Ngati Paoa Waka mutiny against US Warship visit

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Ngati Paoa - Waka Kotuiti 2 NZ-US Navy & Chilean Death & Destruction Ships & 75th NZ Navy Celebration

A local iwi in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland NZ, Ngati Paoa is currently rehearsing their part on the waters of Tamaki Makaurau, Okahu Bay of their involvement in NZ Navy's 75th year of celebration.

A Self proclaimed, leader, Hau Rawiri decided to welcome into the Hauraki Gulf, Waitemata Harbour, the USS Sampson & The Chilean Ship the Esmeralda. The latter ship was used by Augusto Pinochet in his reign of terror he imposed upon the people of Chile in the 1970's assisted by the US. 
Both of these ships of death and destruction are not worthy of any kind of celebration or warrant the honour to be welcomed by the waka Kotuiti 2 of Ngati Paoa.

The people of Ngati Paoa were not involved in the decision making to be involved in anyway. 

This has been disturbing news for many of the elders of Ngati Paoa as the history for Ngai Paoa & the NZ Navy in the firth of Thames is one of death and destruction.

At the turn of the 19th century the British Navy had relentlessly bombed villages & Paa along the seabird coast, Pukorokoro/Miranda (not far from Kaiaua-100kms south east from Auckland Central) and killed many of our ancestors. 

"Rangipo pa invasion."
Which is what most of their tupuna did in 1863 when 850 British Bluejackets landed on the western Firth of Thames, after Governor Grey ordered the invasion of the Waikato. They came in warships, shelled pa's and villages and swept ashore. Then the Crown took the land and gave some to the soldiers. The Ngati Whanaunga village of Pukorokoro was renamed Miranda after one of the warships.”

Geoff Cumming Herald Article, 2012.

No apology from the Crown have been made or offered to the people of Ngati Paoa to this day.

The native American Indian in Standing Rock Dakota in the US are been persecuted and denied "Mana Motuhake" and the right to step foot on their own whenua/land right now! 
Does that sound familiar? Many Maaori agree and together, stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Sioux Indian people and supporters against the XL Oil Pipeline and the mighty Militarised Police & National Guard. It has been many months of protesting and legal battles in this period for them all and it looks like it is becoming a war of attrition? Who know what the new President Elect will do?
Many people of Ngati Paoa are opposed to the decision made by Hau Rawiri to lead the War Convoy by escorting the NZ & US, Chilean Navy’s weapons of mass destruction and death into Tamaki Makaurau, Waitemata Harbour in the waka Kotuiti 2. 
We should all be with the people at “Standing Rock” & the Sioux, Native American Indian & protestors, not celebrating the US and NZ Navy’s War Machines especially with the current Settlement negotiations that Ngati Paoa and the Crown are in currently.
It’s a sad time for our Tupuna. 

Comrade Takere



        
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