Reikura Kahi: Fuelling a love for te reo
“It’s up to us to keep fighting for our language and ensure its survival. Our language is essential to our identity as Māori.” — Reikura Kahi.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 11, 2021 | Kōrero
“It’s up to us to keep fighting for our language and ensure its survival. Our language is essential to our identity as Māori.” — Reikura Kahi.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Apr 4, 2021 | Kōrero
“You’ve got hundreds of years of research and development behind the wharenui that we see today. That doesn’t even take into account the building knowledge that our ancestors brought with them from Polynesia.” — Professor Deidre Brown.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 28, 2021 | Arts, Kōrero
“Weaving is my way of connecting my past and present with my future — that is, with my children and my mokopuna.” — Veranoa Hetet.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 28, 2021 | Arts, Kōrero
“I think what contemporary Pacific art tells us is what the truth of our reality is.” —artist-curator Ema Tavola.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 21, 2021 | Kōrero
“Even though our Māori asset base is now worth $70 billion, that doesn’t mean anything if our families, who are still the working poor, can’t look after one another.” —Traci Houpapa.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Mar 13, 2021 | Kōrero
“We weren’t seeing true reflections of ourselves on screen. The reflections we were seeing on screen were nearly always driven by Pākehā. Mostly Pākehā men.” — Briar Grace-Smith.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 28, 2021 | Kōrero
“When you’re around those whānau and individuals who’ve been broken, at the heart of that brokenness is a lack of belief in how extraordinary we are as a people.” — Dr Ella Henry.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 20, 2021 | Kōrero
“No one was jealous when we had one-quarter of an acre. No one was jealous when we had the city sewer pipe spewing tiko and baby foetuses and amputated arms and legs right in front of our meeting house.” — Ngarimu Blair.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Feb 7, 2021 | Kōrero
“We need to acknowledge that this is a partnership that we can move further forward — and that there still needs to be an open-mindedness in government, and in the public at large.” — Claudia Orange.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Jan 31, 2021 | Kōrero
“We were poor, man. Mum had multiple cleaning jobs, and she always told us kids to do the best jobs we could, no matter what it was. That message has stuck with me throughout my working career.” — Tania Sharkey.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 13, 2020 | Kōrero
“Tatau is having this visual reminder on your body to the long line of your ancestors, who you walk with every day.” — Tyla Vaeau.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 13, 2020 | Kōrero
“Law can be a tool for both justice and injustice.” — Dr Claire Charters.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 6, 2020 | Kōrero
“Before I got cancer, I wanted to be an All Black or a professional athlete.” — Dr Neru Leavasa, GP and MP for Takanini in Auckland.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Dec 5, 2020 | Kōrero
“Part of the challenge for non-Māori, particularly for Pākehā, is to understand that we are not a secular culture.” — Dr Hirini Kaa.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 29, 2020 | Kōrero
“Dad knew that a better education could mean a better life. So he sent us to Carmel, and he was still paying off our school fees for decades after we’d left school.” — Barbara Edmonds, MP for Mana.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 22, 2020 | Kōrero
“One of the beauties of this Māori development portfolio is that it’ll give me an opportunity to help shape the future of Māori broadcasting.” — Willie Jackson, Minister of Māori Development.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 15, 2020 | Kōrero
“The fact of the matter is that tamariki Māori are far worse off than their non-Māori peers, and we know that racism plays a huge part in this.” — Glenis Philip-Barbara, Assistant Māori Commissioner for Children.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 8, 2020 | Kōrero
“Government agencies and various ministries seem to think that part of their role is to uphold their colonial power.” — Dr Rhys Jones.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Nov 1, 2020 | Kōrero
“When you’re a descendant, you have to accept your ancestors. The good and the bad.” — Ross Calman.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 18, 2020 | Kōrero
“When we had king tides at night, we’d have to put our mattresses on Mum’s bed and wait until the tide went down. And Dad would put the babies, asleep, in the plastic baby bath, and they’d just be floating on the tide.”
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 11, 2020 | Kōrero
“It’s the Sāmoans living outside of Sāmoa who value and hang on to the vestiges of our Pacific culture and indigenous knowledge.” — Melani Anae.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 11, 2020 | Kōrero
“Overall, I think working at KFC has probably been the most formative experience of my whole life so far.” — Tamatha Paul, 23, Wellington City councillor.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Oct 4, 2020 | Kōrero
“When Pākehā talk about ‘long-term’, they rarely mean it the way Māori do. We are multi-generational.” — Fletcher Tabuteau, NZ First MP.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 27, 2020 | Kōrero
“There’s a kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa generation of us coming through who want something different for Māori. And many Pākehā have no issue with that.” — Rawiri Waititi, Māori Party candidate for Waiariki.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 20, 2020 | Kōrero
“The values we were raised with were to work hard and serve others. So you had to have a job. (Dad made sure I had an IRD number when I was six.)” — Kiri Allan.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 20, 2020 | Kōrero
“There’s been a tendency to judge me by how I sound, how I speak, how I look. I look too Pākehā. I sound too Pākehā.” — Harete Hipango, National MP for Whanganui.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 6, 2020 | Kōrero
“I think it’s right for us not to forget the times in Labour’s history when they went with what was popular and lost sight of Labour’s values.” — Arena Williams, Labour candidate for Manurewa.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Sep 6, 2020 | Kōrero
“I arrived in Boston about three months before my family, and I thought: ‘Okay. The best way for me to meet people is to take my guitar and my squash racket.’” — Dr Shane Reti, MP for Whangārei and National’s health spokesperson.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 30, 2020 | Kōrero
It’s important for us to look beyond the “artificial and nonsensical” demarcations imposed by early Europeans and see ourselves “as just one people connected at different levels through the ocean”, says Professor Steven Ratuva.
Read MorePosted by Dale Husband | Aug 8, 2020 | Kōrero
“Probably 99 percent of what I talk about are things that my nan would hate.” — Joe Daymond.
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