Journeyman Pictures - 2018-10-06
The Kids Aren't Alright: New Zealand's Maori youth are far more likely to attempt suicide and commit crimes than any other group. In some communities, a return to traditional Maori values is being promoted as the solution. Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures New Zealand's Maori youth are in the grip of a crisis. Maori make up just 15% of the country's population, but 60% of people aged 10-14 who killed themselves between 2012 and 2016 were Maori. Eastern Petford Smith first attempted suicide aged 12, and at the same time began to get in trouble with the law. “I didn’t want to be in this world. I hated it.” Isaiah Matthew Apiata works as a youth justice coordinator for New Zealand’s Ministry of Children, or Oranga Tamariki, and believes that Maori children today "aren’t brought up with values or principles." Apiata's work focuses on helping children like Isaiah reestablish their connection to ancestral traditions. “The essence of the pepeha hikoi is for the young person to make a reconnection back to their land...And give you that understanding of purpose in life." For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7444 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Visit our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/JourneymanPictures/ Say hi on tumblr: https://journeymanpictures.tumblr.com/ SBS Australia – Ref. 7444
I watched Once Were Warriors back when it first came out and was totally blown away by the rawness of how it made me feel after the film was over. Over 20 years later I still think about the film a lot and what it means to break free of colonisation, and still be a prisoner of it long after the colonisers leave.
Belinda R hello from royal hill of Tara county Meath Ireland
These young men need to reconnect to their proud history to know the greatness of their people.
NGA MAHI
Sad story about the fisherman who passed on from cancer, I hope everything goes well for his family and his spirit inspires them to live for the positivity in life!!!
Positivity in life - lol - you either rich or don't live in New Zealand, to make that comment. This place is a neo-liberal hell hole for rich authoritarian rich pigs who hate youth, unemployed, poor, homeless. Its like the day they become 13 they go from being HEAVILY SUPPORTED CHILDREN to HATED YOUTH.
Teenagers are bored everywhere...
Even in the most exciting places on the Planet
Wtf boredom? No ur so wrong. Its way deeper than that
You missed the whole point
NZ has the highest teen suicide rate in the world. Because of the economy and ministry of justice system 😔
@Sean Paul Not pakeha teens
@Another Maori Hori lol thats cos they dont have to worry about the economy and ministry of justice
#ONELOVE from 4301 BRISBANE 🤙
Wheelies on the road, my dad would of give me a beating if he caught me doing that, haha
Creating life changing opportunities is definitely a challenge regardless what part of the world you live in.
THE WRLD HAS GONE BONKERS AND I HATE IT.
At can be like that...unfortunately.
Be strong & be proud
I'm NativeAmerican I have heard about my people in reservations resorting to suicide drugs alcohol etc. I can relate to the Polynesians feeling like their home/land was stolen.
Mr T Interesting I didn't know that. I guess I just assumed my hardships on to theirs. But I do know Polynesians get the fatty scraps of pigs from butchers and get diabetus eating that shit. They choose it but white people supply it. Well yeah. Diabetes and obesity rates with NativeAmericans is so so high. We aren't used to the diet of Europeans and we suffer for it.
Your stolen land happened a long, long time ago. Get over it.! You weren't there, I wasn't there. Move on.. There are many opportunities for Native Americans.
Quit feeling sorry for your race and do something with yourself instead of being a crybaby.
Wah, wah, wah White people stole my
land over 250 years ago. I cannot do anything. Wah, wah wah.
Well one thing if you don't have any type of indigenous or native blood, you'll never understand,cause you don't come from any culture or traditions.
@How To Vegan I'm sorry but the type 2 Diabetes come from consuming high amounts of sugar and complex carbohydrates.
America was not stolen from any one
The Spanish and English and french fought and died to get this land same way the natives did until they met an enemy they could win against
Ppl still have the notion of the noble savage
But they we're no more noble they next human
They stole they killed they raped they enslaved
It human nature
I watched "Once We Were Warriors" about the Maori when it came out. I was 12. I still think about the stories presented in that film, and how pervasive and unchanged those stories are for the Maori still today.
Very sad to watch. I pray that the children who are hurting that grandfather protects their hearts and they can find peace among their peers and loved ones. Aho!!!
Excellent and important video. To do what one can to restore the Indigenous culture and identity in the people I think is essential and vitally necessary, being separated from any part of their culture is confusion making and disorienting and causes sensations of lost and deep struggling internal and external. Every thing that is done to bring the people back to their cultural identity and traditions helps to heal that longing and very real need to be a whole self, the self they were born to be. Patient with those who don't seem to grasp at it right away, each individual is finding their own way. Blessings to all the mentors, teachers and guides, you are an invaluable link to recovery, reconnecting, an integrated whole to past, present, and future.
No just recently a 9 year old boy took his own life... its so sad that these type of things happen and no reprecutions have happened to those who should be held accountable.
aww ... I actually want to live there. Escape.
Wow that was amazing really interesting inspiring an tragic obviously, building on the positive.
Jadian's pretty awesome on the bikes...talent
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I wanna go there this year
They are suffering the negative effects of reasoning in a Hegelian dialectic conflict. Who knows what that is aye. Nobody here has a clue.
What an inspirational Story , Good Luck to all walk this path and please Support this much needed work with the Young People !
Mr Apiata im your Whanau by Adoption,The Apiatas are indeed an awesome Whanau. 100% Mana.
If you love your mama, you wont do it.
