The second migration: stories of urban Māori
In the course of Urban Māori, a 300-page book being launched next week, Bradford Haami has told...
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Tag: Reflections
Why I didn’t sit with the other Māori girls at school
I grew up in a predominantly Pākehā town in the South Island. My mother is Pākehā. My father, who...
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Nadine Anne Hura: I’m reclaiming the name I lost
In my life, I’ve had three names. I have lost one, borrowed two, and am in the process of...
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From Hick’s Bay to Waipareira
This is an extract from Kia Pū te Wai o Pareira — He Kōrero a-Whānau, a Waipareira publication...
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No way do you leave the west
Like many other Waipareira stalwarts, Roimata Hansen has strong ties with the North. But she has...
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The Great Silence — the heartbreak of losing te reo
In the opening sequence of the cult classic The Great Silence, the cowboy — a lone figure on a...
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It all started with Ten Guitars
We’ve done a fair few te reo stories on e-Tangata. But it seems you can never have too many,...
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Catching the wave — remembering Nuki Aldridge
Nuki Aldridge died on October 30 at Kawakawa, and was laid to rest in his hometown of Kaeo. A...
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Kennedy Warne: No more shoes on Uluṟu
In two years’ time, Uluṟu /Ayers Rock will be closed to climbing — an outcome the traditional...
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Damon Salesa: Our Pacific future is already here
New Zealand might not be ready to see itself as a Pacific country, but its Pacific future has...
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Joanna Kidman: Reaping our own strange and bitter harvest
Last week, I was at home finishing off a paper for a conference when I heard a hacking smoker’s...
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Kramer Hoeflich: We see the person before the disability
Kramer Hoeflich, 25, was paralyzed after an accident in the Cook Islands, a few days after his...
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Māmari Stephens: The long shadow over our marae
Our marae need attention, protection, words and warmth, writes Māmari Stephens in this essay...
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Tāmati Kruger: We are not who we should be as Tūhoe people
Tūhoe leader Tāmati Kruger delivered this year’s annual Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture at the...
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Graham Cameron: Pity the life of the uninterested kapa haka observer
Our four tamariki have been in Māori medium education their whole lives. Jo and I had chosen to...
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Yet another story where Māori get to be violent, badly dressed criminals
I was scrolling through my Facebook timeline — as I am wont to do when faced with rapidly...
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Māmari Stephens: Just what are we really commemorating with Rā Maumahara?
I remember a few more over the last couple of decades in Wellington as attendance at such...
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Joanna Kidman: Should we destroy the monuments of our colonial past?
Not long ago, a group of graduate students had an impassioned discussion about an obelisk. It was...
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It’s what you might call architecture-tanga
What can designers and planners learn from tikanga Māori? An Auckland architect, Tony Watkins, offers some thoughts.
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Moana Jackson: How about a politics that imagines the impossible?
It is often said that politics is the art of the possible. The election campaign over the last few...
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Steph Matuku: What the heck is Māori Literature?
This piece by award-winning Taranaki writer Steph Matuku is one of five features celebrating Te...
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Embracing the chaos — the challenges of bringing up kids with te reo
Scotty and Stacey Morrison have spent 10 years bringing up their bilingual kids, and speaking only...
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Tusiata Avia: I go to my sister-artists and we talk
This piece by Tusiata Avia, a poet, performer and writer, began as a talk presented at Conchus...
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Can we make progress if we never question our Māori traditions?
In this essay from Ora Nui 3, Going Global, Hautahi Kingi, a Whanganui-born economist now working...
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Tuila’epa — ‘the standout leader of his generation’
In 2012, when Samoa celebrated 50 years of independence, Victoria University awarded an honorary...
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Filipe Manu: ‘Dilworth gave me so much’
Filipe Manu, a 24-year-old tenor from Auckland, beat off four Aussie singers to win the Australian...
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#MyMumWasMetiria
Whatever some people think we’ve taken from this country, we have given back tenfold.
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What is the role of Pākehā in supporting te reo Māori?
I caught up with the movie Poi E! the other day, and tears welled up at the sight of Ngoi...
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Is there still hope for Mana magazine?
The news that Mana magazine is having an indefinite (and perhaps permanent) breather is neither...
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Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds
Thanks to the generosity of Bridget Williams Books, here are two excerpts from a book launched...
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