{"id":75533,"date":"2025-12-06T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/06\/from-terrorist-to-national-treasure-renowned-maori-activist-finally-tells-his-own-story"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:00:35","slug":"from-terrorist-to-national-treasure-renowned-maori-activist-finally-tells-his-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75533","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018terrorist\u2019 to national treasure, renowned M\u0101ori activist finally tells his own story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u0101me Iti\u2019s colourful memoir covers his decades-long fight for Indigenous rights in New Zealand and takes aim at \u2018saboteurs\u2019 in the government<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are so many ways to begin telling the story of T\u0101me Iti, arguably New Zealand\u2019s most recognisable M\u0101ori rights activist, who was once branded a terrorist by the state and is now considered by many a national treasure.<\/p>\n<p>You could begin with his formative school years at the foot of Te Urewera ranges, where he was made to write the lines \u201cI will not speak M\u0101ori\u201d as punishment for speaking his language \u2013 lines that have since become a prominent feature of his art and activism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/06\/from-terrorist-to-national-treasure-renowned-maori-activist-finally-tells-his-own-story\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u0101me Iti\u2019s colourful memoir covers his decades-long fight for Indigenous rights in New Zealand and takes aim at \u2018saboteurs\u2019 in the governmentThere are so many ways to begin telling the story of T\u0101me Iti, arguably New Zealand\u2019s most recognisable M\u0101ori r&#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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533","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=75533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75533\/revisions\/75534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}