Ko Kuini Irihāpeti tuarua he mokopuna o Kuini Wikitoria, nāna i tautoko te hainatanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. I te tau 1995, I haere mai a Kuini Irihāpeti tuarua ki te tūtaki i te Kāhui Ariki, ā, i hainatia e ia te whakaaetanga whakataunga o Waikato-Tainui.
Heio anō, ko
te mea nui, he kuia, he māmā, he tuakana ia.
E te Kurupounamu kua ngaro nei i te ao kikokiko, hoki rā koeki te uma o Hine-nui-te-pō ki reira koe rongo ai i te māhantanga o ngā mate.
Kei taku puhi ariki, ko te aunga o te moe ki a koe āke āke āketonu atu.
Queen Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria, who supported the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. In 1995, she met with the royal family in Aotearoa and signed the Waikato-Tainui sign Deed of Settlement.
However, more importantly, she was a grandmother, a mother, and a sister.
To someone who many hold highly – you have now passed from the seen world to the bosom of Hine-nui-te-pō – the goddess of night and there you feel the warmth of those who have passed.
May you forever rest in peace.
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The picturesque Waikawa Marae sits at the entrance to Tōtaranui (Queen Charlotte Sounds) near Picton, and in February 1990, Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit. It was scheduled as part of a Royal Tour to New Zealand, her eighth as sovereign, to commemorate 150 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
At the time of the Queen's visit, what we would today call a "meme" had gained currency in certain sections of the New Zealand media, and even in some legal circles. The Treaty, it was claimed, did not apply to the South Island because William Hobson had declared British sovereignty over the territory prior to 1840, invoking a "right of discovery", a manoeuvre designed to preempt French colonial ambitions.
In fact, Te Tiriti was signed throughout Te Waipounamu, at Hobson's own urging -- hardly the act of somebody who saw the question of sovereignty as settled. It was, in other words, a bogus, bad faith claim -- hardly surprising given its propagators.
