Rueben Porter (good Maori name that!) can march wherever he likes. There is no law against it, and the exercise may do him good.
Given the one side of his ancestry he mentions, clearly some of his forebears took part in Hongi Hika's treacherous onslaughts on other Maoritribes - on Thames tribes at the Totara pa, Waikato at Matakitaki and Ngati Whatua at Te Ika o Ranganui, being a few, with slaughter and cannibalism on a colossal scale.
If he reads Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a document in his own Ngapuhi dialect, and does not pretend that revisionist notions about the meanings of words were what they meant in 1840, he will know that Ngapuhi chiefs ceded sovereignty to the Queen when they signed it, and they knew it. He will also discover that by the treaty, all the people of New Zealand (tangata katoa o Nu Tirani) received equal rights - simply no special rights for part-Maori but huge benefits just the same.
They have had major concessions over rates payments. Are his own up to date?
He will also note that the name of our country in Te Tiriti is Nu Tirani. Aotearoa is a nonsense name dreamed up decades later by a couple of romantic Englishmen.
