Letter to the Editor

Waiting for Makea family to embrace truth

Dear Editor - My dear friend, Yolande. How many times I have I told you that Willie Browne is only an interpreter in the Courts – most of the people that worked in the Courts pre-1900 to 1960s are all Europeans.
I will tell you now the rightful owner of the lands mentioned, from Kaikaveka – Tereora – Turamatuitui – Pokoinu are all under one name, this is the name TEPOU O TE RANGI VAIMOTU, anau mai tana ko Teverovero o te ra Rangi Maria Vaimotu.
Please, if you look for the name Vaimotu, then you will agree that I am right. It is easy to find her name in all those lands mentioned. Nothing to do with Putua, Makea, Arera family.
I have mentioned that Makeakea is only a tavini – Makea is only a mou-oe from Tahiti, you never listen. A challenge for you, my friend: you mentioned Karika and Tangiia – I have to ask you in our mother tongue:- “Ea’a ta raua rakau tamaki? Ei akairo e I ta enua ana raua? Ea’a ta raua akairo I akaruke mai ei kite na kotou – te uaanga I teia ra?” NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!
My ancestors had left their rakau tamaki – my family knows where it is – kua patu I te toka I runga ia Taputapuatea I Raiatea. Ina, ka ta aere ua kotou I tena au enua a kotou e tuatua na e, no kotou eeeee kore uatu rai kotou e tu.
I would like to give you from my letter before:
I really do not know what you were trying to convey. Stop putting names that do not exist into your genealogy. If only you understood my letter – I stated, these papa’as came to Rarotonga and changed their names to island names and that’s what’s confusing our people today.
That is the big mistake our people are doing today, mono aere uatu ia ratou ki roto I tetai uanga, kare e tika’anga, e ki te au tangata, kua mate, kare I uanga ia. That’s what causing the corruption; the conflicts between family members, etc, etc.
If you put a date against the people you mentioned, it will mean that they were living for 600 years – how gullible. That means, your ancestors survived the big flood, and yet, it’s only Noah, his wife, and their children survived in the Ark.
Makea and Tinomana are just title names, that the papa’a put on themselves to look after the island. You mentioned, (Tinomana) Tekauariki, you are enough there – because that is mine. Tauraariki-taomi’anga-te-kena-enua-o-Avaiki = Nionio Roroa (aka Katikatia), anau mai ko Io-totoro-ki-Ora-Varu = Ina-oro-ake-ki-te-Ata (aka by some people as Ta’akura), anau mai ko nga ma’anga, ko Tara’ape and Tekauariki e to raua tuaine (no issue) – no name will be given because lot of people are claiming through her but taking the wrong names. Tekauariki is my brother’s name.
I am the 8th generation from Tauraariki-taomi’anga-te-kena-enua-o-Avaiki. Please note that I just stopped it there and will not give the name of the woman that married the twins. The reason being, this is where the people are trying to twist their genealogies.
Here is a saying from my tupuna, “Ko tei ‘akaira’ia, tei roto I reira te au pikika’a ‘anga”. “Blood cannot be altered, but genealogies can easily be altered”. Yolande, my dear, Mei Kaikaveka ki Turamatuitui ki Tuoro, no toku tupuna ia. Kua kai ‘au ‘ua to’ou tupuna
I teianei te oki mai nei te ‘uanga (toto tikai) to get what really is theirs. So, let’s see who will get bitten first ‘cause the cycle is nearly completed.
You mentioned Putua – now, Putua ariki Mua adopted Makea Patuakino (papa’a) into his family. When Makea Patuakino knew that Putua Mua will take his eldest son as the next Putua and not him, he killed the son first, then Putua ariki Mua; his wife; and all their children. It was believed that one fled to live in Tahiti. So, where did you get your Putua from? You even mention Kapu Rangatira (real name is Kapu Raera) – he died in 1920 with no issue. So, I am saying don’t talk about Arorangi - that is my turf – I know my family well. Kare o kotou ngai e o mai ei ki roto.
You and your family were very lucky because your dad works in the Land Court as a translator, he have every access to information on the lands. However, thank you for opening up and challenging my intelligence but I am sorry to say, Willie Browne’s genealogy is wrong, try again!!
Mataio V:13: “Ko kotou te tai no te enua: kareka kia mangaro te tai ra, eaa atura te mea e taitai ei? Kua riro ei mea puapinga kore, e akaruke’ia, e takatakai’ia e te vaevae tangata.”

- Dorothy Ngaata
New Zealand

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