[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
did not they little bit more did not
good
[Music]
maybe our ha
greetings I’m very nervous / I’m the
result of thousands of ancestors every
younger to be as a walking library when
that what elder is no longer with us
that library disappears as well but
unfortunate that I lived in that library
my grandmother raised me at first
Kippur all the grandmothers here by
acknowledging him Oreo I am Mari it off
anyone I am a person of the land of what
they are WA New Zealand I am the money
wedding I am the visitor on your land I
[Music]
acknowledge your land for receiving me
and my father and my family who were
with me today my journey began
sixty-four years ago in the small
fishing village in New Zealand and
brought me here today to stand on your
beautiful land amongst you beautiful
people for 63 years of my life before I
got here on the other side of the planet
it returned the words indigenous First
Nations native
we mentioned I automatically thought the
Cohens brown and black and then I
arrived on the slain and I’m living
proof that life begins at 63 64 here
that I came to the realization I wake my
wife at 2:30 in the morning because I
indigenous First Nations Native people
on this land my skin so since I’ve been
here I have always acknowledged you
people on this whole continent as
invite every indigenous nation to
recognize the color white whenever those
words are mentioned indigenous First
Nations native the color white must be
the time is now to acknowledge this loss
I’ve been speaking to the people there
and saying reconnect I’ve been told
you’ve lost your ancient culture here
and I mean up north and I’m saying
yes look that way and celebrate other
indigenous cultures but don’t take them
because yours is right in front of you
I’m so fortunate I want to land I’m in a
pea that in a place where you know who
you are needs many parts of Europe they
don’t know searching and as I say while
you’re looking at other indigenous
cultures celebrate those cultures
respect those cultures if you receive a
key then look in front of you because
the door to their ancient culture is
right there but that door will not open
as they’re on this journey but looking
the other way and by acknowledging being
knocked off anyway
indigenous First Nations made by
acknowledging that you’re a Finland
your own land will open and reveal of
because that knowledge is ancient
[Music]
and admit our past mistakes and I say
that because as an indigenous man
we must admit our mistakes as well
that’s the only way we can move forward
together as one with no blame I’ve come
across people with white skin having
guilt cast upon them and that’s not
right because as I said we are not
innocent so that’s up to us to to
acknowledge that and move forward
together it’s self casting blame that’s
the only way we can move forward we live
in a more no existence there I know
people in Australia who have neighbours
they live there for 30 years and don’t
know who their neighbors are but growing
up in a tribal environment if one member
of the tribe feels pain the whole tribe
if one member experiences joy the whole
tribes experiences that joy every elder
his grandfather or grandmother every
elder is auntie or uncle
however we still know who we are we
that’s the tribal environment that we’d
lost but many are meeting over here
bringing it back I recognize I need to
recognize people’s tribes rather than
different nations different countries
and I recognize one identity doesn’t
offend one people of this land and I
acknowledge you people it’s not often
one time so I wanted to be a bunch of
presence our children and their
to pass down our knowledge our great
and our mistakes to pass down to our
children and our grandchildren because
they are the future and as that video
earlier on this afternoon with the
children walking up to strangers and
talking to them whenever a child or a
grandchild sleep
that’s else their future speaking but
most times we don’t listen to our future
because we think we know better but by
passing down all our knowledge to the
grandchildren we’re reaching them we’re
passing that knowledge into a state of
purity and innocence that’s where that
knowledge can come through to come back
through from purity and innocence and
that’s why in my culture the
grandparents raised the first grandchild
because that first grandchild continues
to pass as in my case I’m an ancestor
and waiting so I’ll be passing my
knowledge down to my first grade job
when he or she is born I’ve so honored
to have been here to to listen and to
see the other speakers being so
inspirational to me I would have been
happy to be part of the the audience
just sitting here listening to them
because everything was woven together we
call weaving running the weaving of the
energies the weaving of the people the
weaving of the different tribes and
different races the
nationalities its weaving all of that
into one and then of course the future
of some other speakers have spoken about
and as I said our children their
grandchildren
however one thing I was very which
started me thinking well was gentlemen
here it showed me as I listened to him
that aren’t standing on a land way there
is resistance my people are named for
our resistance we fought for our land
our culture sometimes we win the battle
but we never win the war however we have
a father Toki amore proverb which and I
must acknowledge evil day for a Toki
I’ll say that Maori first is Kolya
motherfucka material which means don’t
die like an octopus die like a hammock
chunk what that represents is that no
matter what challenges life throws at
you instead of rolling over and
accepting it the hammerhead shark will
fight and continue fighting right
through until it reaches through breaks
through and overcomes the challenges
that’s the photo be that I will live by
which is one of the connections we
arrive my family and I arrived in in
Portugal yesterday we did the road trip
and soon as we hit the Portuguese border
my wife felt emotional and we just felt
warmth we felt old energies or feeling
and this is driving the car
old energies but cruise the energies
they were not there we didn’t sense any
stress or anything and it was just an
absolute pleasure to experience the
energies of your length and then of
course to be amongst the people that’s
what has made us fall in love was the
event first thing my wife and daughter
so we’ll certainly be back I must state
Sandra and all the Phoenix team for
actually enabling me to be here speaking
to you people because quite often
wherever I’ve been in Europe I gave the
places and I think what am I doing here
I wait for the reasons and of course
today I’ve had many many reasons to see
why I’m standing here today I see a run
over time so I’ll leave you with one
more for the toki one more profit which
translated into English if I could speak
Portuguese I would have happily done
Hawaii Duarte Nana it is not all fun
colorful funny kahega Taku Commission
hit Kohanga kinda Perdue funny their
four corners to my house the spiritual
the physical the emotional and family if
one corner of my house Falls my whole
house Falls thank you so much for your
[Applause]
