What Aotearoa NZ taught me | Indigenous wisdom
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
- It’s nearly been a year since I first arrived here. Aotearoa is a special place, but I never expected to draw such wisdom from the land, from its people, the Māori.
We desperately need to listen to the voices of Earth based societies like the Māori. But to do so requires a space of mutual respect and time to heal the wounds of the past.
Living here has made me aware of something long lost. But indigenous wisdom has shown me the light I need - we all need - to illuminate the way ahead.
You are just the type of person we want here bro. You'd be most welcome if you decided to come back. Arohanui
Ae, whakaae. Too much to the brother!
Aroha Nui 🗾🐋🌊
Your story telling & your cinematography is absolutely spectacular. It brought tears to my eyes seeing all our beautiful taonga ❤ Ngā mihi nui ki a koe e hoa
As someone who initially moved to Aotearoa to just study, I eventually found myself sharing these sentiments. The Māori culture and language evoked emotions in me. It was akin to feeling like I was home even though I came from thousands of miles away. I have gained a newfound appreciation for nature - I have become more aware of its significance and how it ties in with my life.
Loved this video and hope more people see this!
Wow! I love the depth of your learnings and your generosity to share it all with us. You are an exceptional human being. The world needs more people like you 🫶
This comment made my day. Thank you for your words 💚
What a beautiful film. Love the message and cinematography. Keep inspiring 🍃
Thank you so much!! I will thanks to comments like these :))
Beautiful 💚
Ngaa mihi nui kia koe. Seeing our relatives such as. Harakeke and mamaku just made my heart smile.
Whakangarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua - As man disappears from sight, the land remains
Such a beautiful and resonate phrase. Thank you so much for sharing
This is an awesome video brother. There will always be a place for you here in Aotearoa among kindred spirits. This land does not belong to us, we belong to the land...keep on keeping on brother!!
“The land doesn’t belong to us, we belong to the land.” So good. Thanks a lot!
@@SamuelSpad A pleasure bro, you're welcome...
Thank you
I thank God for his hand of being 🙏 for Life ....
the before and the after, and this point in time.
Wow so amazing 👏 So blessed that you are apart of te ao māori ❤ Mauri ora my brother 🙌🏽
Awwww I absolutely loved this short clip .. thank you so much … wouldn’t the world be a nicer place if they had yr outlook on each other and our planet
Come back soon, we made a space for you. Aroha
Kia manaakitia o koutou haerenga, Arohanui 🇳🇿
Kia Ora 🙏 how profound and inspiring!
Arohanui
Kia ora! I'm so humbled to have had this experience. Arohanui
You are always welcome to my home Ahipara 90 mile beach Aeotearoa 🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful I feel your energy and your heart you are one with all that is........Thank you...I hope I meet you on the journey of life..go well...
Very cool!! Nice video!!
Beautiful video- the message is deep, insightful and life inspiring.
Tino ataahua kia koe brother beautiful Video and thankyou come back any time ours is yours.
Tino ataahua kia koe Ngamihi nui kia koe fabulous Korero 👌
I love this 💯❤
Thank you 😊
Beautiful! As a white person from the us, I relate deeply to your position. I’ve just graduated college with a degree in ethnobotany and indigenous studies.
I loved seeing all the plant names. I’m learning a native language of my area, and that’s always my favorite part.
It’s feels difficult, confusing, and lonely sometimes in our identity while trying to navigate! But I have faith we can heal these deep wounds 🙏 let’s keep going together :)
You may have heard of her, but I recommend checking out Robin Wall Kimmerer. Her literature on combing indigenous wisdom with her background in botany is so moving. Thank you for your comment. Let's keep learning together :)
Welcome to All First nation's thinking,you are a guest on mother earth,
A guardian,a helper,so she can perform her tasks,of providing for us today,and humanities future,
This is beautiful, you have certainly grasped the key concepts that maori have to share with the world . Loving your work and may you continue to share these concepts in your journey throughout the world🙏🏽❤️🔥👌
Ataahua... beautiful e hoa ❤
Tihei Mauri Ora Ehoa
Most New Zealanders have a great love and appreciation for their environment, irrespective of how many generations your family have lived here
Wish that were the case historically
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He mihinui ki a koe 🙌🏽
kia ora bro , nga mihi
Arohanui my bro.👍👌
Well said! Nga mihi.
