Te Pāti Māori MP Hana Rawhiti Maipi Clarke has urged Indigenous youth to kick down the doors of colonisation.
Speaking at the One Young World Summit in Montreal, Canada where she was given a Politician of the Year award, the Hauraki Waikato MP said she never walked alone, which is why she brought her family, her kura and her party with her.
She paid tribute to her grandparents for opening the gates which allowed her to kick down the door.
“As Indigenous nations around the world we have to come together to kick down the door for Palestine, for Lebanon, for West Papua, for Sudan, for Kanaky, for the lands and seas that bind us. of Pacific children, don’t ever forget – we are the original navigators of the world. If our ancestors could navigate the biggest ocean, we can navigate anything,” Ms Maipi-Clarke says.
