Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Ko Rangitokona tokona i tche rangiKo Rangitokona tokona i tche ātāKa tu ta pou ki ru pakira o ta rangiKi ru pehore o ta rangiKa tu ta mēmēa-a-nukuKa tu ta mēmēa-a-rangiKa tu ta kahi-a-nukuKa tu ta kahi-a-rangiKa tu ta pouTa pou ka tu ta pou ta pourangi e[Rangitokona holds up the skyRangitokona props up the dawnThe pou stands against the baldness of the skyIt stands against the bareness of the skyIt stands a thought against the earthIt stands a thought against the skyIt stands a wedge against the earthIt stands a wedge against the skyThe pou standsThe pou holds it holds the sky]E ngā mana e ngā rē e ngā rau ieriki-ieriki mā tēnā koutou. I te tuatahi me mihi atu au ki te imi te imi o Rēkohu tēnā koutou. Auē te aroha auē te pai. I tae rātou i tae koutou ki te taumata o te puke. He wā anō mō te okioki kia whai anō te oreore ā ngā moemoeā o te tchakat henu te imi Moriori otirā tēnā koutou katoa. Koia ngā karāpuna i noho waina pono i tiaki i ō rātou nei wāhi tiaki?Me mihi au ki tērā karāpuna ki a Hirawanu Tapu e ngā rangatira taumata i te mea ko ia te tuatahi i i titihia ki Te Kāwanatanga i te tau 1862. Mai i tērā wā tae noa ki tērā wā i haere te imi Moriori ki te whai i te pono i te tika ā te aroha ki roto i ngā tukanga o te Pāremata ki roto i ngā tukanga o te kōti. Haere me pēnei ana ki a te imi Moriori kei konei koutou kei konei ahakoa te rūkahu kei roto i ngā pukapuka hītori ahakoa i hinga ētahi o ngā tūpuna kei konei tonu koutou. Ahakoa i rangona whānui ki roto i ngā taupatupatu āhuatanga o te hītori ngā takahanga o te wā i rangona koutou tēnei mea te kaikiri kei konei tonu kei konei tonu ngā oreore o ngā karāpuna nā Rēkohu.E manawareka mai te hunau i a rātou e whakatau i ā rātou nei i tiaki i ō rātou nei mīheke. I kitea anō mātou ki tērā mai i te wā o te haerenga mātou Te Komiti Whiri i ngā Take Māori ki te Ana a Nunuku. I rangona mātou te mauri i rangona mātou te hītori i rangona mātou te oranga o tēnei mea te rongo ki roto i ngā āhuatanga katoa. I rangona hoki mātou i tautoko au ngā kōrero ki tō Joseph Mooney i te mea i reira tahi mātou ki roto i te uru kopi. I tiro mātou ki runga i ngā rākau ngā waitohu o ngā mātua tīpuna ngā waitohu o ngā karāpuna ngā kōrero tuku iho i mahue ake mai rātou. I rongo mātou i te wairua i rongo mātou i te mauri. He mauri anō e ora ana ki roto i tēnei o ngā pire. Ehara i tēnei pire ākene ka ture nei te tīmatanga me te whakamutunga o tēnei hīkoi o tō tātou nei whānau imi Moriori. Kāo. He wā anō he wā anō kia whai ō rātou nei moemoeā katoa.Me mihi atu au ki a ki tērā whero o rātou ki a Māui Solomon i te mea kua whakapau kaha ia ki roto e hia kē ngā tau ki te whawhai ki ngā motika ki te hāpai atu i te tuakiritanga o tana rē o tōna imi heoi anō i hāpai ana ngā moemoeā o tērā tūpuna o Hirawanu Tapu. Me mihi atu au ki tōna hunau whānui te Hokotehi Moriori Trust. I reira rātou i kōkirihia i whiriwhirihia tēnei kerēme arā ko Tom Lanauze Paul Solomon Grace LeGros me tā rātou nei kaihāpai a Susan Thorpe.Me mihi atu au hoki kua rangona ngā mihi ki te taha o Te Karauna i kōkirihia e Dame Fran Wilde i tōna wā otirā ki ngā Minita Hon Chris Finlayson me Hon Eugenie Sage me ō rātou nei āpiha i te mea ehara tēnei haerenga i te haerenga māmā he haerenga nā te ngākau heoi anō he haerenga nā runga i te waka e ekeeke ana ki runga i te moana.Ko ētahi o ngā kōrero i puta mai i a mātou e haere ana ki te Rēkohu ko tēnei pire he pūtake ko tēnei pire he tūāpapa he tūāpapa i taea te hanga i tō rātou nei whare te whare o ngā imi Moriori. I kite ā-kanohi mātou i te ātaahua o tō rātou nei marae Te Kōpinga. I rangona mātou te manawa reka o te kai i rangona ō mātou nei puku te reka o te hōhonu o te kai moana ā nō reira ko tērā te tauira ka whakaturea ki roto i tēnei pire heoi anō he nui ngā mahi ki mua i te aroaro ki tēnei o ngā imi.Ko tētahi kōrero i puta mai ki te whakangungu i tō rātou nei rē i tō rātou nei reo ki te whakangungu anō hoki ki roto i ngā āhuatanga o te marau ki roto i te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga nō reira e harikoa ana ahau kei konei te Minita Tuarua o Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga ki konei ki te whakarongo ki ngā kōrero i te mea mēnā ka whai