Thank you for sharing this...
❤Great Great job at depicting our culture.Thank you for taking the time to learn..I have pakeha work colleagues whom are born here in their 50-60’s and barely know how to say Hello and Goodbye 🫶🏼
Kia Ora matua Samuel
Well thought out and pleasing to listen to
He aha te mea nui o te ao maaku e kii atu he tangata he tangata he tangata
Ki ooku tuupuna ko te whenua te mea nui
ara ka noho piri tata ko te reo rangatira Kia maaori
"Kia kore koe e ngaro taku reo rangatira"
May you my noble chiefly language never be lost to me
Tēnā koe e te Pākehā,
“Me tiro whakamuri kia ānga whakamua” - we must look back to move forward
I love this bit of wisdom. Thank you for sharing
The Maori say stop and listen to nz breathing in the air and the rivers flowing peacefully and the birds pollinating there work to save Aotearoa land of the long white cloud Kia Ora nz
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Mīharo bro
Maori belive that NZ was fished up from the ocean by Maui. In Western tectonic plate science the NZ continental plate is mostly sunken beneath the ocean. So really - Maori actually invented the science of tectonic plates.
How much western science was already discovered and known by earth people.
Such a great example. I couldn’t agree more
@SamuelSpad if Maori had been left without colonisation - I'm confident they would have soon invented written language and discovered the wheel independently of the white man.
We will never know what earth people could have been capable of doing on their own.
chur brother
chuur bo
Well done
He mea motuhake ina penei te whakanui i to tatou tikanga, ka nui te aroha me te whakaute ki a koe e hoa
Hello samuel, do you need video editing guy.
I'm good - thanks
The country is called New Zealand.
Thank you for the information
Jesus is the truth :)
Thanks for the input
Ohhhhh Rhubarb. Don't confuse lack of technology for "kaitiakitanga" and don't generalise. Agriculture captures the ecosystem and increases the carrying capacity.
I find solace in the fact that humans can be a life giving force; the Native Americans of Turtle Island (North America) reshaped their environment to support plant regeneration and the buffalo’s habitat expansion. However, modern industrial farming appears to solely benefit humans. It would be misguided to believe that increasing livestock numbers has had a positive impact on our environment. Not to mention the cruelty towards animals and habitat destruction. Returning to our old ways, more in line with Mother Earth, seems more compassionate to me. Nonetheless, I respect your perspective 🤝
@@SamuelSpadwell said I agree 💯✌️
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Ohhhh lady sthu. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. Ever seen a farm conversion? That ain't capturing the ecosystem. It's altering it. Native fresh water river species have plummeted to near extinction levels and farming has been the biggest thing to bring about their demise. South Island farming used to be like that once upon a time. When they were farming sheep and drystock!! The land WAS being utilised as it stood. Rough and rugged = drystock operations. Then they thought they'd cash in on the milk price and converted them to dairy. Now they have to pump tonnes and tonnes of fertilisers and soil conditioners just to maintain land that was never fit for purpose and in doing so flooded the market with milk products and dropped the Dairy Industry's own pay packets. Farmers have become that dumb to not even know their own have been responsible for their livelihoods dropping and they're bad employers, that not even their own kids want to work in it anymore. It's not the govt policies put in place to clean the waterways up. Cos for starters, they should have never started diverting waterways and draining swamps to begin with. Either work with the land or get off it.
"Capturing the ecosystem" 😂.You're making yourself look like an utter idiot.
