taonga Māori

The website helping Māori access crucial data about their own communities

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A new website has consolidated data about and involving Māori, making it easier for iwi groups, trusts and Māori communities to access the statistics that impact their lives. A collaboration years in the making, the new Figure NZ and Callaghan Innovation website Pātaka Raraunga aims to make Māori data access easier for everyone. Consolidating thousands … Read more

These are my feathers: An extract from Te Manu Huna A Tāne

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Matariki Williams is Te Papa’s Mātauranga Māori curator. In an extract from Te Manu Huna A Tāne, she writes about how honouring the kiwi became a lesson in honouring her own heritage.  This essay has been abridged by Williams and its original title is Into the Void.  There is a photo on my sideboard. It … Read more