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We must continue the struggle to protect our Tamariki: An update from #handsoffourtamariki
Tēnā koutou katoa, Ngā mihi o te wā o Matariki, o Pūanga ki a koutou katoa. After a long struggle nearly 5 years ago we took the #Handsoffourtamariki Petition to the steps of Parliament to call on the Government to uplift and actively enact Section 7AA. We were supported by 17,381 that signed the petition and…
Creating and Holding Safe Space for Māori and Pacific Nations Students.
Today Winston Peters made yet another of his extreme and uninformed statements about Māori and Pacific spaces at Auckland University. Comparing the creation of cultural safe spaces to the ‘Ku Klux Klan’. The Prime Minister has jumped in with The Herald noting “Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he hasn’t seen “the detail” of the segregated…
Colonisation, Neoliberalism and Māori Education
Herbison Invited Lecture, NZARE Annual Conference 2017 E āku iti, e āku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. Kei te rere ngā mihi maioha ki a koutou, arā ki a tātou e toitū ana mō tō tātou reo rangatira, tikanga, mātauranga me ngā āhuatanga katoa o tēnei whenua. I tēnei rā kua whakaingoatia e te kāwanatanga i tētahi…
Reclaiming Hineraumati
This year is the first that I decided to not give gifts on December 25th and to not acknowledge that day as a day of any significance. For many years I have removed the representations and meanings of both christmas and the Pākehā new year and have returned to an acknowledging of Hineraumati during the…
Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Healing our trauma
This article was first published by E-Tangata There’s growing recognition that historical trauma can be reproduced and passed down through the generations, where it shows up in a wide range of social harms seen in colonised peoples around the world — including family and sexual violence. Healing that trauma is still a work in progress. …
Kaupapa Māori Theory, Research methodology, Practice and Expressions of Rangatiratanga
This Blog is a copy of a Presentation given in February 3rd 2020 as Professorial Lecture, Ngā Wai a Te Tūī, Unitec, Ōwairaka, Tāmaki Makaurau Ko Taranaki, ko Kariori ngā maunga Ko Waitara, ko Waikato ngā awa Ko Te Tai o Rehua, ko Whaingaroa ngā moana Ko Te Ātiawa, ko Waikato, ko Ngā Māhanga a…
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