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by gizajob 26 days ago
Ok here’s another: they were teaching at the University of Oxford before the Māori discovered and settled New Zealand.
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I wish more Kiwis knew this.
Whats the inference here?
In New Zealand the Maori act as though they're some indigenous population who deserves reparations, however they were really more like a colonial people who lost to a more powerful colonial nation.

It's a little like the UK claiming the Falkland Islands. The British were the first to discover the islands and the first to inhabit them, however I wouldn't call them indigenous to the Falkland islands in the same way they might be indigenous to England. Certainly they wouldn't deserve reparations if Argentina someday captured the islands