Tag: Maori culture
Hīkoi day 9: 35,000 join as Treaty Principles Bill protest reaches...
RNZ News
More than 35,000 people today gathered as Aotearoa New Zealand's Hīkoi mō te Tiriti overflowed from Parliament's grounds and onto nearby streets in...
Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau
Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit...
Te reo Māori inspires Native American to save her own indigenous...
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau
Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas is on a mission to save her indigenous language from extinction. There...
Snapchat removes moko, mataora tattoo filters after NZ outcry
RNZ News
Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature that allowed users to apply traditional Māori tattoos on their faces.
The filters were pulled after...
Celebrating 35 years of te reo Māori as an official language,...
By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ News Te Ao Māori reporter
On the 35th anniversary of te reo Māori becoming an official language, the Māori Language Commission...
‘This is when we came of age’, says Māori leader on...
RNZ News
Today's Matariki celebrations signal the maturing of Aotearoa New Zealand, says Māori leader Sir Pou Temara.
A ceremony attended by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
Matariki falls during a quiet retail season – but NZ businesses...
ANALYSIS: By Mike Lee, University of Auckland
Aotearoa New Zealand will enjoy a new official public holiday on June 24, with the country marking Matariki...
Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality
National Māori Authority chair Matthew Tukaki has seen plenty of protests and received his fair share of abuse, but what’s been happening in Wellington...
Māori Party calls for indigenous debate to address NZ racism, white...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The co-leader of New Zealand's minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party...
Separatist or radically inclusive? What NZ’s He Puapua report really says...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
For many New Zealanders, He Puapua came shrouded in controversy from the moment it became public knowledge earlier...
Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive...
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan
“Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”...
Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters...
NZ Parliament ejects Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over haka
RNZ News
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been ejected from New Zealand's Parliament for doing a haka in protest against questions by the Opposition...
Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament
By RNZ News
New Zealand's parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie...
Jacinda Ardern on health, Ihumātao, Matariki, housing and Māori issues
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Three years ago, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern campaigned on kindness and transformation.
As New Zealand heads to the voting booths...
Whakapapa through portraiture – Taaniko Nordstrom talks to RNZ
By RNZ Saturday Morning
Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits,...
Whakarewarewa: A silence not heard in 100 years thanks to covid-19
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ Manu Korihi reporter
New Zealand's border restrictions have cut off more than 90 percent of visitors to Rotorua's oldest tourism...
A lone Māori voice raising Te Ao issues at the covid-19...
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
You might not know his face, but Māori Television’s Heta Gardiner has been one of the most valuable and...
Compulsory Te Reo Māori debate fails to address key problems, say...
Māori language week was celebrated last week and the key issue in the media was a debate on whether Te Reo Māori should be...
Learning te reo Māori a pathway to Aotearoa’s culture and history
Eden created an online series for Te Karere voicing the political views of youth. Video: AUT
By Michael Neilson, Māori affairs reporter of the New...
Kupu: New app translates objects into te reo Māori
Te Rina Kowhai reports for Te Karere. Video: TVNZ
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A new app developed by Spark and Google in conjunction with the Research...
Lifetime of devotion to Māori and Pacific student success
PROFILE: By Leilani Sitagata
Educator and kuia Tui O’Sullivan has recently retired from Auckland University of Technology after close to 40 years of service.
Born and...
A tale of colonisation – deep music connections for Māori, Caribbean
By Lynda Chanwai-Earle of RNZ National
Two flags fly proud over the inaugural steelband festival in Auckland’s Silo Park, flapping in a brisk late summer...