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 structure of a stage, where … Continue reading The Lost World of Maori Wealth & Abundance
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 be without anyone, always seemed … Continue reading Maori and the Next-Level Meditation!
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, obesity, violence, aggression, depression and … Continue reading The Great Māori Shame Legacy
Recently I read some belittling and demeaning comments with regards to where I had questioned another authors integrity. It caused a nerve with quite a few (non-Māori), who were then spurred on to write blogs, react and comment in a mostly … Continue reading A Mauri Assault: A Kuia’s Lesson in Dealing With Haters
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This is the keynote address by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, from the He Manawa Whenua Conference 2013. There are so many good take-aways in this for us as indigenous researchers to… Continue reading Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Live Up to Our Talk
Kua hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō Return to your spiritual and physical nourishment Mother and baby are one of the most powerful relationships that can exist between two humans. The bonds, attachment and connections that come into play … Continue reading Whenua Ūkaipō: Returning to the Mother
There is something happening on our whenua that we are ignoring and it needs serious attention. Conventional measures to addressing the wickedness of the Maori land problem have fallen to directing a strong focus on the legislative, administration, and structural issues. … Continue reading Taming the Wickedness of the Maori Land Problem
I am the master of my fate, I am the Captain of my soul One of the reasons I started this blog is my concern for Maori poverty and violence, especially against children. My objective of this blog is … Continue reading The Quest to End Maori Poverty and Violence