Pronounce it right if you want to misappropriate our tikanga..... kai...tee...ah...kee...tanga. Whanua... is Whanau. My opinion will seem harsh. That’s because I’ve been around way longer and keep seeing this happen too many times. Mauri ora.
Hi, I value your feedback. As someone who comes from a position of privilege, I find it very difficult to navigate how to support and uplift other cultures, with dignity and respect. I have strived to do this in my personal reflection to my greatest ability.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for the cultures of indigenous peoples. I find it troubling that we do not speak about them enough. In the US, I was raised to believe that the peoples of Turtle Island were all extinct. That nothing of their cultures remained.
This simply is not true. And I refuse to be complicit anymore in the erasure of cultures as rich, beautiful and meaningful as I’ve seen in the cultures of earth based societies such as that of the Māori. So I’m speaking out, but thank you for your correction.
@@SamuelSpad Nga mihi nui. I knew you most likely had good intentions. But my inner Aunty felt the need to turn this into a teachable moment. It is a very hard space to navigate for both sides.
The Maori came to New Zealand from an island in the pacific nobody is indigenous to New Zealand.
Thank you for bringing that up. You should check out this article, i’ve attached some highlights below: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/are-maori-indigenous-thats-not-the-real-question/
“And while it is true that (New Zealand) Māori people “became Māori” on arrival in our home islands (as people have rightly argued for years), and that this is an aspect of how we understand our specificity, being Indigenous doesn’t hinge on whether people are like an endemic species of plant or bird that only appears in one habitat. If anything, it hinges on a relationship of place and time: Who was where when the colonial project showed up?
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Arguing that Māori aren’t Indigenous is logical if you’re trying to appeal to voters who are concerned that Māori shouldn’t receive “special” and “unfair” treatment. Shorter life expectancy isn’t what I’d describe as special, but there you go. There is, of course, a longstanding obsession on the part of some non-Māori about how unfairly good the treatment of Māori people is in our country. In his short BWB text, Māori historian Peter Meihana has done the work if you want to know more about how assumptions of Māori being privileged is not a recent glitch in the system but part of its design from the start.
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When we focus on arguing about whether or not we’re Indigenous, we risk not addressing why this is even being questioned, which is to suggest that there’s a sneaky or unfair way that Māori people are getting something that we shouldn’t. (That it isn’t ours. That it belongs to someone else - or should do.)
Challenging the idea that we’re Indigenous is a deliberate strategy to reassure certain voters that there are people willing to stand in our parliament and advocate for the deliberate undermining of whatever gains have been made by the blood, sweat, tears and ink of generations. It’s to suggest to the electorate that removing small crumbs that fall from a loaf of bread - a loaf of bread baked in a kitchen that’s been systematically removed from our control - is a heroic, just and fair thing to do.” (Alice Te Punga Somerville)
Indigenous have a better understanding of the land' that is a misconception. Maori had minimal concept' conservation of the environment that is why Moa were to exterminated and extinct prior to any European set foot in New Zealand. Your a foreigner to this land like all of us who live here!!
The Māori, like all Homo sapiens, are imperfect beings. However, their worldview, Te ao Māori, views the land and nature not as a resource to be extracted or exploited, but rather as a living being that we must form relationship with based on reciprocity. Settler colonialism does not operate under this framework. It would be misguided to minimize an entire culture based on one mistake (the extinction of the moa is tragic nevertheless). Settler colonialism however, was repeated numerous times. I encourage you to think more holistically.
No-one mentions the Buffalo....that don't exist anymore because they were mass hunted not by native peoples and not for food, in fact there are pictures, on the internet of piles of their bodies left in the open...and if you tell me the Buffalo that now exist are the same that once roamed the plains of that land, then you need to research...you know nothing about Maori
Woke
"Woke" the buzz word when someone has nothing constructive to offer
@@johngraham5948 lol