Eru Kapa-Kīngi: hīkoi organiser says nine-day event about more than boycotting Treaty Principles Bill

Organisers of a hīkoi making its way down the country to Wellington say it's about more than just opposing the Treaty Principles Bill. 

Marchers are still north of Whangarei, and expect to be in the Capital between Monday and Tuesday next week. 

Organiser Eru Kapa-Kīngi says the hīkoi's true purpose is to defend Te Tiriti of Waitangi - and he explained the bill was just part of a bigger ignorance about what the Treaty really means. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the nine day National Hikoi opposing David Siema's Treaty
Principal's Bill has started its journey to Parliament's grounds. Police
preparing for twenty five thousand people. Protest organizers are hoping
for forty thousand. HIKOI leader Eru Kapakini is with me now,
he Eru, Yeah, Connor, where are you guys at in
the country.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
We're just north of Falgon at the moment. But I
just want to make a few corrections of sequis and
about the treaty principles. Though it's about tvty or White
Tonguey and that's not a protest, it's an activation of
TV marty.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh, so what are you talking about the treaty for?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Because it's a constitutional document that protects the Mona but
also as well allowed non Mary to make a home here.
And we're reminding everyone that lives on these lands of
that truth and standing in that power and that manna
through every step of the sequoy.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's got nothing at all to do with the Treaty
Principal's Bill.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Not nothing but a very minor part. Because the Treaty
Principal's Bill is but a blink of an eye in
the pursuit of and it's really just a symptom of
a long how ignorance around the truth OFTTI to your
white thinging. And so that's all we're reclaiming. We're not reacting,
but we are responding. But that plays a very little part,

(01:14):
and the sequey and the sequels as a platform for deeper,
meaningful change in for but also all people's to be
able to live on the land and truly thrive in
the land where no one has left behind.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Cool. Okay, So is that why you're not meeting with
David Seamore because it's actually not about his bill, This
is just about general good vibes around the treaty.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, I think that's oversimplifying at talking about general good vibes.
This is the mamma of my ancestors. I mean, this
is a mama there.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, But is that why you're not meeting with David Seeman.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I haven't been asked to meet with David seymore So,
I don't know why there would be an insinuation that
I've refused any invite.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I didn't I hear you this morning on the radio
saying you don't want to be at as Beacon cool.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
No. The question was whether I would consider an invitation
to meet with him, and I said no, Well I
haven't actually invited to speak with them.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Okay, how many people are you hoping to get?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm Allian Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Here, thank you, good luck. Erew Kappakini Hikoy leader fun Guy.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
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