‘It’s about togetherness’: Waitangi Day captures a new audience

‘It’s about togetherness’: Waitangi Day captures a new audience

Source: The Guardian

A groundswell of resistance against the government’s Māori policies is driving many to make the trip to the Waitangi treaty grounds in New Zealand’s far north for the first time

Twenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stands – for the first time – on the narrow bridge connecting New Zealand’s far north coastal town Paihia to the Waitangi treaty grounds, where 185 years ago, Māori chiefs and the British Crown forged a nation state.
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