Ka tae mai te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti ki Kirikiriroa, he pakanga ā-kupu i tae mai ki Pōneke

Thursday, 14 November 2024

Ka tū mai a Kirikiriroa, Pōneke, me te Tiriti ki te pūtahi o te atamira i te Tāite me te huihui mai o ngā manomano o ngā kaihīkoi i te pokapū o te tāone nui o Waikato, i te wā e pupū ake ana te kakari i te pokapū o te manapori.

Ka pōhiritia te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti e Kirikiriroa - ko tōna tiriti matua i kīkī rawa ki ngā kaihīkoi, nā rātou te Arawhiti Whanga o Tāmaki e pīroiroi ana i whakawhiti i te rangi i mua, me ngā manomano i whanga mai ki te tutaki i a rātou.

I Pōneke, ko te Pire Matapono Tiriti nāna i whiu te korakora kia whakarewa i te hīkoi, i tahuna tōna ake pakanga ā-kupu i a ia e taukumekume ana i te Pāremata.

Ko tā Aotearoa tāna ake kōrero o ngā tāone nui e rua i te Tāite me te haramai a te manomano o ngā kaitautoko mō te Tiriti hei whakapuke i te tiriti matua o Kirikiriroa, i tapaina mō te Quīni Wikitōria - i te wā ka haramai noki te Pāti ACT kia taukumekume mō tāna Pire Matapono Tiriti nui te whiuwhiu kupu.

New Zealand had its own tale of two cities on Thursday as thousands of kaitautoko (supporters) of the Treaty flooded Hamilton’s main street, named after Queen Victoria - while in Wellington, ACT stepped up to debate its contentious new Treaty Principles Bill.

Ka rere mai te Hīkoi mō te Tiriti ki Kirikiriroa, ko te tāone nui i te pūtahi o te rohe kaha te ahumahi huamiraka - he wāhanga nui o te Kīngitanga hoki - me ngā tāngata e 6000 i hīkoi i te Tiriti Wikitōria i a rātou e haere nei ki ngā arawhata o te Whare Pāremata a tērā Tūrei.

The Hīkoi mō te Tiriti rolled into Kirikiriroa, the city at the centre of regional dairy powerhouse, Waikato - and key part of the Kīngitanga - with more than 6000 people marching on Victoria St as they journey to the steps of Parliament next Tuesday.

Read this story in English here.

Ka pōhiritia e ngā tāngata 2000-3000 ngā kaihīkoi i a rātou e tae mai ana ki Garden Place, it te pokapū o Kirikiriroa.

An estimated 2000-3000 people greeted the marchers when they arrived at Garden Place, in central Hamilton.

Hei tā te māngai o te hīkoi, hei tā Eru Kapa-Kingi, ka “whakatīnanatia te kōrero” e te taipoenga mō te kotahitanga - te whakarerenga o Kīngi Tūheita i mate - nā te kaha tautoko, Māori mai, tauiwi mai.

Hīkoi spokesperson Eru Kapa-Kingi said the event was “walking the talk” of kotahitanga - the legacy of the late Kīngi Tūheitia - with both Maori and non-Māori coming out in support.

Ka kīia e ia ko tō te hīkoi take nui ko te atawhai i te whakatupuranga rangatahi o nāianei, me ngā reanga ki te heke mai, “kia kaua rawa rātou e ora ana i tētahi ao kei reira he kōrero e whakaiti ana i tō rātou mana”.

He said the march was about looking after the younger, and coming generations, “so they don’t have to live in a world where there is kōrero that diminishes their mana”.

I whāia e tēnei ngā āhuatanga whakamīharo i te rangi ki mua i Tāmaki Makaurau, i ngā mano tāngata e tohe ana i te Arawhiti Whanga Tāmaki i pīroiroi nei kia whakawhiti i te Whanga Waitematā mā te waewae.

It followed extraordinary scenes the day before in Auckland, as thousands braved the swaying Auckland Harbour Bridge to cross the Waitematā Harbour by foot.

Ko te Hīkoi, me te tūhono ki Te Pāti Māori, e kaha ātete ana i te Pire Matapono Tiriti.

The hīkoi, which is aligned with Te Pāti Māori, is opposed to the Treaty Principles Bill.

Heoi anō, i taua wā tonu, i Pōneke, i te ahiahi Tāite, ka kōrerotia e te kaiārahi ACT, a David Seymour i roto i ngā kaha hāparangi o ngā waha o ngā kaitōrangapū ātete, i te pānuitanga tuatahi o tā tana pāti Pire Matapono Tiriti.

Meanwhile, in Parliament, Wellington, on Thursday afternoon, ACT leader David Seymour spoke amid fierce heckling as his party’s Treaty Principles Bill had its first reading.

E ai ki ngā rongo kōrero a Puna, ka kī a ia ka whakatika te pire i tētahi take “e tuku ana i ngā mōtika rerekē i te iwi whānui o Aotearoa” ki te Māori.

