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To: marcos who wrote (161412)5/5/2005 4:45:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<as it becomes lucrative to prove oneself sufficiently indian, or maori, to get a slice of the settlement pie .... >

It is laughable here. Totally euro people claim to be maori and thereby get a piece of the action. "Identifying as maori" is sufficient to get piece of the action in some respects.

Here's the best case - a totally euro bloke running Ngai Tahu's whakapapa [aka family tree]:
stuff.co.nz

When maoris parade their culture, increasingly they look less and less like real maoris.

Mqurice