Māori
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‘A really good sign’: New Zealand book prize nominees distinguished by diversity
Māori women are represented in every category and two Māori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fic…
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New Zealand Māori party calls for a ‘divorce’ from Britain’s royal family
Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi said the move was ‘an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling…
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‘Like a forest without birdsong’: Waitangi Day becomes more reflective as Covid takes toll
As gatherings and speeches are moved online, the chairman of the Waitangi National Trust Board sees a chance f…
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From outrage to No 1 hits: how Māori musicians conquered the charts in their own language
Once, singing in te reo Māori could trigger a backlash – now New Zealand’s indigenous language is at the heart…
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Māori might be the ‘luckiest’ Indigenous people – but that’s not down to New Zealand exceptionalism | Morgan Godfery
Such gains as Māori have made are no accident, but the result of a willingness to fight for what is rightfully…
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‘A national tragedy’: Māori drowning rate causes alarm in New Zealand
Māori have a strong ancestral relationship to the ocean involving hunting and fishing for seafood, but that ca…
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In today’s New Zealand, it’s not about being just Māori or Pākehā – everyone must belong | Philip McKibbin
While some of us are both, many of us are neither. The urge to separate us out is used to marginalise people a…
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Trauma, dislocation, pollution: why Māori leaders want control of the South Island’s water
New Zealand’s booming dairy industry has polluted 95% of rivers in pastoral land – now Māori are taking the go…
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Death of child with Covid-19 prompts calls for Māori to be prioritised in NZ vaccine rollout
Māori boy who died last week was youngest New Zealander to die with virus and the first childCoronavirus – lat…
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‘Fighting to reclaim our language’: Māori names enjoy surge in popularity
More parents in New Zealand are giving their babies indigenous names to foster links with their ancestry and c…
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Long fight for justice ends as New Zealand treaty recognises Moriori people
Indigenous settlers of the Chatham Islands celebrate ‘significant milestone’ as treaty enshrined in law apolog…
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As New Zealand lifts Covid lockdowns, some small towns ask tourists to stay away
Local leaders, particularly in vulnerable Māori communities, fear travellers could bring the virus with themSe…
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Māori tribe tells anti-Covid vaccine protesters to stop using its haka
Tribal leaders say they have lost many ancestors to previous pandemics and see vaccine as best protection agai…
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My family history omits all mention of violence against Māori – I want to break the silence | Richard Shaw
It is a grim irony that my Irish family – paying to live on land colonised by the English – was involved in al…
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The 1918 influenza tore through Māori communities. Anti-vaxxers risk this again
Some of New Zealand’s anti-vaxxers say that the Covid vaccine is a form of 21st-century colonialism – it’s not…