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Monday 4 September 2017 | Published in Opinion

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I remember sitting with the crew of Fa’afaite Vaka in 2015 who had sailed from Tahiti and as we sat together talking I could hear them all speaking French to each other and hardly any Maohi and I was saddened by the fact that colonisation had created this dilemma.

I remember sitting with the crew of Fa’afaite Vaka in 2015 who had sailed from Tahiti and as we sat together talking I could hear them all speaking French to each other and hardly any Maohi and I was saddened by the fact that colonisation had created this dilemma.


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