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Ngā Wai hono i te pō is crowned the new Māori queen after the death of her father, King Tuheitia.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Vo5g8

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fc5y8z15wyz6o

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[–] pop@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Not even the Queen of the Māori people, she's Queen of a few tribes.

Vast majority of tribes don't acknowledge any sort of 'Royalty' and quite a few consider this Monarchical movement to diminish the sovereignty of the Maori peoples who don't kneel to the fake monarch.