{"id":69322,"date":"2025-02-06T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/06\/new-zealand-waitangi-treaty-day-nz-government-maori-policies"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T04:20:17","slug":"its-about-togetherness-waitangi-day-captures-a-new-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69322","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s about togetherness\u2019: Waitangi Day captures a new audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A groundswell of resistance against the government\u2019s M\u0101ori policies is driving many to make the trip to the Waitangi treaty grounds in New Zealand\u2019s far north for the first time<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stands \u2013 for the first time \u2013 on the narrow bridge connecting New Zealand\u2019s far north coastal town Paihia to the Waitangi treaty grounds, where 185 years ago, M\u0101ori chiefs and the British Crown forged a nation state.<\/p>\n<p>Above her, the red, black and white flags of M\u0101ori independence flick and pop in the breeze. Hundreds of people amble behind her towards the grounds \u2013 some pausing to cheer on children launching themselves into the estuary hoping to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/24\/popping-a-manu-new-zealands-unique-water-jumping-obsession\">a colossal splash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/06\/new-zealand-waitangi-treaty-day-nz-government-maori-policies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundswell of resistance against the government\u2019s M\u0101ori policies is driving many to make the trip to the Waitangi treaty grounds in New Zealand\u2019s far north for the first timeTwenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stands \u2013 for the first time \u2013 on the narro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322\/revisions\/69323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}