Lachy PatersonLachy Paterson

Dr Lachy Paterson is a historian of Māori history, Māori textual culture, and race relations in Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, at the University of Otago.

The history of the n-word in New Zealand

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A Pūhoi pub is refusing to remove a piece of memorabilia bearing the n-word from its walls. Dr Lachy Paterson looks at the history of the word here, and New Zealand’s complicity in Britain’s shameful slave trading past. Content warning: This article contains racist language and images. On a pub wall in Pūhoi, covered in … Read more