wāhi tātou ki te whakatika i te hītori te kino te rūkahu ki roto i ngā hītori kia whakahōnore tātou i ngā kōrero tuku iho o ngā imi Moriori ka tika tō tātou haere o te waka. He uri anō tēnei nō Te Tai Tokerau otirā he uri anō hoki tēnei nō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. I reira i te wā i tae atu au ki tērā o ngā whenu kei te whakaaro ake au ki aku nei hononga i te wā e haere ana au ki ngā wāhi kē atu ki Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. I mea mai ētahi o ngā mema i te wā i te uru kopi me te mea atu Ehara tēnei wāhi ko Aotearoa—ehara tēnei wāhi ko Aotearoa. Nō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa kē tēnei wāhi nō Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa kē ngā uri o te imi o ngā Tchakat Henu o Rēkohu." I a au e haere i rongo au i tērā mauri i te mea i hoki ngā mahara i te wā i haere au ki ētahi o ngā moutere puta noa i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa i a au e haere ana ki te tihi o te Tapa Whā o Poronēhia ki Hawaii te noho tata me ngā kanaka Maoli. I a au e haere ana ki ētahi atu o ngā moutere ki roto i te Tapa Whā o Poronēhia me te whakaaro ake ahakoa kei tawhiti rātou kei te rongo tonu i tērā wairua i tērā mauri ki roto i te whenua o Rēkohu i te mea ko te whenua kei te whenua tōna reo kei te moana tōna reo kei te uru kopi tōna reo.I a au e whakarongo ana au ki te rē o Rēkohu ka whakaaro ake au ko te whenua tēnei e kōrero ana ki a tātou i tēnei wā. I a au i rongo ki o te take o ō rātou nei kupu ko te rē o te kohu i whakamārama mai tētahi ki a mātou ko tērā anō ko te reo o te kohu ko te reo o te kohu e kōrero ana ki a mātou i te wā i haere mātou Te Komiti Whiri Take Māori ki Rēkohu.Nō reira me mutu au ki runga i te hari me te koa me mutu au ki runga i te hari i te koa me whakaaro ana ahau i te mea ka whai wāhi ō tātou nei hunau imi Moriori mō tēnei pire te whakatū tūāpapa te whakatū pūtake kia hāpai atu i tō rātou nei tuakiri kia hāpai atu ō rātou nei rē ki roto i ngā marau o Aotearoa whānui kia hāpai atu i ō rātou nei uri e noho marara ana ki ngā moutere o Aotearoa nei kia whai wāhi kia hoki mai rātou ki Rēkohu. Me te whakaaro anō ko tēnei pire e turehia i tēnei wā i whakarite i tētahi waka anō mō rātou i whakarite i tētahi waka anō mō rātou. Nō reira me oti au ki runga i tērā o ngā kōrero. Ko te tūmanako ko tēnei pire e turehia ana i tēnei wā kei te whai ngā oreore o ngā karāpuna kia whai okioki ki roto i ngā taumahatanga o tēnei haerenga kia hāpai ake ō tātou nei hunau imi Moriori. Tēnā tātou katoa.[To the authorities to the voices to all the esteemed leaders greetings. Firstly I wish to greet the people the people of the Chatham Islands welcome. Oh the love oh the goodness. They have gained you have gained the summit. There are times appropriate for rest so that activity and the dreams of the indigenous people the Moriori can be pursued once more and so I acknowledge you all. They are the ancestors who remained faithful in caring for their sacred places.My distinguished chiefs I must acknowledge a certain ancestor called Hirawanu Tapu because he was the first to be a scribe to the Government in 1862. From that day to that time the Moriori people have continued to pursue truth justice and compassion within the parliamentary and judicial processes.So I must say this to the Moriori people you are here you are here despite the lies found in the history books and despite the fact that some of your ancestors have passed away you are still here. Although the transgressions of that time were widely heard in debates about the history you have experienced hostility yet you are still here you are still here the reverberations of the ancestors of the Chatham Islands.The family of the Chatham Islands seemed pleased when they welcomed/decided upon their they took care of their taonga (treasures). We saw that again at the time when we the Māori Affairs Committee went to visit Nunuku's Cave. We felt the life force we heard the history and we sensed the wellbeing of peace in everything. We also felt—and I support the comments to Joseph Mooney because we were there together in the karaka grove. We saw on the trees the symbols of the old people the symbols of the ancestors the