Indigenous song goes viral in New Zealand Parliament

21-year-old Hana-Rawti Maiby-Clarke's speech in the native Maori language in the New Zealand Parliament did not go unnoticed. Instead, New Zealand's youngest member of parliament in 170 years is getting a standing ovation Social media.

Maiby-Clarke, who campaigns for the rights of New Zealand's indigenous peoples, has only been in parliament since October. His grandfather, Taitimu Maipu, is a member of the activist Maori group Nga Tamatoa, according to Channel India. New Delhi TV World.

In interesting terms, this is also traditional Hakka Or she promises voters that if push comes to shove, she will 'die' for them and 'live for their will'.

'You will never agree with the Maori who have spent their whole lives sitting in the back of classrooms and yearning to learn their mother tongue. You are perfect just the way you are,” she added.

Maiby-Clarke says she doesn't see herself as a politician, but as a defender of the Maori language. “Before entering Parliament, I was given some advice not to take personal matters. Well, I take everything personally. In the weeks since I have been here, the government has attacked my entire Mauryan existence on this earth. Health, Environment, Water, Land, Language.'

“This is not my moment, it's yours,” she told everyone watching her speech at home.

The arrival of Europeans in New Zealand and the colonization of the island in the eighteenth century destroyed many of the Maori people's existence and culture due to disease, deportation and assimilation policies. Some tribal leaders are demanding an apology and compensation.Genocide' .