The power behind plastic
“I realised individual action is not enough. I realised we had to deal with corporations, governments, and institutions. We had to turn the problem off at the tap. The solution had to be political.” — Tina Ngata.
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Tag: decolonisation
No stone without a name
“Aboriginal people, if they appear at all in the landscape, are presented as ornamental figures, framing devices, exotic touches. Only rarely is their humanity expressed . . . Mostly they are simply absent.” — Kennedy Warne on the erasure of Aboriginal people in colonial art.
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Everyday acts of resistance to colonisation
“I’ve been fortunate to contribute to big systemic change, but it’s the little acts, the personal struggles on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis that I find both potent and fascinating.” — Aroha Gilling.
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Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary
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.
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Moana Jackson: His legacy will endure
“If he hadn’t taken on those fights, he could quite easily have buffered himself against the health issues. But he didn’t. He didn’t swerve. He didn’t flinch. He just kept on going.” — Ngahiwi Tomoana.
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From Parihaka to He Puapua: it’s time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past
“For many Pākehā, me included, our time here began on land that had been stolen (sorry, ‘confiscated’) from the people to whom it belonged.” — Professor Richard Shaw.
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None but ourselves can reboot our minds
“Colonisation’s most torrid battles take place in the mind. And here in Aotearoa, our thoughts have been held captive by misplaced perceptions of superiority and inferiority.” — Tainui Stephens.
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Justice Joe Williams: Let’s try and get it right
“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.
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Moana Jackson: Decolonisation and the stories in the land
“In this country, the potential exists to develop a different and unique decolonisation discourse because there are already stories which express the power of a different truth.” — Moana Jackson, from ‘Imagining Decolonisation’.
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Everything ancient was once new
“Words like ‘traditional’ are used to inflict violence against us.” — Dr Emalani Case.
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With stories, anything is possible
“The building of new relationships and the telling of new stories begins with the identification and ‘un-telling’ of colonisation’s past and present lies.” — Moana Jackson.
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