Indigenous Identity Appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand: The White Academics Who Claim to Be Indigenous Māori and the Māori Who Claim to Be Indigenous Whites

@AerialKiwi In court this week, Julian Batchelor has been perpetuating the debunked myth of pre-Polynesian settlement of New Zealand by a tribe of "fair-skinned ginger-haired people. This is just one example of his utterly mistaken views. Debunked here:…

3/3 What is this myth of a "fair-skinned ginger-haired people" who settled here before the ancestors of Māori? It's the Hotu myth. People spout this myth as a way to deny the truth that Māori are Indigenous. Here are the facts about the Hotu myth: https:…

@JoelMacManus Ah "fair-skinned ginger-haired people" - why do so many anti-Māori bigots love the Hotu myth? If Julian Batchelor cared about facts, rather than just trying to deny that Māori are Indigenous to Aotearoa, Julian might learn something from thi…

@stevewicks16 Ah "fair-skinned ginger-haired people" - why do so many anti-Māori bigots love the Hotu myth? If Julian Batchelor cared about facts, rather than just trying to deny that Māori are Indigenous to Aotearoa, Julian might learn something from th…