The Supreme Court has spoken
“In its September decision, the court elevates the importance of tikanga, giving it more legal substance than it has ever had since the advent of colonisation.” — Kennedy Warne.
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Tag: Kennedy Warne
Return to Ōtata
“We were here to get to know the place — and let the place know us.” — Kennedy Warne remembers a day on Ōtata Island with a group of rangatahi.
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Restoring mauri is what drives me
“Without the authority to practise kaitiakitanga, it’s all just talk. We need to have mana, but gaining mana isn’t what drives me. Restoring mauri is what drives me.” — Dan Hikuroa.
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Fanaticism and the Eskimo Pie
The current protests over names and statues isn’t about erasing history, writes Kennedy Warne. They’re awakening us to a side of history that’s been ignored and suppressed.
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Facing the truth
“To move from dismay to justice, we have to become serious about economics — about wealth and who has it, and why.” — Kennedy Warne.
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It shifts, it changes
“Our world is changing so fast that many of last century’s realities are today not just irrelevant but even non-existent.” — Kennedy Warne.
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Rua Kēnana and the teaching of history
The move to make the teaching of history compulsory, “will not produce lasting benefit unless history comes to be seen not as information to be learned and then set aside, but as a force that shapes identity and influences choices.”
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A taniwha in the city
Te Routu o Ureia is not the only site in Heritage New Zealand’s official list that has a taniwha connection. But it is the only site that carries a taniwha’s name.
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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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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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