カテゴリー: Māori
A more truthful understanding of history is largely dependent on education. A lot is riding on the success of this new curriculumAotearoa New Zealand has come a long way in the past few years in its efforts to engage with its history in a more upfront …
Rangi Wickliffe was one of many Māori children repeatedly abused in welfare institutions including the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric hospitalRangi Wickliffe’s body is a map and a history of New Zealand’s welfare and prison institutions, where the 60…
Dame Cindy, the first in her family to graduate from university, rose to become a pro-vice chancellor at the University of AucklandThe first Māori woman to be named governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Cindy Kiro, has been sworn in at an intimate cere…
Low Covid vaccination rates among Māori reflect practical barriers – but they also have good reason to distrust the governmentOne of my earliest memories is racing up a flight of hollow stairs in Kawerau’s town hall as Tiwi, my first friend, counts dow…
Inclusion of Māori legal customs could profoundly alter the way law is applied in areas as diverse as defamation and trust law When English settlers first arrived in New Zealand, they brought with them pests, diseases and England’s common law. Indigeno…
Research tying Māori activity 700 years ago to Antarctic changes sparks debate in New Zealand over Indigenous inclusion in scienceDeep in the ice of a remote Antarctic peninsula, a group of researchers found evidence that fires started by early Māori w…
Party say Maori would be ‘sacrificial lambs’ if Covid restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates riseNew Zealand’s government would be committing “modern genocide” by reopening the country as Covid spreads among under-vaccinated indigenous people…
Ngātiwai tribal leaders formally listed as official naming authorities for the tiny creature A tiny candy-stick coloured pygmy pipehorse, discovered in a small area off New Zealand’s north coast has been given a Māori name by the local iwi (tribe) – in…
Despite some pushback, the use of the country’s indigenous tongue te reo is now becoming common in mainstream mediaEarly this week, Māni Dunlop, presenter of RNZ’s Midday Report Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga, sent out an astonished tweet: “It’s a record w…
Party wants all original te reo Māori place names to be officially restored across the country in the next five yearsThe Māori party has launched a petition to change New Zealand’s official name to Aotearoa, the te reo Māori, indigenous language name f…
If we must wait for the perfect circumstances to speak or sing te reo, we may as well sign the language’s death certificateMy sisters and I are the first generation in almost 50 generations of our family who didn’t grow up speaking te reo Māori as a fi…
Our wellbeing is inextricably linked to our childhoods, which in turn is influenced by the lives of our parents and grandparentsIf there is one patient who has opened my eyes to my own cognitive bias and who has helped me to recognise the profound effe…
Māori liken their trademark application to France’s effort to protect the term champagne, while Australia says you can’t claim a plantLong before the name Mānuka became synonymous with a booming honey industry, celebrity endorsements and protracted glo…
Regional hub in New Plymouth – built on land seized from Māori in 1960 – is up against the likes of New York’s LaGuardia for Unesco’s Prix Versailles A tiny regional airport in New Zealand that weaves a Māori story of love and longing into its architec…
New Zealand has long fought to have indigenous remains held overseas returned – now it’s reckoning with its own colonial legacyIn 2009, Āwhina Twomey received a phone call from a friend and member of her Rangitāne o Wairau iwi (tribe), asking if she co…