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28th
JAN

Teaching indigenous culture

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UNESCO estimates that indigenous peoples make up five percent of the world’s population, but they often face the threat of losing their cultural identity. Learning World looks at projects aiming to preserve indigenous languages and traditions in New Zealand, Bolivia and Ethiopia. Maori Immersion School, New Zealand The first Maori Immersion School was set up 26 years ago to teach indigenous children in New Zealand about their traditional heritage by things like re-writing songs using Maori words. It is a teaching method that is not often used in mainstream schools, but singing is central to Maori culture. Thirty years ago, the school only had a primary section but parents and teachers decided to create a section for older children too….

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28th

Hui planned on SOE sales law changes

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The Government is to hold a series of hui to consult with Maori on how they might be affected by the legislative changes needed to partially privatise four state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The proposed changes will remove four electricity companies and a coal company from the SOE Act and put them under new legislation that ensures the Government retains at least 51% ownership. SOE Minister Tony Ryall says the Government wants to talk to Maori about their views on the changes. He says, at the moment, section nine of the SOE Act has a reference to interests and principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. Mr Ryall says there will be debate about whether it’s necessary to have that reference in the…

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28th

Booklet offers Maori tips on homegrown food

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A Wanganui-based organic soil expert has launched Growing Your Own Kai, a resource booklet designed to help Maori grow their own food. Work on the booklet, written by Lisa Talbot and illustrated by Cecelia Kumeroa, began in October but was completed by Christmas. Te Atawhai o te Ao, the Castlecliff-based Independent Maori Institute for Environment & Health, had commissioned the booklet as one of a series of three resource booklets for Maori on growing and gardening in an organic fashion. Another booklet planned for the middle of the year will focus on community gardens and growing commercially. Environment and health researcher Dr Paul Reynolds said the book was an “awesome” resource for Maori. “And, of course, it’s about one of…

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27th
JAN

Masseur specialises in ancient massage

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LESPA at the Sofitel Queenstown Hotel & Spa has introduced a new Maori spa specialist and therapist to its already extensive range of services. Elizabeth Davis, more commonly known by her traditional Maori name of Riri, originally hails from the North Island and belongs to the Ngati Wai and Te Rarawa Iwis. Her specialty is Mirimiri, a form of massage indigenous to and practiced by the Maori tribes of New Zealand. Considered to be the ancient taonga or treasure of healing by massage passed down by Maori ancestors, Riri for the very first time brings those techniques learned from her parents and grandparents personally to guests of LeSpa at Sofitel. A seventh generation healer and therapist, she is one of…

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27th

ALERT – Email SCAM targeting Maori (and how to stay safe)

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Whanau, just a heads up, there is an email scam circulating at present targeting Maori. An email was received yesterday pretending to be Aunty Ranui Ngarimu from a fake yahoo account in her name. It started with “Kia ora”, and then was similar to other email scams trying to seek funds due to being stranded…

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27th

Steel pou bring Maori presence to Albany

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Seven contemporary stainless steel pou (sculptured poles) were installed at the Albany campus this week. The pou, which will provide a distinctive Maori presence and cultural symbol for students’ educational journey, will be blessed along with the new student amenities centre at a dawn ceremony on February 8. Six pou are five metres high and 300mm in diameter, and the seventh is 6.5m and 400mm wide. Each has a meaning, with wording and designs digitally polished onto the surface, while the remaining area has been bead-blasted to give contrasting textured and matte surfaces. The first has the word Kakano to represent the seeding of a thought, and the student, and the seventh and tallest pou has the words Tiki Tiki…

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27th

Iwi deal to co-manage 90 Mile Beach

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Far North iwi Te Aupouri will celebrate a major milestone tomorrow when it signs a two-part deal which gives it a hand in governing 90 Mile Beach. Treaty Negotiations Minister Christopher Finlayson says he hopes it brings much-needed economic development to one of the most impoverished areas in the country, while a tribal negotiator said the iwi will work hard to move Te Aupouri to a brighter future. Significantly, it is the first of four iwi in the region that will sign an individual settlement but also collectively settle issues of overlapping interests. As a group, the tribes - Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa, Ngai Takoto and Ngati Kuri - are known as the Te Hiku Forum. The beach is one…

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27th

Ngai Tuhoe commends natural poison research

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A Ngai Tuhoe descendant who is helping to research native plants which could cull possums says he’s glad a wildlife management centre is looking at natural poisons to replace 1080. The centre at Lincoln University near Christchurch wants to create new ways to protect native animals and plants from pests. Lincoln University senior researcher Shaun Ogilvie says there are several natural toxins in New Zealand forests which could be used. He’s working with Tuhoe in studying the native plant tutu, which may be used to manage possums. A Ngai Tuhoe descendant, James Doherty, says the centre at Lincoln is helping continue the work of his group, Nga Matapopore, which has researched the affects of 1080 in Te Urewera forest. He…

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27th

Try voting

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The idea of reserving a set number of seats for First Nations politicians in Parliament appeals to some Canadians’ sense of fairness. But as a means of improving the clout of native people, it is misguided. Increasing political heft for the First Nations would require a revamp of the federal electoral system where an indigenous party could play the political game. The New Zealand model, which reserved seats for the Maori beginning in the late 19th century, is most often cited as a fix for good indigenous representation. In reality, the model watered down the influence of the Maori, who vastly outnumbered the non-Maori at the time. Their influence was minimal until 1996, when New Zealand adopted multiple-member proportional voting,…

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27th

Patea town liquor ban plan slammed

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Patea people are at odds over a permanent liquor ban for the town. The Patea Community Board insists it is urgently needed, and this week voted to ask the South Taranaki District Council to introduce a bylaw banning all liquor in public areas between the 70kmh signs at the northern and southern highway entrances. But at least one representative of the town’s Maori community has savaged the proposal, suggesting it is decision-making by a bunch of elderly people who are out of touch. “They’ve exacerbated something that doesn’t really exist because it’s far too hard and innovative to come up with something that would be a better option for them,” said Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, chief executive of Te Runanga O Ngati…

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27th

Maori ask for say in whare

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An emotional plea has been made to give Maori a greater say in the running of the Emilia Maud Nixon Garden of Memories. Local Maori want the management of the rebuilt whare in Howick’s Garden of Memories placed in their hands rather than outsourced to an independent contractor. At an impassioned meeting between the Howick Local Board and Maori group Te Wai Ora O Nga Hau E Wha, the board was asked to re-think its plans to have programmes at the whare run by an independent community organisation. Four of nine board members – chairman Michael Williams, deputy chairwoman Adele White, John Spiller and Jim Donald – attended Monday night’s meeting at Te Tahawai Marae in Pakuranga. Many spoke at…

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27th

Weather delays return of toi moko

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Bad weather has delayed the return of 20 toi moko from France to Te Papa today. Waiata were already being performed when several hundred people gathered for the ceremony were told the plane carrying the preserved Maori warrior heads had been forced to return to Auckland, because of winds gusting up to 130km/h. The ceremony has now been rescheduled for 7am tomorrow. Flights leaving Wellington have been hampered today by the city’s notorious wind. A flight to Blenheim has been cancelled altogether, while the majority of other scheduled flights are delayed. Flights into the city have also been impacted, with some having to turn back to their original city of take-off. End to struggle The toi moko had been held…

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