2020 WEBINARS

Kaikōrero: Bev Tso Hong, Kirsten Wong, Tze Ming Mok, Mengzhu Fu Ringa Hāpai: Valance Smith How have Chinese in Aotearoa supported tino rangatiratanga and their own self-determination? We explore the pathways trod so far, the current day implications for our communities, and visions of where this may lead for a different kind of equitable, cohesive and Tiriti-based society. This webinar was recorded on Tuesday 22nd March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Haami Piriri, Tui Qauqau Te Paa Ringa Hāpai: Valance Smith History has shown a pattern of skulduggery around the purchase of land by government and settlers throughout the colonisation of Aotearoa. This “skulduggery” continues today under the pretence of sub-divisions and resource consents that exclude Māori from consultation processes. Councils’ plans and frameworks are full of rhetoric about being good treaty partners, understanding Treaty rights and working together… these words only adorn the pages of these plans and higher-level government documents with superficial substance. Putting action to these “Council and government documents” is what the hapū of Ahipara are striving to achieve. Whānau have been occupying whenua in Ahipara for 126 days. The whenua is known as Morangai/Moringai. This land was sub-divided and Clough and Associates Archaeological Report, 2004 clearly identified the pā site as a place of recognised cultural significance. Environmental Court, Judge Newhook re-issued consent with conditions in 2005, also clearly identifying areas of cultural significance and gave clear directives on how the developer should proceed within these areas. To the dismay of whānau the directives and conditions were not monitored by Council leading to breaches that have never been addressed. Our tūpuna declared this place to be tapu in nature and of deep cultural significance, but their objections were ignored beginning in 1868 and continuing to the present day. The iwi considers this wāhi tapu to have been desecrated and conditions in the consent have not been followed. This webinar tells the story of the current Ahipara occupation, the quest for the return of the whenua and the failure of promised government protections. This webinar was recorded on Thursday 24th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Aaron Smale, Jean Te Huia, Professor Thalia Anthony Ringa Hāpai: Nicole Coupe Canada, United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand have several factors in common. We all have a population of Indigenous peoples who are marginalised, exploited and ignored. We were all colonised by the British. As indigenous peoples we have all suffered the same fates and bear the same scars. Our traditional languages, family structures and cultural and religious beliefs have been, and continue to be deliberately eroded. Traditional birthing, health and wellbeing structures were attacked, destroyed, and renamed. Our children continue to be the subject of ongoing colonial policy that has become a multi-billion dollar growth industry in each country, for non-indigenous peoples and ensures intergenerational trauma for indigenous populations, which is ongoing, even today. Colonial constructs of Indigenous children and families pervade the practices of child protection and detention institutions. We argue that such constructs inform a carceral logic that underpin the state’s interventions across the settler colonies of Aotearoa, Australia, the US and Canada. This contributes to high levels of child removals from families in the child protection system and the incarceration of Indigenous children in youth detention. We call for a radical response that decolonises the deficit discourses towards Indigenous children and displaces state institutions with self-determination and sovereignty. This webinar was recorded on Monday 23rd March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Professor Tim McCreanor, Professor Dominic O'Sullivan, Heather Came, Jacquie Kidd. Ringa Hāpai: Professor Judith McAra-Couper The Crown has a long history of directly and indirectly breaching Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In 2020 Māori and non-Māori scholars developed Critical Tiriti Analysis to assess policy compliance with Te Tiriti. Critical Tiriti Analysis reviews documents against five elements of Te Tiriti – preamble, three written articles and oral article. The process requires orientation to the document; closer examination against the elements; determination against set indicators; suggestions to improve policy; and Māori final assessment. Critical Tiriti Analysis has been utilised by activists, policy-makers, scholars, and several Crown agencies to inform policy development, evaluation and planning strategies. Critical Tiriti Analysis provides direction to practitioners wanting to address social and health inequities and ensure Indigenous engagement, leadership and substantive authority in policy/planning/evaluation processes. It is simple to use and inherently a tool for advancing social justice. This webinar was recorded on Monday 26th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Professor Cindy Blackstock Ringa Hāpai: Toni Shepherd This presentation shares the story of how children joined the Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations as active human rights defenders in a landmark human rights legal case against the Canadian government to fix discriminatory shortfalls in First Nations children's public services dating back to Confederation. The