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This Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry explores "Tāngata Tiriti" (People of the Treaty) as a settler/invader identity term in Aotearoa New Zealand. Derived from the failed policy platform of "biculturalism" and "Indigenous inclusion," Tāngata Tiriti is a byproduct of neoliberalism and settler/invader colonialism that fails to provide for Indigenous inclusion, mana motuhake (Indigenous sovereignty) and tino rangatiratanga (self-determination). This article argues that Tāngata Tiriti should be abandoned due to the 2014 paradigm shift surrounding Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti) and mana motuhake from the Te Paparahi o Te Raki report and the author's subsequent research on non-signatory hapū and iwi. Pākehā settler/invader perspectives on Tāngata Tiriti are compared with Tāngata Moana and Asian scholarly understandings. The author advocates adopting Tāngata Moana thinking around letting Māori as mana whenua lead "wayfinding" and "meaning-making" to define allyship and promote a "collective future" together based on Māori constitutional values that are generally universal throughout Pacific cultures. Instead of settler/invader identity constructs and the doctrine of the nation as a White possession, movement toward a collective future must begin from a place of sovereign relationality. The pedagogy of teaching Te Tiriti must change, the ill-conceived Tāngata Tiriti identity must be abandoned, and "New Zealand" as a settler/invader colonial enterprise must end. Our future must be post-settler/invader colonial and post-Tiriti and must recognize unceded mana motuhake or sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the waiata tangi (lament), commonly known as 'E Pā To Hau.' Written by Rangiamoa of Ngāti Apakura after the attrocities committed by British soldiers at Rangiaowhia. It seeks to describe settler colonialism in terms of elimination, greif and dispossession. It argues that the waiata understands these concepts in very deep ways. The research utilises Whakaaro Based Philsophy and method to dissect the waiata for its philosophy and theory. This is done by exploring the literature on waiata, haka, and cultural memory as indigenous text and analysing the famous waiata tangi (lament) by Rangiamoa called 'E Pā To Hau' that was written in the aftermath of Rangiaowhia. A background on the events at Rangiaowhia is provided. Theoretically, it outlines the case for refering to 'settler colonialism' as 'invader colonialism' and the relationship of remembering to resistence. It also supports the call for terming the events at Rangiaowhia a 'war crime' as recently discussed in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a critical critique of alt/far-right political thought on indigenous issues in Aotearoa New Zealand. In doing so it examines the opening preface of the published work, One Treaty, One Nation entitled, 'Some of the Myths on which the Treaty Industry is Based' by emerging alt/far-right publisher, Tross Publishing. A selection of five of the twenty-three so-called myths put forward by the authors are considered. The work is grounded in sociological thought with an exploration of the relevance of Australian Aboriginal academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson's White Possessive Doctrine and Veracini's commentary of 'On Settling', and Goulet's development economics. This piece ends by engaging and providing commentary on what the collective future of Aotearoa New Zealand should look like based on these recent developments in moving towards a collective future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]