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Andrew Robb (Photo: Supplied)

He maimai aroha: Anaru Robb, te reo advocate, political activist, journalist

'Anaru helped change history and the future of te reo in Aotearoa.'

By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

Contributing writer

New subdivisions spring up around the wading birds in Papakura (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)

Riding the tide home

As sea walls are chewed up and spat out like loose teeth, coastal property owners are scrambling to sell. All the while, Māori are packing up their cars and driving headlong into the eye of it.

By Nadine Anne Hura

Contributing writer

Theia (Photo: Supplied)

Te Kaahu’s new reo Māori album Te Kaahu O Rangi, track by track

Theia talks us through the nine waiata on her stunning new album.

Māori Shed Party creator Tyra Wainui-Dunn. (Image: Bianca Cross)

The story behind the Māori Shed Party Spotify playlist

It's 29 hours long and has over 35,000 likes. Meet the person behind everybody's favourite playlist.

By Charlotte Muru-Lanning

Don’t miss Auckland Art Gallery’s breathtaking Pacific feminist exhibition

Don’t miss Auckland Art Gallery’s breathtaking Pacific feminist exhibition

It features work from 12 artists – including one stunning piece being performed live one time only.

By Tulia Thompson

Image: Tina Tiller

Story sovereignty: Māori taking back control of our narratives

'It’s speaking your truth unfiltered, uninterrupted, on your own terms, at all times.'

By Trinity Thompson-Browne

From left: Te Wairoa Piripi, Hekiera Te Rangai, Huihi
Pou-Patate, Te Huia Raureti, Mahu Te
Mona and Te Wharerangi Parekawa all fought in the Waikato War (Photo: James Cowan, c.1914,
Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/1-017975-g)

Difficult history: How we remember – and forget – the New Zealand Wars

When it comes to traumatic events in our history, whose memory counts?

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

29th April, 2022

The High Court’s ‘groundbreaking’ Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei judgment, explained

The latest development in a seven-year legal battle by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei to assert its exclusive legal rights as mana whenua in central Auckland.

By Charlotte Muru-Lanning

Image: Tina Tiller

28th April, 2022

About all that ‘Māori nonsense’ on the radio

Most of us don’t see te reo as 'Māori nonsense', but as one of this nation's unique treasures – and thank goodness for that.

By Rawinia Higgins

Te Aomihia Walker in Iceland (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Tina Tiller)

28th April, 2022

The ocean that binds us: How indigenous collaboration is helping to protect the moana

Thousands of years of indigenous knowledge can help rebuild our marine environments – and one Ngāti Porou wahine is leading the way.

By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

Contributing writer

Image: Bianca Cross

25th April, 2022

The Indigenous women who got me to Oxford

Mother, grandmother, mentor, friend: these are the women whose dedication to Māori success helped carry me here.

Image: Supplied/Bianca Cross

23rd April, 2022

Mō āke tonu: Moana Jackson, stories and faith

'Moana had an ability to treat everyone, even the unknowing, even those who’ve just showed up for the cause, with respect and interest and care. He made a person feel special.'

By Nadine Anne Hura

Contributing writer

Te Wehi Wright and his whānau (Photo: Supplied)

21st April, 2022

The ongoing fight for Māori to school our own, our way

'They’ve constantly tried to fit us into a system that won’t ever be sophisticated or reflective enough to love and grow our tamariki.'

By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

Contributing writer

(Image: Archi Banal)

17th April, 2022

The tragedy of being Māori and tone deaf

When music is so embedded in your culture, what happens if you can't sing?

By Airana Ngarewa

Contributing writer

Patricia Grace, then and now (Photos supplied; photo illustration by Archi Banal)

17th April, 2022

Patricia Grace, the great navigator

'It’s more than a mindset, this resolute spirit. It is her very being.'

Image: Archi Banal

14th April, 2022

Matariki is more than just a holiday

Rain or shine, our annual pre-dawn observance of the rising of Matariki reaffirms our Māoritanga.

By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

Contributing writer

At odds over the Marsden Point response: Brad Flutey, Deborah Harding, Aperahama Edwards (Photos: Supplied)

12th April, 2022

‘Go home,’ iwi tell Marsden Point protesters as fresh splits open in occupation movement

It comes as recriminations fly between Flutey and other figures in the parliamentary occupation movement.

By Toby Manhire

Editor-at-large

Ngāti Kahungunu and Rangitāne law student Safari Hynes (Photo: Supplied; additional design by Archi Banal)

7th April, 2022

‘Matua Moana made me want to be a thinker, an educator, an organiser and a doer’

A Māori law student on how the late Moana Jackson changed his life.

By Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

Contributing writer

Design: Tina Tiller

4th April, 2022

TV co-creators Michael and Matariki Bennett on whānau, fantasy and the art of letting go

The latest Beyond the Veil episode is about a family learning to let go, letting their daughter fly – in more ways than one.

By Matariki and Michael Bennett

Kaimahi from Te Hau Ora o Ngāpuhi at a mobile vaccination clinic (Photo: Supplied/The Spinoff)

1st April, 2022

More than any others, Māori are now lining up to get their first dose of the Covid vaccine

Among the more attention-grabbing daily Covid stats is one small number that attests to the tireless work of Māori health providers – first doses administered.

By Meriana Johnsen