“All I want to do is keep carving without trampling on anyone’s mana. I kept hearing ‘mahi tapu’ being bandied about, and I thought: ‘All right, what is this mahi tapu that people say wāhine aren’t supposed to take part in?’” — Ngaroma Riley.
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