Indigenous peoples
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‘Our identity lies in these songs’: saving the music of India’s Biate
Forgotten Songs Collective aims to preserve ancient hill tribe’s music by bringing it to a global audienceIt w…
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‘Rage, but also joy and completeness’: bringing New Zealand’s stolen ancestors home
The remains of Māori people taken by an Austrian taxidermist in 1877 and displayed in a Vienna museum have fin…
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A moment that changed me: a rebel fighter who risked his life for love was murdered, and part of me died too
As a journalist in a conflict zone I was used to covering deaths. But then a young insurgent who had laid down…
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‘Ultimate honour’: remains of hundreds of Moriori returned in biggest repatriation yet
Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug …
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Matariki: ‘historic’ moment as New Zealand celebrates first Indigenous public holiday
Maori new year legally recognised for first time, prompting excitement and debate over how best to mark the da…
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Māori moko facial tattoos revived by a new generation with designs on the future
After brutal colonial-era efforts to suppress Māori culture, symbols of Indigenous identity are flourishing on…
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‘Pivotal’ Māori leader Tipene O’Regan made member of Order of New Zealand
Champion of Māori rights honoured by Queen for life of work dedicated to improving ‘economic, cultural and soc…
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Moana Jackson was the most articulate, original and forceful intellectual of his generation | Morgan Godfrey
The lawyer, teacher and activist was without equal. New Zealand is so much poorer for his passing, but so much…
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‘The gates of hell opened’: after decades, Māori survivors of state abuse are finally heard
Māori children faced not just the physical abuse, but the trauma of being cut off from their culture, New Zeal…
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Sydney is no place to build a Māori meeting house – it is disrespectful to Aboriginal people | Morgan Godfery
Marae embody deep connections to the land and are a statement of indigeneity – but Māori aren’t indigenous in …
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New Zealand Māori party calls for a ‘divorce’ from Britain’s royal family
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