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A war crime at home

Posted by Tainui Stephens | Dec 1, 2024 | Reflections

“They’d lost the sights, sounds and smells of their Taranaki home, but never the story that took them away.” — Tainui Stephens.

‘Our history is your history’: Lessons from Parihaka for Pākehā

Posted by Sarah Hopkinson | Jun 30, 2024 | History, Reflections

“There are a great many Pākehā who, like me, are very supportive of tino rangatiratanga . . . We know that Tiriti justice will remain our most enduring protest issue until the Crown catches up with this reality.” — Sarah Hopkinson.

Growing up in the wops

Posted by Airana Ngarewa | Sep 3, 2023 | Arts

“Everyone I grew up with has story upon story like this — a sprinkling of farmers in Taranaki high as a kite on mistrust and suspicion, fiercely defending stolen land from the ones they stole it from.” — Airana Ngarewa on his new novel The Bone Tree.

The white tears of Taranaki

Posted by Sarah Hopkinson | Aug 20, 2023 | Reflections

“My people’s story in Taranaki didn’t start so much with the milk flowing, but with the muskets firing.” — Sarah Hopkinson reckons with her history and the future of dairy farming.

Waking the tūpuna

Posted by Connie Buchanan | Mar 5, 2023 | Arts, PIJF

“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.

Uncovering the stories my family forgot, about a past still haunting Aotearoa

Posted by Richard Shaw | Jul 10, 2022 | History

“The instruments used to displace the querulous Irish … are the same as those subsequently deployed to deal with the troublesome Māori.” — Professor Richard Shaw.

The Supreme Court has spoken

Posted by Kennedy Warne | Oct 24, 2021 | Comment & Analysis

“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.

From Parihaka to He Puapua: it’s time Pākehā New Zealanders faced their personal connections to the past

Posted by Richard Shaw | Jul 25, 2021 | History

“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.

Bernie O’Donnell: Healing through taha Māori

Posted by Dale Husband | Jun 20, 2021 | Kōrero

“They treated us poorly. But that was the only life I knew, so I thought things were fine.” — Bernie O’Donnell.

Face up to tikanga: Court of Appeal to EPA

Posted by Kennedy Warne | Jun 14, 2020 | Comment & Analysis

“If it seems surprising for a New Zealand court to provide a lesson in the Māori worldview as part of a decision about a proposal to mine the seabed, then it is equally surprising to hear the court lecture decision-makers on their failure to engage meaningfully with that worldview.” — Kennedy Warne.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Taking on the world from Pātea

Posted by Dale Husband | May 31, 2020 | Kōrero

“In our darkest time, with so much going against us in Pātea, our whānau created Poi E.” — Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.

Whaikōrero with subtitles

Posted by Vanessa Ellingham | Apr 26, 2020 | Reflections

“Huirangi’s online memorial offered those of us still working on our reo a very rare gift: whaikōrero with English subtitles.” — Vanessa Ellingham.

We owe so much to Huirangi

Posted by Andrew Robb | Apr 19, 2020 | Reflections

“Huirangi met every test of his strength, courage, integrity and leadership to secure the rights of future generations to the language of his tipuna.” — Andrew Robb on Huirangi Waikerepuru.

The Anniversaries of our Amnesia

Posted by vivian Hutchinson | Mar 8, 2020 | History, Reflections

“I’m starting to understand that amnesia may well be one of the main organising principles of colonisation. A selective forgetting is an important part of how power maintains its privileges.” — vivian Hutchinson.

Treaty settlements and the enjoyment of land rights

Posted by Rachel Buchanan | Nov 3, 2019 | History, Reflections

“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?”