“We are swimming upstream, the trout are nipping at our heels, the farmers are draining our habitat, and algae are stealing our oxygen. It’s hard to survive, let alone thrive, in your white science department.” — Tara McAllister.
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“It’s more helpful to look at the question of Māori science as a tangle of semantic, philosophical, and political arguments, rather than a simple yes-or-no question.” – Georgina Tuari Stewart.
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“Instead of Pākehā academics questioning the validity of mātauranga Māori, they ought to take note of how Indigenous researchers with a background in both science and mātauranga Māori conduct their research in a way that’s innovative and entrepreneurial.” — Dr Jonni Koia, molecular biologist.
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“It’s only recently that we started to talk about ‘the Māori calendar’ — which doesn’t actually make sense. Because there’s over 500 of these calendars.” — Rereata Makiha, an expert on maramataka and ancestral knowledge.
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