Māori building methods get full earthquake test
Internationally acclaimed architect and researcher Professor Anthony Hoete and his team will this month conduct a full-scale…
The Māori King visits Hawke’s Bay
The Māori King, Kīngi Tuheitia, visited the cyclone-affected rohe in Hawke’s Bay on Monday as part of his five-day visit to communities in Ngāti Kahungunu rohe. He was welcomed at Ōmahu Marae in Hastings on Monday morning. The visit is aimed at supporting marae and kaupapa Māori recovery responses. Kīngi Tuheitia’s staff from Waikato-Tainui and […]
Connecting with rongoā Māori (traditional Maori medicine) to help clients
Bianca Fallon, a New Zealand-based hair and make-up artist, is integrating traditional Māori healing into her business to help clients cope with mental health issues. With more than 25 years of experience, Fallon has a master’s degree in Applied Indigenous Knowledge and has seen a significant need for Rongoā Māori, a form of traditional Māori […]
Indigenous groups in NZ fear colonisation as AI learns languages
The development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models that learn from mass data sets scraped from the web to create original text, images, videos, and more has raised growing concerns about plagiarism, unethical sourcing of data, and cultural appropriation. While these technologies can help preserve and revive indigenous languages, harvesting data without consent risks abuse, […]
Rita Ora accidentally creates new Māori idiom
Rita Ora, the famous pop star, has unintentionally sparked a new Māori saying or idiom after making a mistake while trying to speak the language in a recent interview. Ora, who is dating Māori filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi, shared during a BBC 1 interview that she has been learning Māori words from her partner […]
New Zealand Fashion Week will return in 2023
New Zealand Fashion Week will return in 2023 after a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced by the new owners and leadership. The “reimagined event” is scheduled to take place from late August to early September at the Viaduct Events Centre on Auckland’s waterfront. This year’s event will be the first Fashion Week […]
Rural town steps up to meet challenge of hosting major Tūhoe festival
After a five-year hiatus, the biennial Tūhoe festival, Te Hui Ahurei a Tūhoe, is set to return over Easter weekend.
Bilingual keyboard allows users to type in te reo Māori
The device, released by Lenovo and AMD, wants to support the learning and use of te reo Māori and is the first of its kind.
Eastern Bay of Plenty Iwi accept $100-million settlement
Iwi in the Eastern Bay of Plenty have voted to accept a $100-million settlement offer from the Crown, marking an end to nearly 30 years of negotiation. The Whakatōhea iwi’s treaty settlement has been one of the longest running, with an initial $40-million offer rejected in 1996. In the Crown’s current offer, accepted by the […]
Indigenous remains returned to New Zealand from Austria
The remains of 49 Māori and Moriori people, taken by an Austrian taxidermist, have been returned to the country. The remains were brought back to New Zealand last month from the Natural History Museum, Vienna. They were taken from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands by Austrian taxidermist and grave robber Andreas Reischek, who lived […]