March 07, 2016
Auckland University Historian and Waitangi Tribunal member Aroha Harris on Paakiwaha
Auckland University Historian and Waitangi Tribunal member Aroha Harris on Paakiwaha
Aroha Harris has said that claimants don't have to look eternally good.
She says there has always been a tendency to cast Maori as always on the side of right and always good, versus colonisation and colonisers as always bad. But she says it's much much more complicated than that.
Aroha Harris says you don't have to have perfect tupuna who never did anything wrong. We should try and have honest discussions and not let a search for or an insistence on always looking good drive what people are trying to achieve in front of the Tribunal.
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