“The IRCA report documents a childhood of profound deprivation, neglect, and cultural dislocation,” wrote Vandor. “Trauma compounded the neglect. Although her grandparents retained some understanding of Māori genealogy and heritage, she was not raised within the Māori worldview and does not speak the Māori language. She was considered an outsider by her maternal family and called by a racial slur because of her father’s Tongan heritage and left feeling, in her own words, ‘the odd one out.’ ”
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