Te Ao Māori
Chevron Hasset on being the only working class Māori at his art school | The Outliers
“Working class Māori don’t actually attend art school.”
Chevron Hasset is an artist who was raised in Naenae, Lower Hutt. He shares what it was like to…
Māori Mermaid on how being Māori is a healing process | The Outliers
“I would say, oh I’m Māori. I’m Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Ruanui. You’d get challenged. You’d get oh, but how much Māori? What percentage are you?”
Jess Thompson…
TEEKS on being Māori in a mostly Pākehā music industry
TEEKS and Matariki Bennett have a beautiful kōrero at a beautiful location.
Dr. Keri Milne-Ihimaera | Māori and Education: 'Kia ora, Miss!'
She's devoted her life to proving the brilliance of Māori in a Pākehā education sector.
Stan or Not Stan with Stan Walker
Stan Walker gives his verdict on legalising cannabis, mullets and Daddy Bloomfield.
Khylee Quince | Māori and Jails: Locked Up
Associate Professor Khylee Quince (Te Roroa, Ngāti Porou) is a straight talker who doesn't deviate from the facts when it comes to the New Zealand justice…
Te Kuru o Te Marama Dewes | Māori and Decolonisation: The Indigenous Liberation
Pro-activism is in his whakapapa, it's in his DNA.
Ngāti Porou on what makes them different to other iwi
"The way they walk, their talk, their cheek and rugged manner." People of Ngāti Porou share what distinguishes them from other iwi.
22 kaikōrero (speakers) of the…
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi | Māori and Kura Kaupapa Māori: The Kura Kids
Welcome to The Taumata Kōrero.
11 people from Ngāti Porou share their views on cannabis
Kaikōrero (speakers) of the Ngāti Porou dialect share what they think about tarutaru (cannabis).
One year since police served an eviction notice at Ihumātao, the resistance lives on
One year since police served an eviction notice at Ihumātao, the resistance lives on.
As attitudes shift, more wāhine are carrying moko kauae
More wāhine are carrying moko kauae as we work to dismantle the impacts of colonisation.
The 'Bob Ross' of Māori carving has become an overnight streaming sensation
Twitch streamer Broxh loves his culture and his art form, and he wants to share it with the world. During lockdown, he started streaming his whakairo…
Checking in on Te Kao’s Far North Covid Checkpoint
How this remote town in the far, far north is keeping their community safe from Covid.
Decolonising gender and sexuality in Wellington city
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, political hub of Aotearoa and a city that carries the rep of being home to individuals all free to express themselves. This was the…
Teaching tamariki to live off the land
Tapere-Nui-A-Whatonga on the East Cape is one of the most remote schools in Aotearoa. This tiny school is teaching tamariki how to live off the land.
What does it mean to be urban Māori?
Today we launch a series on urban Māori identity. It features He Kākano Ahau, a podcast by Kahu Kutia (Ngāi Tūhoe), and Māori and the City,…
This whānau quit Australia to live off-grid
The prospect of long-term self-isolation has got some of us a bit anxious (looking at the panic buyers at Pak'n'Save), but this whānau has got it…
What's it really like when you go to Waitangi?
If you've never been to Waitangi before, it's easy to think it's all sombre politics and fighting, but the people there know it's about so much…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Whānau | Family
When he was four weeks old, Mana was placed into foster care. The first years of his life were marked with fear, violence and isolation as…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Hauora | Health
Medicine student Aniket Chawla is welcomed into a rongoā Māori wānanga (course) at Motatau Marae, near Kawakawa in Northland. He meets Juan and Tahjai Brown, twins…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Takatāpui | LGBTQIA+
Gender diversity was an accepted part of Māori and Pacific societies before colonisation. But European Christian values brought stigma and shame. Jaimie Waititi and Falencie Filipo…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Mātauranga | Knowledge
There are 110 statues or monuments in Wellington, but only 10 of those represent Māori narratives. Two strangers, Safari Hynes and Peter McKenzie, meet to discuss…
Exploring te ao Māori through gaming
Metia Interactive produces games situated within te ao Māori. In Guardian Māia, you guide Māia through a treacherous journey and help her gain mana. In Māori…
Stolen Stars with Miriama Kamo
We join Miriama Kamo at Te Mata Hapuku (Birdlings Flat), a place "teeming with stories of the other world." She shares with us the importance of…
Ihumātao Protests
Young Māori and non-Māori opposing a new housing development at Ihumātao (Te ihu o Mataaho) tell us how the struggle is grounded in New Zealand’s past.
Ihumātao
“The true beauty of this place lies within the intangible values. They reach back beyond the narratives that historians and archaeologists and heritage practitioners and law…
The meaning of Matariki
Astronomer Toa Waaka introduces us to the 7 stars that make up the Matariki star cluster, and tells us how Matariki is a moment for reflecting…
The Hāngi Master
To celebrate Matariki, one of the hāngi masters from The Maori Kitchen has brought a traditional hāngi pit to Britomart's Takutai Square in Auckland.
Mahuru Māori - Fortnite
Learning languages can happen anywhere, even online! We chatted with Ross McDougall about his mission to get te reo Māori into the gaming world via Fortnite.