Te Ao Māori
News and perspectives for and about tangata whenua in Aotearoa
Google crowdsources Māori place name pronunciations
If you come across a mispronounced Māori place name while using Google maps you are now able to correct it.
Te Waonui for week ending Friday 8 September 2017
Nā Tarahae Ko Mate, Jealousy is our downfall. This was the debate topic at Te Reo ki Tua, a Māori language symposium hosted by Ngāti Kahungunu. Debaters include Leon Blake, Kingi Kiriona, Elizabeth… Audio
Maori Party would prefer coalition with Labour
The Maori Party is hovering just above one percent, enough to secure one seat, but not quite enough to bring in a second MP in to Parliament, assuming it wins an electorate. Video, Audio
The importance of curating and celebrating contemporary Maori art
We are a creative nation. No one knows that better than art historian and contemporary-art curator Ngahiraka Mason. The former Indigenous Curator Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is now… Audio
Rua Kēnana's descendants to hear historic pardon
The descendants of Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana will gather in Maungapohatu this weekend to witness the righting of an historic wrong. In front of several hundred people at the foot of Tuhoe's sacred… Audio
Māori Party keen but wary of working with Labour - Marama Fox
Māori Party co-leader, Marama Fox, says Helen Clark never made an apology for the Foreshore and Seabed Act, and Labour is showing a similar argument in it's discussion of water rights. She says the… Audio
Precious prayer book dusted off for NZ Wars commemorations
As preparations are made for the country's first official commemoration of the NZ wars; a number of precious taonga or treasures, including a Maori prayer book, dating back to 1883, are being dusted… Audio
Hundreds protest water bottling proposal in Whangarei
Traffic was stopped in Whangarei today during the march against plans for a water-bottling operation at Poroti Springs, which have been owned by Maori since the 1890's. Lois Williams reports. Video, Audio
Waiariki: the Te Wero debate
Candidates for the Māori seat of Waiariki discuss regional development, water ownership, Treaty Settlements and the support the Māori Party has given to a National government. Audio
Audio taonga comes to light 80 years on
The oldest recorded Māori language broadcast - dating back to 1938 at Tūrangawaewae marae in Ngāruawāhia - is one of the prize recordings in the first of four online exhibitions by Ngā Taonga Sound &… Audio
Te Waonui for week ending Friday 1 September 2017
More than 600 people have committed to speaking only in te reo Maori for either one full day, week, or the entire month in September; Te Puea Marae in South Auckland has begun discussions with the… Audio
Hundreds to speak only Te Reo in September
The annual Mahuru Māori Challenge has begun and more than 600 people have committed to speaking only in Te Reo Māori for either one full day, week, or the entire month, regardless of who they speak to… Audio
New SH3 bypass route to veer away from kōkako habitat
The route chosen for the Mt Messenger bypass on State Highway 3 is the most resilient option on the table, the Transport Minister says.
Fashionistas champion diversity with new modelling agency
A new modelling agency specialising in 'polyeurasian' models aims to increase diversity in the fashion industry.
Hemi Kelly: Sleeps Standing Moetū
A first national day of commemoration on October 28th is designed to put an end to what has been described as an "uncomfortable silence" about the New Zealand Wars. Witi Ihimaera's new novella Sleeps… Audio
Māori Jews
There's been a Jewish History in New Zealand since the very beginning of the 19th Century - so it should come as no surprise that some of our population identify as Māori Jews. This is a segment… Audio
Waikare Komene: 'You can achieve anything no where matter you've come from'
South Auckland has some amazing talent, but its young people need more support to channel their creativity, says architect Waikare Komene, co-founder of design firm Creative Native and The Roots… Audio
Te Ikaroa-Rāwhiti: the Te Wero debate
Candidates for the Maori seat of Te Ikaroa-Rawhiti debate welfare, health funding, the Ture Whenua bill, Treaty Settlements and boot camps during the run-up to the General Election. Audio
The Mixtape: AWA
This week's RNZ Music mixtape selector is best known as the vocalist for Nesian Mystik. But since the band called time Te Awanui Reeder has been a busy musician, student, father and iwi business man… Video, Audio
Te Waonui for week ending Friday 25 August 2017
The battle for the Hauraki-Waikato Maori seat this election is a contest between two cousins, while candidates in Auckland's Tamaki Makaurau electorate are getting a clear message from voters they are… Audio