combination of litigation and a child centred social movement has resulted in First Nations children and families receiving millions of services that they would otherwise have been denied. While Canada continues to resist and litigate, it is clear that this generation of children have not normalized the colonial discrimination and will not support any government that puts up with it. Links from Webinar: Music video: Spirit Bear & Friends - A LOVE WE KNOW: https://youtu.be/0jwEfp2FuYA The Great Dying: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261 Read about the case on First Nations child welfare and Jordan's Principle: https://fncaringsociety.com/what-you-can-do/ways-make-difference/i-am-witness Mosquito Advocacy: https://www.ecaconference.com.au/2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Cindy_Blackstock-Keynote-Workshop.pdf https://books.google.co.nz/books? hl=en&lr=&id=h9rcAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA219&dq=mosquito+advocacy&ots=tCBRbtjePh&sig=XU9fKaOl8U0alZ08iJz1T1NXpm8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=mosquito%20advocacy&f=false How to frame your message: Book: Lakoff, G. (2014). The all new don't think of an elephant! : Know your values and frame the debate (2014). Chelsea Green Publishing. Website: https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/ Gapminder: https://www.gapminder.org/ Moral Courage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLcqw1jHO-piuquHVGt0O68cESdy2vpIre Mind Control and Colonisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYHuBgR-Otk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cindy-blackstock-on-justice-for-first-nation-children/id1434096503?i=1000434215130 Assembly of Seven Generations Call to Honour the Rights of Indigenous Children and Youth: https://fncaringsociety.com/sites/default/files/accountability_in_our_lifetime.pdf Support for Frontline Defenders: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/ Spiriti Bear School: https://fncaringsociety.com/spirit-bear This webinar was recorded on Sunday 27th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith Ringa Hāpai: Krystal Te Rina Warren Prof Linda Tuhiwai Smith is a scholarly rangatira. Her best-selling book Decolonising Methodologies revolutionised Māori research. She was a member of Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa, was part of establishing Te Kura Kaupapa Maori at Hoani Waititi and a founding member of the Te Aho Matua teaching philosophy. She has remained at the scholarly front-lines championing Māori and Indigenous research and education. Linda has shaped the way many of us think and talk about research and/or decolonisation. In this Q&A session Linda shares her hopes and aspirations for the future of indigenous research. She expands on what decolonisation in research is, offers advice to those working in institutions; both Māori and Pākehā. She reflects on the struggle now and the impact of digitisation, and emphasises the need to support our rangatahi; giving advice to upcoming academics/activists. Finally, she encourages us all not to think of this mahi as heavy – it is positive, it is inter-generational, and take heart – it is worth doing – if you don’t do this, what do you do?! This webinar was recorded on Sunday 27th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Professor Janine Hayward Ringa Hāpai: Professor Keith Tudor Professor Janine Hayward approaches this discussion of Treaty Principles as a fascinating case study of power, particularly in relationship to power in Te Tiriti. They address the questions: Why not just make Te Tiriti law? Who decides what the Principles are? and What are some examples of these Principles? They provide a timeline of the evolution of The Treaty Principles through 2 different avenues: the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal and the Courts; explaining how the Crown has intervened by directing Courts to limit the Principles to ‘consultation’. They explore the controversies, legacy and future of the Principles. Professor Janine Hayward states that the Principles have never touched the Crown’s power and they never will. Because they are essentially a tool of the Crown. Ultimately, she names the elephant-in-the-room: If Māori did not cede sovereignty (as confirmed by the Te Paparahi o te Raki Tribunal Report), and the Crown is still hanging on to its sovereignty – where do we go with that? This webinar was recorded on Saturday 26th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020

Kaikōrero: Professor Camille Nakhid, Sereana Naepi, Professor Mohan Dutta Ringa Hāpai: Professor Jarrod Haar In this Q&A session we consider how racism manifests in the neoliberal environment of settler universities and how scholars who operate in the margins and peripheries of those institutions might disrupt, unsettle or trouble the centres of power, privilege and influence that regulate and monitor everyday academic life. We draw on our experiences to examine the consequences of disrupting and exposing embedded racism and microaggressions and to determine how we can dismantle the existing organisation of knowledge and control in higher education to rebuild one forged from principles of equity. This webinar was recorded on Thursday 24th March during the Te Tiriti-based Futures & Anti-racism 2022 online conference held 19-28 March 2022, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Website: https://www.tiritibasedfutures.info/ Transcript: Join the conversation in our Facebook group: http://bitly.com/decol2020