WEBINAR: Kia mau tonu ki taku Ukaipo - Protecting my Patch!

🌱 Kaikōrero / Speaker: Sharon Aroha Hawke
🌱 Ringa hāpai / Chair: Boyd Broughton

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by two peoples who to this day feel ripped-off by the other, yet the power imbalance of the British partner consolidates the tentacles of colonisation cannot easily be “30 seconds – walk away”.

No disinfectant or chemically enhanced wash can rid the toxins of ignorance and cultural genocide. We need to celebrate the resilience of Māori and the fight-back nature they have carried over many generations but how do we decolonise our own thinking and behaviours and cease accepting that we as Iwi must always take the lower position; accept the compromise.

When do we take our foot off the brakes and call out the racism in every institution – this feels like the 1980’s revisited. What do you think?

★ SHARON AROHA HAWKE ★
Ngāti Whatua Orakei; Ngati Mahuta
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Sharon was first exposed to protest on the 1975 Land March at the age of 13. Her father led the Bastion Point occupation in 1977-78, for 506 days, attended nuclear free and independent conferences in Fiji and Vanuatu and she attended several Hikoi to Waitangi, anti-Springbok tour march during 1981, Hikoi 1984, Youth March 1981, Homosexual law reform marches and recently visited Ihumatao with a large bucket of puha from Grey Lynn.

Racism has been an everyday experience through her tertiary studies of Science and Health Science and film/tv career of 23 years. She produced Native Affairs for Māori Television in its first three seasons.

She retired from camera and producing in 2010 and entered into the world of iwi governance which she spends full time protecting the settlement for Ngāti Whatua Orakei as an elected representative. Writing has come to the fore for her in many forms and she dabbles in poetry in her spare time.

You will often find her on the sea as she paddles waka ama more seriously than most. She has a loving partner who has recently been appointed to the judiciary and a 15 year old daughter whose first language is Māori. She wants to one day grow kumara and go fishing everyday with her mother on a boat on the Waitemata.

★LIVESTREAM DETAILS ★

Here the links you need to participate on Saturday. Please register so we can keep you up-to-date with any changes or notices.

Livestream: http://bit.ly/decol2020-livestream
Discussion/Q&A on Te Tiriti-based Futures Facebook group: http://bit.ly/decol2020-discuss