I will make one (1) remark about Our Flag Means Death and it is this:
As a Pākehā New Zealander, as a linguistic anthropologist, as a long-time student of the colonial history of my country and the document of the Treaty of WaitangiIcannot stress enough how metatextually *chef’s kiss* the Act of Grace signing was.
That document looks exactly like the “educational” version of Te Tiriti that was on every good history teacher’s classroom wall when I was growing up.
Ed/Taika’s remark on the fonts of the document: “there’s big ones to lure you in, and then all these tiny ones here–
