#maori-rights

#maori-rights

You could begin with his formative school years at the foot of Te Urewera ranges, where he was made to write the lines I will not speak Maori as punishment for speaking his language lines that have since become a prominent feature of his art and activism. Or the time he pitched a tent outside parliament, his hair long, his face not yet lined with his distinctive full-face tattoo, and pronounced it the Maori embassy, making front page news.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days.