{"id":36636,"date":"2014-06-05T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36636"},"modified":"2015-02-09T21:08:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T21:08:40","slug":"as-long-as-you-have-a-maori-ancestor-you-are-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36636","title":{"rendered":"As long as you have a M\u0101ori (ancestor), you are M\u0101ori."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we have any full-blooded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C4%81ori_people\" target=\"_blank\">M\u0101ori<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/languagerevive.org\/fellow\/dr-tiimoti-kaaretu-qso\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. [T\u012bmoti] K\u0101retu<\/a> said. \u201cBut it is not a problem. As long as you have a M\u0101ori (ancestor), you are M\u0101ori. It\u2019s left to the individual to identify with their M\u0101ori or European.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>K. C. Cole, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2014\/05\/31\/chickasaw-and-maori-celebrate-similarities-language-and-culture-155051\" target=\"_blank\">Chickasaw and M\u0101ori Celebrate Similarities, Language and Culture<\/a>,\u201d <em>Indian Country Today Media Network<\/em>, May 31, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2014\/05\/31\/chickasaw-and-maori-celebrate-similarities-language-and-culture-155051\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2014\/05\/31\/chickasaw-and-maori-celebrate-similarities-language-and-culture-155051<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we have any full-blooded M\u0101ori,\u201d Dr. [T\u012bmoti] K\u0101retu said. \u201cBut it is not a problem. As long as you have a M\u0101ori (ancestor), you are M\u0101ori. It\u2019s left to the individual to identify with their M\u0101ori or European.\u201d K. C. Cole, \u201cChickasaw and M\u0101ori Celebrate Similarities, Language and Culture,\u201d Indian Country Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10991,17465,1774,17464],"class_list":["post-36636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-indian-country-today-media-network","tag-k-c-cole","tag-maori","tag-timoti-karetu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}