Moana Jackson was “our Māori Yoda”. “He brought clarity to our struggle and wisdom to our kitchen tables, influencing generations of policymakers and jurists alike.” — Moana Maniapoto on the making of ‘Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary’, made with the support of NZ On Air.
Read More
“June was a matriarch of Donna Corleone proportions. Smoked up a storm, was a hotshot card player, and swore like a trooper. She had a shotgun under her bed.” — Moana Maniapoto.
Read More
“Despite the fact that ‘mānuka’ is a Māori word, not an Australian word, the UK IP office backed Australia’s claim that it also produces ‘mānuka honey’. The UK FTA will cement in those legal tests.” — Moana Maniapoto.
Read More
“When Māori are used as political football, someone has to make the tackles, and that’s what we try to do.” — Moana Maniapoto reflecting on the role of her award-winning current affairs TV programme, Te Ao with Moana.
Read More
“I sometimes get: ‘Kei te takahi koe i taku mana’ — you’re trampling on my mana. And I think to myself: ‘Well, you’re murdering my language. Which one is it going to be? Murdering my language or your mana?’” — Tīmoti Kāretu.
Read More
“He looked more Pākeha than any Pākehā I knew . . . But his was a life deeply immersed in te ao Māori. He was one of the best taonga puoro players in the world. A leading force behind their revival.” — Moana Maniapoto on Richard Nunns.
Read More
“Both sides are saying: ‘We want to do it a different way.’ It’s just no longer right to say evil nasty Crown, good angel iwi. It’s not like that at all.” — Supreme Court judge Sir Joe Williams.
Read More
“New Zealanders are fiercely reticent. They don’t want to stand out, whereas in America they just go: ‘Wow.’” — Jemaine Clement on New Zealand audiences.
Read More
“Being a short-arse, I got bullied hard by people. So I had to learn how to move, to look after myself.” — Tame Iti.
Read More
“When you ask me whether I’m in parliament as a Māori? No, I’m a New Zealander lucky enough to have Māori in my background.” — Winston Peters.
Read More
“When we say that we’re struggling for Black lives, it’s not just for Black people, it’s for a different framework, a different system, a different future. A future that involves all of us.” — Angela Davis.
Read More
She described Pākehā as “the product of the riffraff, the flotsam and jetsam of British culture.” — Moana Maniapoto on Atareta Poananga, who died just over a week ago.
Read More
Whanaungatanga, manaakitanga, and aroha will get us through, writes Moana Maniapoto. But stay in your bubble.
Read More
“I’ve always detected a growing level of smugness and snobbery amongst the woke leadership and I’m just never going to tolerate that.” — Shane Jones.
Read More
“I’ve always wanted to be confidently fluent and, at times, I’ve felt like it’s been within my grasp. But then I let it slip away.”
Read More
“There’s a litany of examples, including admissions by the police themselves, of unconscious bias. Or racism, as we called it in the good old days.” — Moana Maniapoto.
Read More
“We want to work shoulder to shoulder with this government rather than head-to-head headbutting.” — Ngahiwi Tomoana, Kahungunu leader.
Read More
“If someone had said to me in 2008, I’d be turning the Whanganui River into a legal person — or parliament would be — I would have laughed.” Chris Finlayson, former Treaty negotiations minister.
Read More
“It was so stressful. I told my lot I just want to be Pākehā for a while.”
Read More
“Maria Thompson became a part of the Jackson household after my son’s grandmother, June, found her on the streets and took her home. She stayed for over three decades.”
Read More
At the heart of the problem is the hare-brained notion that the primary goal for the Māori media is preserving and promoting the Māori language.
Read More
“The big challenge is how we as whānau and communities confront this terrible darkness, this sad duality that creates such a tragic legacy. There is no quick fix. It requires an open and honest conversation.”—Moana Maniapoto
Read More
The concept of wearing allegiances on the face, of using the skin as a canvas to tell a personal story . . . was a distinctly Māori expression.
Read More
One day, while our Māori Anglican dad was at work, our Pākehā Catholic mum rushed her brood off to...
Read More
If you can’t kill us or shut us up, redefine us — then make us extinct. Problem solved.
Read More
I love a good debate. When I was at St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College, I was in the school debating...
Read More
Birds are singing, the grass is greener — and after Winston Peters’ announcement, there’s...
Read More
When I was young and apolitical, I didn’t get around to voting. It was the ‘80s. Party time. I met...
Read More
I’ve been to a fair few marae in Auckland. The first one was Hoani Waititi at Glen Eden, in...
Read More
Willie Jackson can be really annoying. In fact, that was one of the reasons we divorced about 16...
Read MoreE-Tangata is an online Sunday magazine specialising in stories that reflect the experiences of Māori and Pasifika in Aotearoa.
We welcome submissions or inquiries to:
editor@e-tangata.co.nz
Sign up for our email newsletter and get the latest E-Tangata stories sent straight to your inbox.
SubscribeYou can support E-Tangata’s kaupapa by contributing through PressPatron. With your help, we can tell more Māori and Pacific stories.
