{"id":13698,"date":"2020-02-04T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/05\/the-treaty-of-waitangi-was-forged-to-exclude-maori-women-we-must-right-that-wrong"},"modified":"2020-02-04T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:00:41","slug":"the-treaty-of-waitangi-was-forged-to-exclude-maori-women-we-must-right-that-wrong-emma-espiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13698","title":{"rendered":"The treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude M\u0101ori women \u2013 we must right that wrong | Emma Espiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The signing of the treaty marks the point at which M\u0101ori women began to be written out of history<\/p>\n<p><em>This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from <\/em>M\u0101ori<em> writers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year I\u2019m not interested in the symbolism of what Jacinda Ardern does or doesn\u2019t do or say at Waitangi. I\u2019m looking to the Mana W\u0101hine Kaupapa inquiry. Nearly 30 years since it was instigated, the inquiry investigates the role of the Crown in contributing to the disadvantage that has inequitably burdened w\u0101hine M\u0101ori since the Treaty was signed. At the end of this month a judicial conference will be held to consider the claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/05\/the-treaty-of-waitangi-was-forged-to-exclude-maori-women-we-must-right-that-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The signing of the treaty marks the point at which M\u0101ori women began to be written out of historyThis week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from M\u0101ori writers.This year I\u2019m not interested in the symbolism of w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}