I’m an aspiring healthcare worker and we have a large focus on Māori models, treaty of Waitangi, etc. As a person of colour, I’ve found some attempts at integrating Māori culture and language a little tone deaf and superficial - but what do I know! What are some things you all appreciate/ don’t appreciate?
EDIT: what do you think about healthcare workers trying to incorporate Māori words/ greetings when communicating with you?
If anyone has seen the human variants in 5e, this is what I'm going for, just a basic description of their looks, I've got names sorted but I've had no luck with the māori, so I've decided to ask here.
"What, really, is a rāhui – and can political parties enact them?
A conversation with waka hourua captain and Treaty educator Tāwhana Chadwick on what rāhui is, and who has the right to enact it.
Rāhui is an indigenous science that has been gaining recognition in Aotearoa. More recently, political parties and people in government have taken to using the term to describe their policies. This has been met with resistance from community leaders within te ao Māori.
In this interview, I speak with Tāwhana Chadwick about rāhui and what he understands it to mean. Tāwhana is a waka hourua captain with 50,000 nautical miles of blue water experience. He is also a Tiriti educator with a passion for justice.
Laura O’Connell-Rapira: Kia ora, e hoa. Thank you for making the time. To start off, can you tell me a little bit about your background?
Tāwhana Chadwick: Nō Ngāti Kahungunu, Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto. I grew up in kōhanga and kura kaupapa. Went to Victoria University. During that time, I was involved with the waka hourua and waka ama community learning about sailing, navigating and mātauranga Māori. Through that I met lots of other Pacific peoples and learned about our shared heritage and whakapapa. My mum is what they call a Pākehā Treaty worker and a lot of my whānau are teachers and so Tiriti work, facilitation and education are all passions of mine.
Based on your understanding, and the lessons that have been shared with you, what is your understanding of rāhui?
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Last week, after seeing the racist backlash against a South Auckland family victimised by a false rumour, Emmaline Pickering-Martin read an interview with the young professional white male who’d started the rumour. Here’s her response to that interview.
Most of you have probably heard about a rumour that was circulated online around how the latest outbreak of Covid-19 in Auckland came to be.
The rumour was completely untrue. And last week, Dylan Reeve interviewed the man who had started the rumour with a single post made to the online platform Reddit. The interview was posted on David Farrier’s website Webworm, and you can find it here.
Throughout the interview, the “young professional” male discusses how he came to create the post, why he took the post down, and his response to the flow-on effects from his decision to create that post. This piece of writing isn’t to criticise Dylan or David as I appreciate and am a consumer of both of their work — but, rather, to discuss some of the uncomfortable feelings I felt after reading the interview on Tuesday morning.
We all know the statistics confirming that Māori and Pacific communities in Aotearoa are our most marginalised. We know more specifically that our women face higher rates of discrimination across the board in every type of situation from healthcare, gender pay, employment, education — the list goes on.
So when I read this interview, I had three responses.
First of all, I had a sick, visceral feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s that feeling when you know something is wrong and so absolutely effed up that it makes you sick.
The second feeling was anger — that feeling when you read something and you know how much this will affect people you love and you want to fight the world with all your strength and all your swear words combined.
The third feeling was the academic one. The one where all the statistics and research and big words flew into my head and made me want to write a paper about racial hierarchies in
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" Meriana Johnsen, Journalistmeriana.johnsen@rnz.co.nz
Heritage laws need to change to stop the repeated destruction of wāhi tapu and Māori archeological sites, an academic says.
It comes after Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Tāonga launched legal action against two people over a vineyard built on an archeological site at the Wairau Bar, which will be heard in Blenheim District Court on 14 July.
The individuals are alleged to have breached section 87 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Tāonga Act, which states it is an offence to modify or destroy an archaeological site authority from Heritage New Zealand, if it is known or it was reasonably suspected it was an archaeological site.
The Wairau Bar, on Marlborough's East Coast, is the earliest known Māori settlement in the country, dating back to 1250AD.
Archaeologists believe at least 200 people may have settled there not long after the first Polynesian navigators landed in Aotearoa.
More than 40 kōiwi or human remains have been discovered there, alongside hundreds of artefacts.
