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Kāi Tahu holds strong to right to invite PM

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon arrives on Ōnuku Marae in Akaroa on Waitangi Day. Photo: RNZ...

Kāi Tahu holds strong to right to invite PM

Dame Naida Glavish had a crack at our iwi for hosting the Prime Minister on Waitangi Day on Banks Peninsula at Ōnuku, saying we were being used so he could avoid going to Waitangi.

Honouring our commitments

It is remembering season for some of the colonies.

More than a mountain

Aoraki is my emblematic mauka, it is symbolic and quintessentially Kāi Tahu.

Handmade stories of connection

Golden syrup or jam?

Connections as old as the sea

Our people are the wayfarers of the ocean, we live by the lore of the sea, we are fed by it and fear it.

Just way out of line

At a recent community breakfast, people were chatting as they queued, and it seemed like a good idea at the time to talk to the man next to us in the line.

Navigating school journey never easy

Navigating school journey never easy

My mātaamua, my girl finished school this week forever and what a journey it has been! She steps in to her next journey with trepidation and nerves, but I am pretty sure she will be OK. However, let me tell you, it hasn’t been easy.

Disaster woven in our histories

Water springs up from a manhole cover at the bottom of Blacks Rd, North East Valley. PHOTO:...

Disaster woven in our histories

It takes a village to raise a child and to rally in the face of a civil defence emergency.

A name destined to unite

Nga Wai Hono i te Po, the Māori Queen ... what struck me first, was what a beautiful name! Megan Ellison writes.

A new generation makes its own way

I unapologetically share stories about being a māmā because I take the parenting gig fairly seriously.

Mana Wāhine: Ko wai tōu ingoa?

Ko wai tōu ingoa?

I’m sharing this piece with someone I know well.

Connected by water and stars

The rising of Matariki, the star cluster known as Pleiades, usually happens near the end of June...

Connected by water and stars

Matariki has been the focus for Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu over the past few weeks.

Restoring stars to the heavens

Kare Tipa delivers a karakia at the Matariki hautapu. PHOTO: RICHIE MILLS

Restoring stars to the heavens

Matariki allows us to reflect on whānau and experiences at a time when we welcome the new year.

The look of love

As I try to raise and guide three teenagers, I have come to realise that I fall back on what I know and how I was raised.

What’s in an ingoa?

What’s in an ingoa?

In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.

A name that holds the memory

My son is named Tūkitaharaki after his great grandfather.

Prioritising what we really need

When I go home it’s like stepping back in time.

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Rekindling an ancient flame

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Rekindling an ancient flame

Over the summer holidays, I climbed a mountain.

Lessons at the kura

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, the country’s youngest member of parliament in 171 years, proudly declared at a pre-election debate in 2023, that the kōhanga reo generation is here.

The politics of naming

The politics of naming

Names are a big deal in my whānau, hapū and iwi — although the name Megan was an unexciting last resort when I surprised my parents, who thought I was boy and had a name sorted for him.

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