Politics and its commentary can be a platform of the most immature and puerile expressions of human behaviour. It is dominated with huge amounts of energy towards bringing ‘other’ parties and people down. It is […]
Author: Kiri.Dell
Kiri Dell from Ngati Porou, Te Whanau a Apanui. I am many things.
Mother
Aunty
Poet
Entrepreneur
etc
Pakeha Anger: Why Do They get Mad at Maori?
So on one beautiful Sunday arvo in downtown Auckland, I was out having a couple of catch-up beers with the cuz, when we unexpectedly got talking to a Pakeha, let’s call him Joe. In his late thirties, […]
A New Indigenous Order: My Thoughts on the Chaos of the U.S Election and Trump Aftermath.
I felt slightly sick when I heard Trump would be the next American president. I have deliberately over the last 12 months tried to make no mention of the circus known as the American Election because […]
Wahine Toa Leadership Conference and the Strange American Tie.
In my line of work I attend many conferences, most of which I struggle with because presentations are often unoriginal ideas and conversations are just cliché dialogues. I don’t usually go to gender specific conferences […]
The Ugly Reflection in the Mirror: Why Indigenous People are Not Looked At.
People don’t look at each other enough, and don’t make enough effort to understand diversity,m which would help them to accept that there are multiple and many ways to live and be in this world. Understanding […]
The Lost World of Maori Wealth & Abundance
I absolutely love this picture, because everything about it screams abundance. The picture was painted by Cuthbert Charles Clark, at a hakari (feast) held in the Bay of Islands in 1849, it is an enormous erected […]
Maori and the Next-Level Meditation!
I’ve always been struck by how the tools promoted to achieve meditative states seem quite foreign to a Maori way of being. To pull yourself away from everyone, to be alone, to be on you own, to […]
The Great Māori Shame Legacy
As Māori, we don’t deal well with shame or whakamā. Yet, our people are riddled with it. Whakamā impacts our social, spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing. It sits at the birthing place for our addictions, […]
