Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai agrees, I’m a country hick. Scott Flanagan
2 September 2003 - 13 September 2003
"There is a sense of self-acknowledgement in Scott Flanagan's title that needs to be teased out. "Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai" is just one name among many for that infamous character of Aotearoa / New Zealand history.
"Scott's tactic affords Heke a full designation but then postures a voice of his own inside: 'Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai agrees'. It's here that the self-awareness starts to kick in, the sentence defers to the power play of contested histories."