Māori business models can help rebuild the economy
A Māori business leader says Māori business models are showing the resilience needed to help rebuild the economy following the Covid-19 pandemic.
The story of the native wireless operators
Pacific and Māori people are lazy, childlike, heathens and in need of saving. These were depictions of the ‘earliest’ writers and researchers, narratives which have been adopted as ‘history’ by outsiders, in an attempt to understand the people and culture they were researching.
Dear Aotearoa, from mum
Ko Papatūānuku tēnei, it’s yo Mama here. I’ve just been hanging about, letting nature do nature, rivers be rivers, skies be skies and after three weeks of Aoteroa Alert Level 4, forced isolation, I want to share my observations.
Tuna, tapenade but no tangihanga
In a world with no Covid-19, the roads to Taranaki would be full of mourners this Easter weekend. Instead we are stuck in our bloody bubbles.
Former Māori TV boss salutes Huirangi
Soon after arriving at Māori Television as its new CEO in December 2004, I was confronted with a daunting array of reo and tikanga challenges spread far and wide across the organisation. It didn’t help that I was an absolute novice in both domains, and here I was, tasked with aligning our cultural aspirations with…
Māori tourism brought to its knees
Just six months ago, Nadine and Karl Toe Toe were on top of the world. They cleaned up at the 2019 New Zealand Tourism Industry awards taking the honours for ‘Community engagement’. Then Covid struck.
What to do with the kids?
Teachers are amazing but I don’t want to be one. And especially not to my own children. But in these exceptional Covid-19 circumstances I get the feeling there is an expectation I’m going to have to step up, at least for the next few weeks anyway. Where do I even start? It was a struggle…
Matangireia – interviews with Māori politicians
Matangireia is a series of six videos featuring one-on-one conversations examining the political legacies of Māori politicians. The series was produced by the Aotearoa Media Collective. Here are the videos.
The New Zealand wars – videos and podcasts
Here are links to a fantastic series of more than 30 video documentaries and recreations, podcasts and oral histories looking at the New Zealand Wars — in particular the 1845 Battle of Ruapekapeka in Northland, and Te Atiawa’s battles in Taranaki.