Rangitāne o Wairau descendant and activist Keelan Walker has been fighting for the protection of wāhi tapu sites at Wairau Bar and said two individuals being charged was "a good start" but he wanted to see results.
He said the Crown had breached the Treaty of Waitangi by failing to protect archeological sites in the area for the second time in four years.
"It happened again, and that's where the breach is - it's like, 'hang on, if you guys haven't got a process that protects and preserves our wāhi tapu, then that's a failure'."
He said heritage legislation was biased towards private landowners.
"It is actually designed and written to give private landowners more rights than what is is designed to protect - wāhi tapu - on that land.
"To me, if the act is flawed and the mechanism they employ to carry out what they promise is flawed, then that's a failure."
Victoria University M
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"Thousands of New Zealanders have marched at Black Lives Matter rallies in Auckland and Wellington this afternoon.
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Black Lives matter protesters take a knee outside the US consulate in central Auckland. Photo: RNZ / Mabel Muller
The Auckland march, which started at Aotea Square, headed down Queen St and ended at the US consulate, where protesters took a knee and observed a minute of silence for George Floyd.
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The Auckland rally opened with a karakia at Aotea Square and a mihi whakatau from Graham Tipene of Ngāti Whātua, who told the crowd to "keep it peaceful".
"Our kids are here, so let's do it right and fight for what's right."
There were some counter-protesters, including some who yelled out 'all lives matter' during speeches, but those there for the BLM gathering were told to ignore them, or to take a knee if they saw them.
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The Black Lives Matter march heads off towards Queen St. Photo: RNZ / Mabel Muller
Members of the Ethiopian and Somalian communities addressed the crowd on the Black Lives matter movement, along with social justice campaigner Julia Whaipooti, who talked about the use of armed police in predominantly Māori and Pasifika areas. [and condemned Colonialist persecution and thieving from Māori]
"For many of us this is not a new moment in time, not a hashtag on Instagram."
Emilie Rakete from People Against Prisons Aotearoa and the Arms Down movement also spoke about armed police and said the "truth is that we live on a graveyard in Aotearoa", with NZ police laying down the bodies. [and condemned Colonialist persecution and thieving from Māori]
"When the cop
... keep reading on reddit ➡I apologise in advanced if this comes across racist I don’t mean for it to, but I’m honestly curious as to the reason people who identify as Māori don’t require University entrance to attend?
I’m a Year 13 in school and am planning on attending University next year but while looking at all the different scholarships and entry requirements I found a lot of areas where you can go to university without the standard entry requirements solely based of identifying as Māori. There were scholarships you can get purely for being Māori. I do understand that statistically the medium income of Māori people is lower then the medium income of Pakeha people but instead of giving all Māori this benefit how come it isn’t based purely off your income. For example if your yearly income is less than a certain amount then you get exceptions to the entry requirements to Uni or you can apply for certain scholarships based on your income not your ethnicity.
Thanks guys for reading and helping me understand and I’m sorry if I offended anyone that wasn’t my intention.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/309918/maori-party-refuses-to-support-helen-clark's-un-bid
" 1 August 2016
The Māori Party says it can't support Helen Clark's bid to head the United Nations because of the way she treated Māori when Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Miss Clark, who now heads the United Nations Development Programme, hopes to become the next secretary-general of the world body.
But Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox said Helen Clark had a poor track record when it came to respecting the rights of indigenous people.
"The Labour Party refused to sign the Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is a part of the UN agenda.
The Labour Party in its time saw the Tuhoe raids and of course also there is the Foreshore and Seabed amendment which took the rights of Māori away to go to court."
Ms Fox said someone seeking the top role at the United Nations should be able to acknowledge their past mistakes and apologise for them.
But Labour says the Māori Party's refusal to support Helen Clark in her bid to head the United Nations stinks.
Labour Party Andrew Little said Labour had apologised for the raids and the legislation and the Māori Party's stance was disappointing.
"This is an opportunity for New Zealand to have the leading role, the prestigious role and Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years, someone who's made a huge contribution to New Zealand, that ought to be recognised."
Mr Little said he would have thought her appointment would help all New Zealand, including all Māori."
