About me
Kia ora and Kia Orana. My mother is from the Ngapuhi and Ngai Takoto tribes and my father is from the island of Atiu. My main interest is the politics of indigenous sovereignty and what that means where I live, Aotearoa.

Currently im involved with two crews, one of them is a aboriginal / Maori collaboration called 'Creative Combat' and the other is the 'Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust'. My inolvement in those groups is because I think that it compliments the direct action work that I am involved in.

Creative Combat is about using popular concious music to reach out to indigenous youth but also to create connections with other indigenous communities who are also using concious music forms to express themselves. It is about creating concious music forms to combat the issues we are faced with in our indigenous communities. The main mission of Creative Combat is to create and support synergies between indigenous, activist and concious-music communities.

My political influences have been many, I was one of the founding members of the urban Maori organisation, Te Kawau Maro. This organisation attacked the neo-liberal Government policies, advocated direct action against land sales and unjust land settlements through occupations and other strategies and disseminated information to Maori communities about what is now known as the 'fiscal envelope. The question of land and economic resources is core to concepts of indigenous self-determination and in particular the impact of globalisation on indigenous rights to self-determination.

Kia ora and Kia Orana. My mother is from the Ngapuhi and Ngai Takoto tribes and my father is from the island of Atiu. My main interest is the politics of indigenous sovereignty and what that means where I live, Aotearoa.

Currently im involved... (more)