Moana Jackson

Guest writer

Dr Moana Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Porou) is a lawyer, author and lecturer specialising in Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional issues. He is the director of Ngā Kaiwhakamarama i Nga Ture (the Māori Legal Service) which he co-founded in 1987, and the lead researcher and author of the 1988 report, Māori and the Criminal Justice System: He Whaipaanga Hou.

Image: Tina Tiller

Moana Jackson: The art of having faith in ourselves

An excerpt from the esteemed lawyer and teacher's foreword to Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art.

By Moana Jackson | 31st March, 2022

Protestors march towards the Te Whare Runanga on Waitangi Day February 06, 2007 (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Where to next? Decolonisation and the stories in the land

'Old memories and histories were sung for those who would come after'

By Moana Jackson | 7th March, 2020