[Music]
did not they little bit more did not
good
[Music]
maybe our ha
greetings I’m very nervous / I’m the
result of thousands of ancestors every
younger to be as a walking library when
that what elder is no longer with us
that library disappears as well but
unfortunate that I lived in that library
my grandmother raised me at first
Kippur all the grandmothers here by
acknowledging him Oreo I am Mari it off
anyone I am a person of the land of what
they are WA New Zealand I am the money
wedding I am the visitor on your land I
[Music]
acknowledge your land for receiving me
and my father and my family who were
with me today my journey began
sixty-four years ago in the small
fishing village in New Zealand and
brought me here today to stand on your
beautiful land amongst you beautiful
people for 63 years of my life before I
got here on the other side of the planet
it returned the words indigenous First
Nations native
we mentioned I automatically thought the
Cohens brown and black and then I
arrived on the slain and I’m living
proof that life begins at 63 64 here
that I came to the realization I wake my
wife at 2:30 in the morning because I
indigenous First Nations Native people
on this land my skin so since I’ve been
here I have always acknowledged you
people on this whole continent as
invite every indigenous nation to
recognize the color white whenever those
words are mentioned indigenous First
Nations native the color white must be
the time is now to acknowledge this loss
I’ve been speaking to the people there
and saying reconnect I’ve been told
you’ve lost your ancient culture here
and I mean up north and I’m saying
yes look that way and celebrate other
indigenous cultures but don’t take them
because yours is right in front of you
I’m so fortunate I want to land I’m in a
pea that in a place where you know who
you are needs many parts of Europe they
don’t know searching and as I say while
you’re looking at other indigenous
cultures celebrate those cultures
respect those cultures if you receive a
key then look in front of you because
the door to their ancient culture is
right there but that door will not open
as they’re on this journey but looking
the other way and by acknowledging being
knocked off anyway
indigenous First Nations made by
acknowledging that you’re a Finland
your own land will open and reveal of
because that knowledge is ancient
[Music]
and admit our past mistakes and I say
that because as an indigenous man
we must admit our mistakes as well
that’s the only way we can move forward
together as one with no blame I’ve come
across people with white skin having
guilt cast upon them and that’s not
right because as I said we are not
innocent so that’s up to us to to
acknowledge that and move forward
together it’s self casting blame that’s
the only way we can move forward we live
in a more no existence there I know
people in Australia who have neighbours
they live there for 30 years and don’t
know who their neighbors are but growing
up in a tribal environment if one member
of the tribe feels pain the whole tribe
if one member experiences joy the whole
tribes experiences that joy every elder
his grandfather or grandmother every
elder is auntie or uncle
however we still know who we are we
that’s the tribal environment that we’d
lost but many are meeting over here
bringing it back I recognize I need to
recognize people’s tribes rather than
different nations different countries
and I recognize one identity doesn’t
offend one people of this land and I
acknowledge you people it’s not often
one time so I wanted to be a bunch of
presence our children and their
to pass down our knowledge our great
and our mistakes to pass down to our
children and our grandchildren because
they are the future and as that video
earlier on this afternoon with the
children walking up to strangers and
talking to them whenever a child or a
grandchild sleep
that’s else their future speaking but
most times we don’t listen to our future
because we think we know better but by
passing down all our knowledge to the
grandchildren we’re reaching them we’re
passing that knowledge into a state of
purity and innocence that’s where that
knowledge can come through to come back
through from purity and innocence and
that’s why in my culture the
grandparents raised the first grandchild
because that first grandchild continues
to pass as in my case I’m an ancestor
and waiting so I’ll be passing my
knowledge down to my first grade job
when he or she is born I’ve so honored
to have been here to to listen and to
see the other speakers being so
inspirational to me I would have been
happy to be part of the the audience
just sitting here listening to them
because everything was woven together we
call weaving running the weaving of the
energies the weaving of the people the
weaving of the different tribes and
different races the
nationalities its weaving all of that
into one and then of course the future
of some other speakers have spoken about
and as I said our children their
grandchildren
however one thing I was very which
started me thinking well was gentlemen
here it showed me as I listened to him
that aren’t standing on a land way there
is resistance my people are named for
our resistance we fought for our land
our culture sometimes we win the battle
but we never win the war however we have
a father Toki amore proverb which and I
must acknowledge evil day for a Toki
I’ll say that Maori first is Kolya
motherfucka material which means don’t
die like an octopus die like a hammock
chunk what that represents is that no
matter what challenges life throws at
you instead of rolling over and
accepting it the hammerhead shark will
fight and continue fighting right
through until it reaches through breaks
through and overcomes the challenges
that’s the photo be that I will live by
which is one of the connections we
arrive my family and I arrived in in
Portugal yesterday we did the road trip
and soon as we hit the Portuguese border
my wife felt emotional and we just felt
warmth we felt old energies or feeling
and this is driving the car
old energies but cruise the energies
they were not there we didn’t sense any
stress or anything and it was just an
absolute pleasure to experience the
energies of your length and then of
course to be amongst the people that’s
what has made us fall in love was the
event first thing my wife and daughter
so we’ll certainly be back I must state
Sandra and all the Phoenix team for
actually enabling me to be here speaking
to you people because quite often
wherever I’ve been in Europe I gave the
places and I think what am I doing here
I wait for the reasons and of course
today I’ve had many many reasons to see
why I’m standing here today I see a run
over time so I’ll leave you with one
more for the toki one more profit which
translated into English if I could speak
Portuguese I would have happily done
Hawaii Duarte Nana it is not all fun
colorful funny kahega Taku Commission
hit Kohanga kinda Perdue funny their
four corners to my house the spiritual
the physical the emotional and family if
one corner of my house Falls my whole
house Falls thank you so much for your
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