Close to the time of his death, my ancestor, Tutereinga, was asked where he wished to be buried. He answered: E koro ana mate koe, e hiahia ana koe kia takato koe i te taha o mātua e moe mai rā i te tihi o Mauao? E kao, ēngari me moe ahau ki Tahataharoa kia rongo ai… Read More Developing injustice: Māori, land developers and the future of grievance
WARNING: This is not a positive feel-good Waitangi Day column. I begin as did Paulo Freire: To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them, and fight at their side. This image appeared in the NZ Herald newspaper on Waitangi Day:Like others, I hope the use of a White Power image was inadvertent, though… Read More Waitangi: it’s time to break the leash
On 21 January 1864, General Cameron despatched a naval force to Tauranga Moana. You will read consistently that he did this because the iwi of Tauranga provided food, resources and men to the war in the Waikato, so logically he wanted to cut the supply line. That is inaccurate. Patrick Nicholas prepared evidence for the… Read More Te Ara Wairere: following my ancestors to the Waikato from Tauranga Moana
In the Comments section of my last blog on pōwhiri, I and others have had a spirited debate about tradition, colonisation, and gender roles. One of my assertions is that the pōwhiri has been subject to colonisation and transformed by the experience. I wanted to follow up on this and consider what may have happened… Read More Pōwhiri is a reinvented tradition
In a pre-match warm-up for this election year, the Speaker and the NZ Herald have stretched their conservative credentials by cleverly feigning outrage at both the misogynistic and outdated cultural processes of Māori people and the spectre of political correctness that requires Parliament to follow those very processes. All of this apparently began at the… Read More Pōwhiri have a purpose; and it is not to dominate women
3pm, 20 November 1863. General Cameron orders the gunboats Curacoa and Pioneer to begin the two hour bombardment of the Rangiriri Pa lying between Lake Kopuera and the Waikato River. 1,400 colonial troops wait. Five hundred warriors endure. At 5pm, 600 troops storm the pā. The engagement into the evening leaves the British with 110 dead… Read More The First Station of the Cross: Rangiriri
As I grumble about Halloween and Guy Fawkes, there is a regular flow of comments from friends on my Facebook posts whose theme is to entreat me to enjoy the events and let children have their fun. There were similar comments on a friend’s page when she criticised Columbus Day. I wouldn’t characterise most of… Read More Whose country is this? Halloween, Guy Fawkes & Parihaka
I have just finished listening to Julian Wilcox, head of news and current affairs for Māori Television, being interviewed on Radio Waatea about the storm that has rumbled away in the last fortnight after Native Affairs investigated the mismanagement of funds by Te Pātaka Ōhanga directors and management (who are also, of course, the Trustees of Te Kōhanga Reo… Read More Pākehā-fication of Māori Media AKA Stop with the accountability already!
I’ve been interested by some of the comments I have heard and read about our Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust board in the past week since Native Affair’s scoop on Monday night. I recommended Morgan Godfrey’s blog in my last post, I want to do the same for Te Putatara‘s informed and informative blog. Te Putatara… Read More We need to talk about money…
I’ve been at our kura’s wānanga reo in Manaia on the Coromandel Peninsula for the week, so I am few days behind everyone else in the twitterverse (which is an eternity in Twitter time). So it was only yesterday that I watched the Native Affair’s Feathering the Nest, the second part of their investigation into the… Read More The Empty Nest: why we should remove the Kōhanga Reo trustees
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