Lol this kids parents are loaded. Owning property in russell is over a million dollars. Real poverty is 20mins west in kaikohe. Not rich town russell
Aging jedi I know eastern personally and they don't own there house they rent lmao, and yeah go record that shithole lolz
Even still. If even rich kids are offing themselves too then there's a bigger problem lurking
We had a 12 year old boy in our area take his life very sad
Oh please, you all know that these happen due to the part of losing one's identity, due to colonialism. You lost your identity and that what makes you confused, cause you do not know if you're culture is white or maori.
pakeha and maori need to stand together, against other cultures, we see that today.
I am so grateful and relieved that there are people in this world like Isiah, who are selflessly dedicated to bettering these boys' lives. It brings a tear to my eye and it inspires me.
My heart bleeds for my country!!!
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A nice documentary
5:03 - There was a time when stuff like this was called a "prank." Offenders were taken to a police station, given a good talking to and parents arrived to take them home...
When the "prank" destroys YOUR hard earned property, remind us how innocent the "prank" is.
They didnt teach these kids the value of life.
Is this guy still alive?
hahahahah jadians locked up
U from the 404 to bara?
They all need God
Male role models can solve so many problems in our world. It’s sad to see that such a simple thing is the answer and so few people are saying it especially in America.
Who would the U.S lock up for slavery if not the father's?
As a grandmother I have raised my two grandson since they were babies and having a male role model doesn’t necessarily mean can solve so many problems.
A lot has to do with whanau, showing whom they link and belonging too, their standing ground of their culture sides and I could say plenty more but my main concern is that they are truly blessed with their own surroundings and their own experience of being able to make the best of their own life and their own wellbeing as young males.
All it is with my Mokopuna they were raised by their grandmother who is a single mom and grandmother and I truly did my best even they are mischievous, debates with their own opinions on how they feel and see things, learning their pepeha, gone hunting/ fishing, picking puha for boil up, etc...All I do was taught them to be independent of their lives.
What happened to the billions paid in compensation to the Moari Tribes?
Where did all that compensation go?
Who stole that wealth?
Who became rich and corrupt as a result?
What compensation has the average Maori received?
Turn your back on the western monetary system.
Get back to community living, helping one another, natural medicine, your own language etc.
As a matter of interest .....How would one choose to live their life if there was no such thing as money, exchange or barter?
Not all tribes got that. Those did a running full fledge businesses mostly in fisheries and seasonal work to provide jobs for locals. Goes without saying that seasonal work only helps for so long. Tauranga area is one of the tribes that created businesses and are flourishing, the south island are doing really well. You got small town like waihau bay with their orchards and forestry etc
This world is a sad place
Denise Glover, world is beautiful (look at sunset), corrupt politicians ruin it
Someone might wanna run the serial numbers on those bikes. Grinder marks counts as a fail. ha ha ha ha ha
Was that man bun a popular haircut style in New Zealand? I've seen a lot of New Zealanders kids rock it
Is that all you got from this? A fucking hairstyle, for real?
I use to have it with undercuts too at 15 but it got annoying
Its been around since for ever. Didnt know it was a kiwi thing
how is any less significant to white Australian children as young as 8 taking their own lives
Colonized oppressed people of color everywhere are experiencing the same things all over the globe.
sounds like the old victim cop out to me..
Blame the whites but without them no electricity,mc Donaldson,mobile phone,hospital,car,dentist,
Send all whites back to Europe then if you don't want them
Aotearoa. Australia. USA. Canada. Mexico. Brazil. Colombia.(all of Central and south America) Africa. It’s fact not a cop out pinky
But I thought multiculturalism was a great idea, everyone from all over the world settles on your land and it's great....
You got it,my comrade,it's not settlers fault,it's native fault lacking hability to adapt to cultural diversity
Colonization and multiculturalism are very different.
New Zealand is failing our young kids all they want is a sense of belonging and understanding, I went through that in the 80's and 90's and it's still a battle today
Your uniform is your skin.
Everyone needs to learn about their indigenous ancestors in the land they call home.
Without that sense of identity who are you??
low integration to the society causes teenagers to commit suicide. That's a well known societal theory.
Wah, wah, wah...
Go do couple years in army bro, kia kaha
I live in a very tiny town in Alaska with a total of 400 kids in pre-k to grade 12.
We have had multiple kids commit suicide or have been put in mental hospitals. It’s sad to see middle schoolers want to die and have to been in these places for months
simple fix, freeze immigration, create jobs and hope, this generation of 10 to 20 year olds will struggle otherwise, our government dosnt care 1 bit, someone tell me, why is it just kiwis homeless? thats another issue, but the downflow effect is here.
Colonialism is a parasite that feeds on your soul, it eats away your identity and with it your very connection to this life. It leaves you an empty shell without even the will to live.
To all sufferers of colonialism, our respective cultures is what's going to save us. We are ALL going through the same thing. This brother is doing great work for the youth, I wish he gets more support. Historical and, most importantly, cultural preservation is crucial.
Western tools will NEVER work for us. Only our own respective cultures & principles will.
@every 90 Because Maoris were already killing each others with weapons supplied by the British.
absolutely well said, well worded mate.
Blame the whites
So you don't want house,car,mobile phones,mc Donaldson,money
How come blame the colonist
Why never say any good they bring to you dentist,western medicine,hospital,sewerage system,electricity
@Jordans Mum is so right
Oh its always someone else's fault, isn't it? "Colonisation" is a crutch used to avoid having to confront the fact that they haven't taken responsibility for their own lives.
Mz Lee - 2018-10-06
When he spoke about his father he was so proud to mention the great attributes he had. I hope this young man can also find similar qualities in himself because of his father's example. Hopefully he will live a long, happy, and prosperous life.
Jes Pulido - 2018-10-06
Agreed.
Pani Smith - 2020-04-27
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