And So, We are joined today by Tina Nata who is calling from Auteura, but I'll leave it up for

Tina to introduce herself.

Oh, Kieur Nick, Kiana Kato.

My name is Tina Gata.

I am a Nati Parai Wahgini from the East Cape of Tika Maui

in Tijuana Nui Akhui, I'm one one of the many Warner nations of the Pacific.

Yeah, thanks for joining us today and we're not talking necessarily about

Oteo or today or we're talking actually about Kanaki or a place also known as New

Caledonia and it some of our podcast listeners might not be familiar with this, especially with the genocide going on in Kazaa, but nonetheless it's very pertinent to indigenous decolonial movements, and especially in this particular particular moment so maybe you can give us just kind of a brief

synopsis of what is going on right now in Kanaki.

Sure Nick so yeah conflict has broken out again in Kanaki it's been an ongoing kind of a

rights crisis there for decades and in fact obviously as a nation undergoing

colonialism it's that always results in a crisis. So the crisis arguably has been ongoing

since French tried to annex it or did actually illegally

annex it in the 1800s and so you know for a long time the French government have

oppressed the Kanak people there and there have been multiple uprisings and political movements.

They have been on a process of granting independence back to conduct people in

Nkhodana for some time, but they've also been undermining that process for quite some time.

They've been scheduled to achieve independence in Kanaki but there have been multiple things happening. So for instance the importing of French citizens,

the incentivising of French citizens in order to decrease the relative population of indigenous peoples there, increased militarization,

similar to all colonial experiences, policies and legislation that amount to oppression of the people.

So after a long time and a lot of patients

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