“I look at all the examples around the country of the strides and changes we’ve made. And suddenly this government wants to take it all away? Nah. It's not going to happen. Because our people are already on the journey, and they’re not about to be stopped.” — Professor Margaret Mutu.
Read More
“The dangers of digital colonisation may not be obvious yet because, on the surface, technology seems to be advancing our reo and our connections instead of suppressing them.” — Siena Yates.
Read More
“I had a lot of ideas. But every time I tried to turn them into a sentence in te reo, it amounted to: ‘Māori good. Colonisation bad. Matua smart. Me dumb.’ And also: ‘Me tired. Want nap.’” — Siena Yates.
Read More
“Yes, we want people with in-depth mātauranga Māori writing about that knowledge. But we also want people who are struggling with their identity as Māori, or who have just come to it, because those are valid experiences in Aotearoa today.” — Robyn Bargh.
Read More
“Coming up in the world of fashion, Kiri Nathan ran into brick walls at every turn, was told she wasn’t good enough, or her work was ‘too Māori’ to sell.” — Siena Yates.
Read More
“The colonisers tried to make us conform to a heteronormative way of living and being — and I reject this kaupapa.” — Allan Heta Cleaver.
Read More
“She wrote that mamae and those fears into her song, so others who could relate might find some comfort in it.” — Siena Yates on Whirimako Black’s classic waiata ‘Kei hea taku reo?’
Read More
“It would have cut out such a huge chunk of our grief and trauma if we’d done it the way that our people used to do it.” — Sharday Cable-Ranapia.
Read More
“Their plan was simply to show up at the students’ common room and ask them to take off the grass skirts. But the meeting became a confrontation and quickly blew up.” — Katie Wolfe, on the haka party incident.
Read More
“Something that we’ve found, which Māori should be so proud of, is that our culture provides proven protective factors against mate wareware (dementia).” — Dr Makarena Dudley.
Read More
“The Māori karanga sound is designed to activate the sorrow that you hold inside yourself. That’s the function — that’s the purpose.” – Te Raina Ferris.
Read More
“The moment you entered the festival, you became everyone’s ‘sis’ or ‘aunty’ or ‘kare’ — and they became yours.” — Siena Yates, on her first Matatini.
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.
