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.
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Author: Kennedy Warne
He Whakaputanga: Partnership and power sharing
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.
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Tāmati Kruger: Down that way, glory waits
“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.”
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Heke Tangata: The ebbing tide
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.
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One tough mother
Remembering the mother of the nation, Whina Cooper — a tough, uncompromising mother who understood the power of protest and the political fray.
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‘Gather up the bloodstained soil’
Kennedy Warne finds a connection between Parihaka and a memorial to the thousands of African-Americans who suffered the horror of death by lynching.
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‘I was joking’: the all-purpose humour defence
Bob Jones’s column on Māori was “mean, malicious and infantile”, but it gets a Press Council pass under the humour defence.
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Kennedy Warne: Martin in the mangroves
Kennedy Warne reflects on the days leading up to Martin Luther King’s death, 50 years ago.
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Old certainties, old prejudices, old fears are losing their grip
The good news is that the country seems to be in a process of recovery — and for Pākehā, discovery — of the Māori conceptual world.
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Catching the wave — remembering Nuki Aldridge
Nuki Aldridge died on October 30 at Kawakawa, and was laid to rest in his hometown of Kaeo. A...
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Kennedy Warne: No more shoes on Uluṟu
In two years’ time, Uluṟu /Ayers Rock will be closed to climbing — an outcome the traditional...
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It’s what you might call architecture-tanga
What can designers and planners learn from tikanga Māori? An Auckland architect, Tony Watkins, offers some thoughts.
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Mana and mullet — remembering Pā Tate
Pā Henare Arekatera Tate died on April 1 at Rawene, on the shores of the Hokianga Harbour, the...
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Is sorry enough?
The government’s apologies in recent settlement bills are powerful statements, but they do not...
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Tuhoe’s Bloody Sunday
This Sunday, 100 years ago, a notorious arrest took place. It happened at Maungapōhatu — Tūhoe’s...
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Saana Murray — and an awakening for a Pākehā
Kennedy Warne, a co-founder and former editor of New Zealand Geographic and the author of Tūhoe:...
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