IJ
May 22, 2021
Political - Changing History
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/draft-history-curriculum-misses-600-years-of-aotearoa-new-zealands-past-panel/26NXF6L7FKZPZWNAWXFROXVANI/#...
MD
May 14, 2021
Sidestep: Traditions and Legends
COLLECTED FROM THE NATIVES OF MURIHIKU. (SOUTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND.) by H. BEATTIE. 1918. AN EARLIER CANOE. After having given the Waitaha...
IJ
May 7, 2021
1000 years
Day after day, I feel myself slowing down, what does it mean? The air has changed, it's getting harder to breathe, or so it would seem...
IJ
Apr 30, 2021
170: Moriori Differences
Yes, we are still on this, and for a good reason. It is easy for an academic to condemn such comparisons from the perspective of 2021...
YM
Apr 16, 2021
Sidestep: Cultural? It isn't now
At one time Europeans (and others) kept slaves. It was almost accepted practice then - it isn’t now. At one time Maori kept slaves. It...
IJ
Apr 2, 2021
169: Melanesian musings
For the uneducated in ocean going travel and looking at the fact that Melanesia is closer to NZ than Polynesia, you'd be right to at...
MD
Mar 19, 2021
Sidestep: The Patupaiarehe
We don't go much for these legends. But that doesn't mean these people, or a form of them, didn't exist, we are more sceptical for the...
IJ
Mar 5, 2021
168: The Moriori question (again...)
In late November 2020 a group of Moriori trustees attended a ceremony at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to receive a whalebone taonga...
IJ
Feb 19, 2021
Sidestep: The Last Maori vs Maori Armed Conflict
Maori have been fighting each other since 1350. Many battles, some very famous, are recorded. All were with clubs and spears. Ngati Hotu...
IJ
Feb 12, 2021
167: What does the Kaitaia carving represent
The above carving (known as Tangonge) has been debated by many, including us. In the early days many believed it not to be of Maori...