You can’t be a kaitiaki from a distance
Our ability to care for and protect rivers, lakes, and wetlands is based on our ability to hear what they’re saying to us.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Nov 11, 2018 | Comment & Analysis
Our ability to care for and protect rivers, lakes, and wetlands is based on our ability to hear what they’re saying to us.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Oct 21, 2018 | History
We often think of He Whakaputanga as the poor cousin, the runner-up, of constitutional documents. But He Whakaputanga has been a force in the north for a long time.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Sep 9, 2018 | Kōrero
“Mana whenua has to do with acknowledging that the land has mana, and fulfilling your obligations and your kinship relationship with the land. That’s what it is — not an ownership or property relationship.”
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | May 20, 2018 | Comment & Analysis, History
For a decade or more, there have been no marked gains in economic progress for Māori. Instead, there’s been stagnation and even some setbacks.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | May 13, 2018 | History, Reflections
Remembering the mother of the nation, Whina Cooper — a tough, uncompromising mother who understood the power of protest and the political fray.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | May 6, 2018 | History, Reflections
Kennedy Warne finds a connection between Parihaka and a memorial to the thousands of African-Americans who suffered the horror of death by lynching.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Apr 15, 2018 | Comment & Analysis, Media
Bob Jones’s column on Māori was “mean, malicious and infantile”, but it gets a Press Council pass under the humour defence.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Apr 8, 2018 | Reflections
Kennedy Warne reflects on the days leading up to Martin Luther King’s death, 50 years ago.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Mar 4, 2018 | Identity, Reflections
The good news is that the country seems to be in a process of recovery — and for Pākehā, discovery — of the Māori conceptual world.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Dec 17, 2017 | Reflections
Nuki Aldridge died on October 30 at Kawakawa, and was laid to rest in his hometown of Kaeo. A...
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Dec 10, 2017 | Comment & Analysis
In two years’ time, Uluṟu /Ayers Rock will be closed to climbing — an outcome the traditional...
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Oct 14, 2017 | Reflections
What can designers and planners learn from tikanga Māori? An Auckland architect, Tony Watkins, offers some thoughts.
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | May 6, 2017 | Reflections
Pā Henare Arekatera Tate died on April 1 at Rawene, on the shores of the Hokianga Harbour, the...
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Dec 17, 2016 | History
The government’s apologies in recent settlement bills are powerful statements, but they do not...
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Apr 2, 2016 | History, Reflections
This Sunday, 100 years ago, a notorious arrest took place. It happened at Maungapōhatu — Tūhoe’s...
Read MorePosted by Kennedy Warne | Mar 26, 2016 | Reflections
Kennedy Warne, a co-founder and former editor of New Zealand Geographic and the author of Tūhoe:...
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