too have questioned myself I too have questioned myself on this subject — raised in the love of my Tuhoe people grandmother to age 8 years and discovering my Ngai Tahu whakapapa bloodline to my grandfather mother recently. I have only spoken English since leaving my Tuhoe environment as a kid and do not speak my fathers tongue.
My journey in life to what I am today has always been attributed to my belonging to my Tuhoe heritage and holding this belief even in my weakest or blackest days growing up. With the latest discoveries of my other whakapapa, this has helped me join the dots to complete my life and today I encourage all my siblings and their children to at least know their whakapapa so they know their beginnings to pass onto our future generations.
We will be undertaking a journey in to familiarise our young generation on their Ngai Tahu line before their grandmother passes over. We will also continue this with our Tuhoe family in God willing with their great grandmother still with us. Both journeys will be about connecting and belonging — language will be secondary and up to each individual should they wish to learn and continue.
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