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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