traditional messages/narratives which they left behind. We felt the spirit and the life force. There is life force as well living in this bill. This bill which will soon be enacted is not the be all and end all of the journey for our family the Moriori people. No. There will be a time another time for them to pursue all of their dreams.I must acknowledge their chief Māui Solomon because he has given his all over many many years to fight for their rights and to elevate the identity of his language and people and so shouldering the dreams of the ancestor Hirawanu Tapu. I must also acknowledge his wider family the Hokotehi Moriori Trust. They were there negotiating and driving this claim forwards namely Tom Lanauze Paul Solomon Grace LeGros and their supporter Susan Thorpe.I must also acknowledge and we have heard those acknowledgments to the Crown side which was driven by Dame Fran Wilde in her time and also to the Ministers and indeed the Hon Chris Finlayson and the Hon Eugenie Sage with their officials because this journey is not an easy journey it is heart-driven however a voyage on a vessel which is traversing the ocean.Some of the things that we said when we were travelling on the Chatham Islands are that this bill will be a base a foundation upon which they can build their house the house of the Moriori people. We saw the beauty of their marae Te Kōpinga in person. We tasted the satisfaction of the food our bellies tasted the deliciousness of the vast seafood and therefore that is the example which is being legislated within this bill. However there is much work ahead for this people.One of the other themes that came up was to protect their language and also to protect it within the features of the Ministry of Education curriculum and so I am pleased that the Associate Minister of Education is here to listen to the discussion because if we have an opportunity to correct the history the harm and the falsehoods in the histories to honour the traditional narratives of the Moriori people then our vessel will progress well.I hail from Te Tai Tokerau and also hail from the Pacific. Over there when I arrived in that land I thought about my connections when I was travelling to other places in the Pacific. Some of the members said to me while we were in the karaka grove "This place is not New Zealand—this place is not New Zealand. This place belongs to the Pacific Ocean as do the descendants of the tribe the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands." As I was travelling I felt that life force because it reminded me of the time I travelled to some of the islands all around the Pacific Ocean and when I was travelling to the tip of the Polynesian square to Hawaii to stay with the indigenous Hawaiians. While I was travelling to some of the islands in the Polynesian square I thought however distant they are I still feel that spirit and life force in the land of the Chatham Islands because the land the land has its language the ocean has its language and the karaka grove has its language.When I am listening to the language of the Chatham Islands I think this is the land talking to us right now. When I heard the origins of their words "language of the mist"—"rē o te kohu"—someone explained to us that is also the language of the mist the language of the mist was speaking to us when we of the Māori Affairs Committee went to Rēkohu.I finish with a sense of joy and delight—I finish with a sense of joy and delight—and thinking because our Moriori people family will have the opportunity through this bill to build a base and a foundation to elevate their identity and their language in the wider New Zealand Curriculum and to also support their descendants who are living scattered around the islands of New Zealand in order to find a way for them to return to the Chatham Islands. And also with the idea that this bill being enacted at this time will provide another means for them—will provide another means for them.Therefore I will finish on that comment. I hope that this bill currently being enacted is equipped with the movements of the ancestors so they can have rest within the difficulties of this journey to elevate our family of Moriori people. Greetings one and all.]"