REMEMBERING TREMAIN
- Administrator
- Mar 26
- 1 min read
Here's a pearler from 20 years ago:
The ever self-serving Winston Peters described then National Party leader Don Brash's questioning of whether Maori remained a distinct indigenous people as "evil".
INDIGENOUS
The Oxford English Dictionary:
Born or originating in a particular place; spec. (now often with capital initial) designating a people or group inhabiting a place before the arrival of (European) settlers or colonisers.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
of, relating to, or descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized.
The Cambridge Dictionary
existing naturally or having always lived in a place; native:
The Navajos are among the indigenous people of North America.
My great grandfather came out to Gabriel's Gully in 1867, as a newly qualified solicitor looking for adventure, and no doubt gold, in both senses of the word.
We have no Maori blood in our family, as far as I know, but I reckon I've got more right than most here to call myself a New Zealander.
Our family has been through hard times at various times, especially the 1930s, but we have survived - you just have to play the hand you are dealt and try and improve your game from, sometimes hard, experience.
Life is a glorious, stimulating, fabulous war of sorts.
Learn how to fight and enjoy the spoils with those close to you.
Expect nothing from…
Any race calling themselves "indigenous" in NEW ZEALAND, using the original meaning of the word, (Meaning, originating from.) are pushing the proverbial uphill with a piece of wet rope.
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass: A word means what the speaker wants it to mean at a particular moment.
This tactic has held NZ back in recent decades and may yet sink the country.
It is a total scam from which to benefit. Maori are indigenous to Hawaiki. Wherever that was.