The Hīkoi Begins

Nau Mai, Haere Mai! Welcome to the class blog for MAORI570 Te Mahi Rangahau: Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Research - a graduate level paper in Faculty of Māori & Indigenous Studies at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato (University of Waikato) taught by Dr Hayley Marama Cavino (Ngāti Whiti/Ngāti Pūkenga). We will be using this blog …

Professor Jacinta Ruru

He Karakia Whakakapi Ka whakairia te tapu Kia wātea ai te ara Kia turuki whakataha ai Kia turuki whakataha ai Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Restrictions are moved aside, so the pathway is clear. To return to everyday activities, to return to everyday activities. Enriched, unified and blessed Profile She is the daughter of Norm and Andrea …

Professor Charles Menzies: Placing Community at the centre of all Indigenous Research

As is custom at the beginning of anything Māori, let’s start with whakawhanaungatanga; Ko wai o Charles Menzies? Charles Menzies, also traditionally named Hagwil Hayetsk, was born in British Colombia, Canada. He is indigenous to North America with whakapapa to the Gitxaala Nation in British Colombia and the Tlingit and Haida Tribes in Alaska. He …

The Jade Taniwha: Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan

Kimihia te mea ngaro Seek that which is lost (Hapu Aotearoa, n.d). Dr Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan is a Māori-Chinese scholar whose work transcends the colonial norms of education and is a massive contributor to Kaupapa Māori research. He uri ia nō Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Te Ahiwaru anō hoki (NPOTM, n.d.). Initially a high …

Dr Nēpia Mahuika: Rethinking, Revitalising, Re-storying Aotearoa New Zealand History

Ehara toku maunga Hikurangi i te maunga haere, engari he maunga tu tonu.[i]- Te Kani-a-Takirau (Ngāti Porou) With a prodigious repertoire of publications from a burgeoning career in the field of history, Dr Nēpia Mahuika (Ngāti Porou) steadfastly seeks to resist the perpetuation of colonizer-controlled nation state history and unravel the continued misconstrued myths influenced …

Te Ruahine Ngahuia Murphy: Re-Centering the Divine Wahine

Windows bare for Hina, I rock cross-legged at the edge of my bed. Faerie lights watch me sway through guitar and male pronouns in Lauryn Hill’s Selah. I bend for every scream, silence, and sunrise at the tūāhu of Dr. Ngahuia Murphy’s Te Awa Atua and Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā …

Dr Ranginui Walker

Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou an expression of hope and aspiration, and my own introduction to the writing of Dr Ranginui Walker. The book, a 462-page triumph details the history of Māori, from te kore through to the political struggle for Māori ownership of the foreshore and seabed, which became a galvanising political issue in 2004, …

Dr Clive Aspin – An ode to takatāpui identity

I first encountered the work of Dr Clive Aspin (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā) in a previous assignment for a Kaupapa Māori psychology paper, a mock Marsden proposal entitled, ‘Nōku tēnei reo: Exploring perspectives on takatāpui as kaikaranga and kaikōrero’. It was in doing this research that I first discovered that, despite a rich, …

Raranga – The art of weaving

A blog responding to the readings of an Indigenous Academic- a brief discussion of the holistic benefits of raranga and harakeke being used in mental health and how this article applies to me and my own rangahau. The author of the article Raranga - The Art of Weaving is Tauke Kirkwood, he is a social …

Privileging incarcerated wāhine as experts of their own condition, provides a platform to inform decarceration strategies

The artistic energy of wāhine at Auckland Women's Regional Correctional Facility: Image, Alta van Wyk I can remember the first time I experienced the insight that Dr Tracey McIntosh brought to the incarcerated space for Māori wāhine (women). I had had the foresight, given her respected name in regard to her correctional mahi (work), to …

MOANA JACKSON

Iriaka Rohe-Potae Marshall Tena ra koutou katoa... He uri tenei no Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Kahungunu me Ngai te rangi. I have chosen to write on Moana Jackson. After reading several of his works and listening to many of his speeches, he has taught me so much. His interests align with mine and in particular regarding Maori people in the criminal justice system. He is an inspiration to me and im sure to many other people in Aotearoa and across the world. I only wish I had the opportunity to meet him and tell him how much I admire his work. He has left a profound impact on my mind which im sure will influence my work as not only a criminal defence lawyer for Indigenous peoples but as a Wahine Maori trying to navigate this complex world. E te rangatira, Nga mihi aroha kia koe mo to mahi tino whakahirahira. Me takoto koe inaeanei, hoki atu ra ki o matua tipuna. Moe mai, moe mai, moe mai ra....