As reported by Stuff, he said the bill would would address an issue where Māori are 'afforded different rights than other New Zealanders'.

Ka tukuna he pōtitake-here hei kowhiringa mō te iwi whānui kia whakawhiti i ngā matapono i hangaia i ngā ngahurutau kua hipa me ngā matapono e toru i roto i te ture e marohi ana.

It would offer a binding referendum where New Zealanders could vote whether to replace decades-worth of principles with the three in the proposed legislation.

I te Pāremata, ka kī a Seymour he mea pai te pire, ā, mā tērā “e whakamanapori ake ai te Tiriti”.

In Parliament, Seymour said the bill was a good thing and would be a 'democratisation of the Treaty' .

Ka whakahē te MP Reipa a Willie Jackson, ā, kua panaia a ia mai i te Whare i a ia e tapa ana i a Seymour hei “arero teka”; ka wakataurite te kaiārahi takirua a Te Pāti Māori a Rawiri Waititi i te Pāti ACT ki te KKK; heoi anō, ka whai te MP Nahinara a Louise Upston i tētahi āhuatanga māhaki ake, nāna te pire i tapa he “kuare”.

Labour MP Willie Jackson disagreed, and was booted from the House after calling Seymour 'a liar'; Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi compared ACT to the KKK; meanwhile, National MP Louise Upston took a milder tone, calling the bill “simplistic”.

I whakaae a Nahinara ki te tautoko i te pire i roto noa iho i te takiwā tāpaetanga tūmatanui hei wāhanga o tana kirimana haumitanga me te Pāti ACT. Ahakoa tēnei tautoko, Ka wehea tonutia e te Pirimia Christopher Luxon tana pāti mai i te pire.

National agreed to support the bill through the public submissions phase as part of its coalition deal with ACT. Despite this support, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has continued to distance the party from the bill.

I Kirikiriroa i te Tāite, he wairua mārire ake: Ka waiatatia e ngā kaitautoko me te haka hoki, ā ka whakagongo rātou ki tētahi kaitōrangapū anō, me te MP Pāti Māori mō Hauraki-Waikato, ko Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke.

On the ground in Hamilton on Thursday, the vibe was friendlier: Kaitautoko busting out waiata and haka, and listening to another politician, and Māori Party MP for Hauraki-Waikato, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke.

I muri i te taiopenga, ka kīia e ia ka haerehia ki Pōneke kia whawhai ki te pire, ā, “ko tāku noa iho he tono ki a koutou kia whakatīnana i tēnei tiriti, kia whakaora i a ia, kia whakahā i a ia …”

After the event, she said she would be heading down to Wellington to fight against the bill, and “all I ask for you is to live by this treaty, live it breathe it …”

Kia haere tonu to hīkoi ki Apumoana Marae i Rotorua mō te pō.

The hīkoi pressed on to Apumoana Marae in Rotorua for the night.

Heoi anō, i te whiore o te ahiahi Tāite, ki Pōneke anō, kua āia tā te Pika Gerry Brownlee whakatārewa i te nohonga Pāremata. Ka horapa te hakahia o tā Ngāti Toa haka Ka Mate, mai i te wāhanga tūmatanui ki ngā kaitōrangapū ātete i tae rā anō ki te Pāti Māori, Reipa me ngā Kākāriki.

Meanwhile, late Thursday afternoon, back in Wellington, Speaker Gerry Brownlee was forced to suspend the sitting of Parliament. The Ngāti Toa haka Ka Mate, was spreading from the public gallery to Opposition MPs including the Maori Party, Labour and the Greens.

Ko Maipi-Clarke, nānā te haka i tīmata i muri i tāna tīhaehae i te pire, rātou ko ngā kaiārahi takirua o Te Pāti Māori, Waititi me Debbie Ngarewa-Packer i hakahia Ka Mate, kanohi ki te kanohi, ki a Seymour.

Maipi-Clarke, who started the haka after tearing up the bill, and Māori Party co-leaders Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer performed Ka Mate, eyeball to eyeball, with Seymour.

I te Paraire, i muri i tetahi huihuinga ki Rotorua, ka haere tonu te hīkoi ki Heretaunga i Te Matau a Māui - Ngāti Kahungunu, mō tētahi whakahohenga anō i te Hātarei. Ka whakapakarihia te hunga e tētahi rōpū Ikaroa-Rāwhiti nō Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa ka haramai ki Heretaunga i te Paraire.

On Friday, after a rally in Rotorua, the hīkoi will travel to Hastings in Hawke’s Bay - Ngāti Kahungunu, for another rally there on Saturday. It will be bolstered by an Ikaroa-Rāwhiti contingent travelling from Gisborne to Hastings on Friday as well.

E kawatau ana ko ngā kaitautoko, mai i ngā āhuatanga katoa, ki te tū mai ki ngā tiriti i te hīkoi e rere tonu mai nei.

Kaitautoko, from all walks of life, were expected to line the streets as the hīkoi rolls on.

– This story was translated by Stuf kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell.

This is a Public Interest Journalism-funded translation through NZ On Air