The voice of the writer won through
“The Bone People is both a testament to this massive struggle against yourself (‘You are nobody’) and evidence that the struggle can be won. Hulme won.” — Rachel Buchanan.
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Tag: Rachel Buchanan
Waking the tūpuna
“I truly came to believe that these taonga were asleep while they were in the swamp. The carvings embody so much mana, mauri and power from the old world that is just undiminished.” — Rachel Buchanan, on the Motunui epa.
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George Ortiz and the Motunui epa
“To a Westerner, the art of the Pacific, particularly that of Polynesia, is like an escape, a search for purity and truth, a renewal,” George Ortiz, the Bolivian magnate who bought the illegally-acquired Motunui epa in 1973 and held on to them for four decades.
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Treaty settlements and the enjoyment of land rights
“The big question that still lies unanswered is not the acquisition of land rights, but the enjoyment of land rights. How do you enjoy being where you are?”
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Rachel Buchanan: Ko Taranaki Te Maunga
“Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain.”— Rachel Buchanan.
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