Te Ao Māori
News and perspectives for and about tangata whenua in Aotearoa
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 September 2015
A Māori boarding school's board of trustees is holding hui with its owner, the Presbyterian Church, to find strategies to stop it from closing; A South Taranaki iwi says it is disappointed its fight… Audio
Water NZ wants more iwi-council cooperation
Water New Zealand is encouraging local governments to form partnerships with iwi to co-manage natural resources.
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 September 2015
A Māori boarding school's board of trustees is holding hui with its owner, the Presbyterian Church, to find strategies to stop it from closing; A South Taranaki iwi says it is disappointed its fight… Audio
Te reo to take centre stage in Chch
Christchurch's main theatre is to host its first ever fully te reo Māori play this month - a move its director says is an exciting development for the city.
Te Manu Korihi for 2 September 2015
Hawkes' Bay iwi Ngati Kahungunu says it's deeply concerned about the uncovering of a black market fishing operation in its rohe; A South Taranaki iwi says whitebaiters have nothing to fear from its… Audio
Te Manu Korihi for 2 September 2015
Hawkes' Bay iwi Ngati Kahungunu says it's deeply concerned about the uncovering of a black market fishing operation in its rohe; A prominent Northland kaumatua says the Maori Land Court has played a… Audio
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 September 2015
An East Coast family are fighting to keep their ancestral land not once, but twice; Ngati Paoa in Auckland says it's with a heavy heart that the iwi considers court action to affirm its mana whenua… Audio
East Coast whanau set to lose land once again.
An East Coast family fears they could lose their ancestral land not once, but twice. Audio
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 September 2015
An East Coast family are fighting to keep their ancestral land not once, but twice; Ngati Paoa in Auckland says it's with a heavy heart that the iwi considers court action to affirm its mana whenua… Audio
Encourage traditional medicine says researcher
Researchers studying traditional rongoā Māori say there is an urgent need to increase the number of healers to stop the knowledge from being lost forever.
Iwi back claim over Maori in prison
Two Hawke's Bay iwi entities are backing a retired probation officer's urgent claim in the Waitangi Tribunal alleging the Crown has failed to cut the high number of Māori in prison and their…
Keep wharf car-free says Ngati Whatua
Ngati Whatua is supporting calls to keep Auckland's Bledisloe Wharf clear of a giant carpark. Ngati Whatua is supporting calls to keep Auckland's Bledisloe Wharf clear of a giant carpark.
Te Manu Korihi News for 1 September 2015
An East Coast family are fighting to keep their ancestral land not once, but twice; Ngati Paoa in Auckland says it's with a heavy heart that the iwi considers court action to affirm its mana whenua… Audio
Hawkes Bay iwi say Crown hasn't cut numbers of Maori offending
Two Hawkes Bay iwi entities are backing a retired probation officer's urgent claim alleging the Crown has failed to cut the high number of Maori in prison and their reoffending. Audio
Dover Samuels tells of brutal school beatings
The prominent Northland kaumatua, Dover Samuels has told the Waitangi Tribunal a generation of Maori children were subjected to painful and degrading beatings for speaking te reo at school. Audio
Dover Samuels on being beaten for speaking te reo Māori at school
Former minister Dover Samuels has spoken for the first time of being left bloodied and bruised for speaking te reo Māori at school. Audio
Te Manu Korihi News for 1 September 2015
Ngati Paoa is threatening court action following the Maori King's announcement that Tainui Waikato has business in Auckland; Dover Samuels is giving evidence about being whipped for speaking Maori at… Audio
Dover Samuels to tell Tribunal of beatings for speaking te reo
Northland's veteran of Maori politics, Dover Samuels is giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal today about a subject he's never spoken of before in public - the brutal punishment of young Maori… Audio
Iwi looks at peat mining in Far North
A Northland iwi is looking at a proposal for a new extraction industry for former wetlands in the Far North - mining peat. Audio
Andrew Little responds to criticism trouble's brewing
The Labour leader has whipped two rebel MPs into line after they appeared to contradict Labour's policy opposing charter schools. Audio
