Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Nov 14, 2024

I LOVE this so much. Maori MPs in the New Zealand parliament protest attempts by the centre-right government and far-right "ACT" coalition partners to pass legislation that water down treaty rights of Maori.

New Zealand is one of the only places (the only?) in the British Empire where the Crown signed a treaty with all Indigenous peoples at the time of contact. It has shaped NZ Law and Society ever since!

Thank you to @b9AcE for the video.
#NZPoli #IndigenousRights #CanPoli

Show threadPeter BrownNov 15, 2024
@chris @b9AcE plenty of treaties were made and signed with the native tribes of North America but 95% of them there were subsequently broken by the Europeans as they moved further west.
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@peterbrown @b9AcE that's correct, but NZ has the distinction of being the only place where what became the entire country, the Indigenous population signed a treaty en masse and as you said, held the British Crown to it.
Nov 15, 2024 at 3:02amWeb
Show threadPeter BrownNov 15, 2024

@chris @b9AcE interesting. I hadn’t realised that.

Well done for holding them to their treaty. Scotland hasn’t managed that.

Show threadb9AcENov 15, 2024

@peterbrown
That was the entire video via Aryen TV (feminist, pro-diversity, secular, etc opposition to the Iran-regime satellite TV, transmitting from Sweden) and also matched the same published via one of the two major evening papers in Sweden, so I would guess it's the entirety as distributed by/via AP, Reuters or similar.

I did see @blogdiva say they had boosted a bunch of versions of the video, so maybe you can find more there.
@chris