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Seriously WTF people! It's 2023, not 1923, why the vitriol against tangata whenua telling the stories of their history!?!

"Durie said the majority of comments over social media had been extremely vocal against tangata whenua, even going as far as death threats."

rnz.co.nz/news/national/482889

RNZManawatū: Ngāti Kauwhata to meet with 'Settlers Day' event organisersBy Pokere Paewai

Speaking of which, I was wondering what this monument was as I've walked past it over the past couple of days.

Strypey

Turns out it's a monument to the people who killed tangata whenua and enforced the illegal confiscation of their land and imprisonment of their people, many of whom were then used as slave labour until they died. No alternation has been made to this park to provide this context, or to honour the indigenous people who died defending their autonomy and trying to get the British colonisers to honour the treaty they'd made.

Shame.