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To: LouieFisk

“However local Maori say the move was culturally utterly insensitive.

The top of the volcano is sacred for Maori.

“It’s like someone went into St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and took a nude photo,” Dennis Ngawhare, a spokesperson for the local Maori tribe, told the BBC.”

Maori, please. Before the white men came along and made you put on clothes, you were ALL running around the top of that mountain naked.


26 posted on 05/03/2017 2:15:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
“It’s like someone went into St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and took a nude photo,” Dennis Ngawhare, a spokesperson for the local Maori tribe, told the BBC.”

Er DEnnis, been done


44 posted on 05/03/2017 6:47:14 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I never ever set out to make anyone feel safe. - S E Hinton)
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