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Hīkoi ki Waitangi to stand up for Te Tiriti

By Peter de Grasf of RNZ Controversy over a proposal to redefine the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is expected to breathe new life into an annual...

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Hīkoi ki Waitangi to stand up for Te Tiriti - 'It needs people to participate in its discussion and defence'

Controversy over proposals about the Treaty of Waitangi is expected to breathe new life into an annual hīkoi.

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Letters from Waitangi: Feeling and seeing the majesty of the background

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces the approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for use in New Zealand.
We followed a Crown car along a long gravel road so dry it kicked up impenetrable clouds, caught in morning sun-strike. (When we arrived our rust-coloured SUV was caked in dust that dropped off in clumps when the photographer slammed the rear door.)
Friends, when you have been a reporter for long enough you don’t expect, or want, to feel any emotional response to what you are covering. It is uncool.
When I watched the group of young people from the iwi of Te Taitokerau, of the North, tramping down from the highest spot of the pā, pitted with old trenches from the time of the battle, along a long path to welcome the PM to the site, I experienced a jolt.

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Long-lost graves honoured at Ruapekapeka as Waitangi commemorations begin

Long-lost graves honoured at Ruapekapeka as Waitangi commemorations begin
3 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata accepts a challenge laid down by Cole Kara of Whangaroa. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
More than 700 people gathered on an isolated hilltop south of Kawakawa to remember the victims of a battle 175 years ago as Waitangi commemorations got under way in earnest yesterday.
The dedication of a memorial at Ruapekapeka Pā to 12 British soldiers, whose unmarked grave was rediscovered in 2017, was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's first official engagement of a four-day stay in Northland.

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Community Scoop » Covid Plans In Place For Memorial Ceremony At Te Ruapekapeka Pā

Press Release – Te Ruapekapeka Trust
Te Ruapekapeka Trust are progressing ceremonial plans in remembrance of all those who were involved in the conflict at Te Ruapekapeka Pa, to be held tomorrow, Wednesday 3rd February. The ceremonies will start with a flag raising ceremony on the pa starting …
Te Ruapekapeka Trust are progressing ceremonial plans in remembrance of all those who were involved in the conflict at Te Ruapekapeka Pa, to be held tomorrow, Wednesday 3rd February.
The ceremonies will start with a flag raising ceremony on the pa starting at 6:00am, where hapū are invited to raise their kara (flags) aloft in unison to remember and respect those that fought and fell for their cause.

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We don't need to agree about history to recognise its importance

OPINION: I had the recent privilege of attending part of the three-day celebration to commemorate 175 years since the battle of Ruapekapeka. My prior knowledge of the battle and the context in which it was fought is sadly lacking, despite being descended from many of its participants.
Attending a wananga on the battle at Kawiti Marae in Waiōmio, near Kawakawa, home of the battle’s instigator Te Ruki Kawiti, brought home how little I knew of the motivations, context and relevance of the battle in our early colonial period.
The benefit of studying our own history is that we can literally walk the whenua on which it occurred – at Waiōmio we saw Kawiti’s weapons on display; at the battle site we investigated the holes of the “bat’s nest” and saw his cannon damaged by return fire from the British.

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Te Hononga: Kawakawa's new Hundertwasser-inspired hub is a freedom camper's dream

Zoe Hannah
The facilities are a memorial to artist and architect Hundertwasser.
The spacious car park behind Te Hononga makes the perfect place for freedom campers to recoup before driving further into the Far North or wrestling the drive back to Auckland.
Hundertwasser, the Austrian-born artist famous for his charismatic, unapologetically colourful approach to design and architecture, made New Zealand his home due to his deep desire to be as close to nature as possible.
He is famous for inventive mosaics and the colorful, bulbous columns sprinkled all around Kawakawa. The original toilets he built in Kawakawa, which still function today, are his only building in the southern hemisphere and his last architectural work before his death in 2000.

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Battle of Te Ruapekapeka: Remembrance heals rifts of 175 years ago

Battle of Te Ruapekapeka: Remembrance heals rifts of 175 years ago
11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Hundreds of warriors from around the North Island perform a series of haka during commemorations for the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka.
Video / Peter de Graaf
Hundreds of warriors from around the North Island perform a series of haka during commemorations for the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka.
Video / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
Descendants of opposing sides in a bloody conflict 175 years ago have been brought closer by three days of remembrance, event organisers say.

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Northland news in brief: Six60 play Waitangi, Ruapekapeka battle anniversary and more

Northland news in brief: Six60 play Waitangi, Ruapekapeka battle anniversary and more
10 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Six60, with frontman Matiu Walters, from Whangārei, will play at Waitangi on Saturday.
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Northern Advocate
Six60 play Waitangi
Kiwi music sensations Six60 - with frontman Matiu Walters, from Whangārei, will be taking their Six60 Saturday gig to Waitangi this weekend. Six60 will play at Waitangi Sports Grounds, 1 Tau Henare Drive, Paihia, Bay of Islands, on Saturday. Gates open at 5pm. For tickets go to www.ticketmaster.co.nz.
Ruapekapeka battle anniversary
Many hundreds of people gathered at Ruapekapeka Pā yesterday to mark the 175th anniversary of one of New Zealand's most formative battles. Commemorations of the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka began at 7am yesterday

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Te Ruapekapeka commemoration chance for wider reflection

Te Ruapekapeka commemoration chance for wider reflection
11 Jan 2021 08:51 AM
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As hapū involved in the 1846 battle at Te Ruapekapeka welcome manuhiri to a three-day commemoration, Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Kiri Allan says it’s a chance for all New Zealanders to reflect on the role such conflicts had in creating the nation.
She says the Battle at Te Ruapekapeka Pā, which took place on January 10 and 11 1846, marked the end of the Northern War and was the culmination of the first of a series of conflicts signifying the beginning of the New Zealand Wars.

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