Te Arikinui<\/a> delivered the kauwhau in te reo M\u0101ori, and the office of the Kiingitanga provided translations which reflected in English the sentiment she carried.<\/p>\n“We are descendants of Raupatu. But we must also become Toa o te Rauora,” Te Arikinui said.<\/p>\n
“Rauora is more than recovery. It is revival. It is the full expression of who we are and who we can become.<\/p>\n
“It is our tamariki growing up strong in their reo, their whakapapa and their potential, knowing they can stand anywhere in the world without leaving behind who they are.<\/p>\n
At\u00a0Koroneihana, Te\u00a0Arikinui\u00a0issued a challenge to M\u0101ori that looks beyond past grievances and toward a different future.\u00a0 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“It is our wh\u0101nau healthy and secure. Our people owning homes, building wealth, creating businesses and institutions, growing leaders and determining our own future.<\/p>\n
“It is our whenua and wai flourishing alongside us.<\/p>\n
“And it is M\u0101ori looking beyond the challenges of today to the possibilities of tomorrow, leading in technology, innovation, enterprise, science, energy and industries yet to be imagined.”<\/p>\n
Te Arikinui drew on the words of her t\u016bpuna Kiingi Tawhiao, asking what his hope that his mokopuna would prosper and thrive should look like today.<\/p>\n
“Rauora is not simply having a place in the future. It is having the strength, confidence and imagination to shape it. A people alive with possibility. That is Rauora.”<\/p>\n
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Te Arikinui delivered the kauwhau in te reo M\u0101ori, and the office of the Kiingitanga provided translations which reflected in English the sentiment she carried. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n
She said kotahitanga did not mean M\u0101ori would always agree, but meant being able to disagree without diminishing or dividing one another.<\/p>\n
“Let us spend less of our strength fighting one another and more of it building what our people need.”<\/p>\n
Te Arikinui grew up in the shadow of Raupatu, as did many of her generation.<\/p>\n
“Raupatu is part of our story. It must never become the limit of our story.”<\/p>\n
She said M\u0101ori would never forget what happened, but the burden of the past could not be allowed to determine how far future generations could go.<\/p>\n
She questioned whether it was enough for some M\u0101ori to prosper while too many wh\u0101nau continued to struggle with the basics.<\/p>\n
“Surely our t\u016bpuna wanted more for us than survival.<\/p>\n
She challenged M\u0101ori to stop asking only what had happened to them, and instead ask what they would do now.<\/p>\n
“The question for us is no longer only what happened to us; it is also: What will we do now? When do we decide that what we inherited will not be what we hand on?<\/p>\n
“When do we say, ‘The trajectory changes with us’?”<\/p>\n
Te Arikinui said the circumstances M\u0101ori were born into should not determine the limits of their lives.<\/p>\n
“E ruhi m\u0101, e koro m\u0101, tamariki m\u0101, mokopuna m\u0101: Koinei te r\u0101. This is the day. This is the day I say: Raupatu was part of the world I was born into, but Raupatu is not all that I am. I am an uri of Raupatu, but I will be a toa of Rauora. Ka puta. Ka ora,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I will not allow the circumstances into which I was born to determine the limits of my life. I will learn. I will work. I will lead. I will build. And I will leave something stronger for those who come after me. Koinei te r\u0101.<\/p>\n
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Te Arikinui, the M\u0101ori Queen, gave her royal address as she marks her second Koroneihana. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“E koro, Raupatu, rest here. You have brought us this far. I will never forget you. There will be times when I reach for you again and draw strength from you. But today, let the burden fall from our shoulders.”<\/p>\n
Te Arikinui has urged M\u0101ori to look within their own wh\u0101nau, and become living and breathing examples of health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n
“Aku toa o te Rauora, now it is our turn. Maranga mai r\u0101. Rise. Rise from poverty, from dependency, from the belief that somebody else must determine our future.<\/p>\n
There will be successes. There will be setbacks. But we are not powerless. We are descendants of Raupatu. Now let us be champions of Rauora.<\/p>\n
“The time has come for our pakeke to guide and strengthen a generation that is courageous, capable and ready. And the time has come to stop believing that our future sits entirely in the hands of government.<\/p>\n
“Government has responsibilities. Those responsibilities must be honoured. But we also have responsibilities to ourselves and to those who come after us.<\/p>\n
“We must build our own whare. Our reo, our taiao, our hauora and our p\u0101 harakeke are foundations for that future. Our Kotahitanga gives us the strength to build it together.”<\/p>\n
She acknowledged that government still had responsibilities to M\u0101ori, but said M\u0101ori also had responsibilities to themselves and those who would come after them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po has called on M\u0101ori to change the trajectory for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4432,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-590841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-maori-issues","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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