Te reo Māori use by under-fours widespread - research
A new study has found te reo Māori is flourishing among pre-schoolers, with nearly three quarters of New Zealand four-year-olds using at least some of the language.The research, led by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, analysed information from Growing up in New Zealand, the country's largest study of child development.It found 10 percent of children could speak or understand simple sentences in te reo Māori at age four - and about 20 percent of those were non-Māori.Executive Director of Res...
June 7, 2020Building a country free from violence against Indigenous women and girls
On the land, in classrooms, in boardrooms – wherever we choose to be is where every Indigenous woman and girl should be. Instead, I’ve watched as many of my sisters have been found dead, abandoned in rural ditches and left at the bottom of city rivers. This reality continues to persist one year after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its final report, which symbolized the promise of a new era. It compiled evidence of the forces th...
June 6, 2020Indigenous communities, land rights and Covid-19
Indigenous territories impacted by oil palm, mining and criminalisation are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 - yet still they support those most vulnerable. Food sovereignty within the Indigenous communities of the Indonesian archipelago is under threat, not least during a pandemic. The Banten Kidul Indigenous Peoples are known for their advanced technique of food preservation, but violent incursions by mining companies and complicit governments threaten trad...
June 6, 2020Defending Land and Water From Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
Over the years, the mining industry has taken advantage of dictatorship, disasters, and a variety of distractions to expand operations in Latin America. In the time of Covid-19, with entire populations under lockdown and economies falling apart, mining companies have also hopped on the pandemic profiteering bandwagon.The potential implications are wide-reaching. In Latin America, the areas of interest to mining companies whether they are exploring or digging for gold, silver, copper, iron-ore, a...
June 6, 2020A message for NZ about racism
As protests sparked by the death of George Floyd unfold across the US, David Mayeda has a message for NZ: 'For those of you who don’t experience racism, be publicly anti-racist - support those of us who do'.Monday evening in Washington D.C. shortly before a 7pm curfew and just before President Donald Trump made a White House speech, police “fired tear gas, flash-bang shells, and rubber bullets into a crowd of peaceful protestors”. By now, most of us are aware of the protests unfo...
June 4, 2020Māori-led Oranga Tamariki inquiry did not require response - Minister
Children's Minister Tracey Martin says she was never officially asked to do anything about the Māori-led inquiry into Oranga Tamariki which was commissioned by Whanau Ora.The inquiry was one of five initiated after Oranga Tamariki tried to take a newborn baby from a Hawke's Bay mother last year.The three-part report, released in February, was based on contacts with more than 1000 whānau on their experiences of the Ministry.The review detailed three key actions to overhaul the system: supportin...
June 3, 2020Nature is key to NZ's post-Covid future
Ngāi Tūhoe is coming through the Covid-19 crisis with a much stronger sense of mana motuhake, says Tāmati Kruger, chair of the iwi who are guardians of the Te Urewera mountains and land to the north in the eastern Bay of Plenty.“It is the capacity to be self-reliant, to provide care and support to each other. That proves the value and the worth of the iwi because essentially an iwi is a kinship organisation. Without hesitation I say to you, this crisis has been the best opportunity to exhib...
June 1, 2020COVID-19 ADVICE FOR MĀORI
"We are still operating under the fallacy that one size fits all. A national programme, while necessary, will exacerbate health inequities. While things are being done for the general population, they don't have an equity lens, which is essential from the beginning." - Professor Papaarangi ReidAs tangata whenua, it’s important that Māori have access to tailored and relevant information, resources and practical guidance and advice on how to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-1...
June 1, 2020How COVID-19 impacts Indigenous communities
Even before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, people were receiving the directive to repeatedly and thoroughly wash their hands. As the days go on, the need for self-isolation, whether you’re showing symptoms or not, is increasing in an attempt to flatten the curve. But what does that mean for the countless Indigenous Peoples across Canada who don’t have access to clean water or proper housing? Currently there are more than 100 drinking water advisories, external link in First Nations ...
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May 30, 2020An iwi-based futures lab is reimagining outcomes for its rangatahi
While many areas of the workforce have been shaken by the effects of Covid-19, a Ngāi Tahu futures lab has been working to give rangatahi Māori the opportunity to decide their own futures.Futurists have thought up myriad strategies for how the world should look post-Covid. For all its hurt, the global pandemic is offering nations a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape their economies, the way people live their lives and the help they’re given along the way. For Māori, this could be a c...
May 29, 2020Covid-19 and Māori health: ‘The daily 1pm briefings have been an exercise in whiteness’
Looking at the outward face of the Covid-19 pandemic response in Aotearoa/New Zealand, you’d be forgiven for wondering where one of the Treaty partners is.No matter where you look – cabinet, those delivering official communications, experts informing the government response, submitters at the special parliamentary select committee or the go-to voices in the media – the partnership appears to be pretty lopsided.If there has been genuine Māori engagement in any of these spheres, it’s been...
May 29, 2020The vilification of ‘the Māori mother’ in Aotearoa: family violence and victim-blaming
New Zealand’s shameful rates of family violence place us at the bottom of the heap when it comes to intimate partner violence and child abuse in the OECD. Māori are among the greatest offenders and victims alike. Simon Day spoke to Denise Wilson about the history of family violence in this country and her solution to the problem.In New Zealand 194 people were killed as a result of family violence in the seven years from 2009 to 2015, according to the Family Violence Death Review Committee. M...
May 29, 2020Hokia ōu maunga kia purea koe e ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea
Wainuku and whakamā There are lots of ways to describe not feeling right or feeling like life is going in the wrong direction. This site calls it depression or anxiety. As Māori, these are some of the things we might experience:Wainuku – when your mood is really low and you feel down in the dumps. When we’re anxious or feel depressed, the waters of our bodies are dragged towards Papatūānuku. Whakamā – when you feel ashamed or shame about who you are or your situation. Maybe you’re s...
May 29, 20206th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference: 2022: Aotearoa
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May 25, 2020How Indigenous Peoples Practices Can Guide Our Recovery From COVID-19
With the COVID-19 crisis highlighting the crucial importance of a balanced relation with nature and interdependence of human, animal and environmental health, Cristina Eghenter, Deputy Director, Social Development, WWF-Indonesia, argues that learning from Indigenous Peoples is the best way to repair our broken relationship with nature and secure a healthy future for all. Broken RelationshipThe world today is battling an unprecedented health crisis of a scale unforeseen in recent history. The COV...
May 23, 2020COVID-19 Is Devastating World’s Indigenous Communities Beyond the Immediate Health Threat
By Catherine Caruso May 21, 2020Why Global Citizens Should Care:The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is increasing inequalities across the globe by disproportionately impacting people living in poverty and marginalized communities. Join us and take action to combat the coronavirus here. Indigenous communities are being devastated by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic beyond the immediate threat to their lives, according to UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples José Fra...
May 23, 2020Isolation not enough to save Amazon indigenous village from COVID-19
TRES UNIDOS, BRAZIL (Reuters) - Tres Unidos, an indigenous village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, locked out all visitors, hoping that isolation would keep it safe. And yet the new coronavirus still came.It arrived, most likely up the Rio Negro, the giant snaking river that connects Tres Unidos with the Amazon’s largest city, Manaus - five hours away by boat. The rivers, the lifeblood of these remote communities, are now also bringing disease. The dots of confirmed coronavirus deaths on a ma...
May 23, 2020PM offering $75 million more in COVID-19 aid to Indigenous people living off-reserve
OTTAWA -- The federal government is increasing the amount of funding aimed at Indigenous people in Canada who are living off-reserve, adding $75 million to the existing Indigenous Community Support Fund, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday. On March 18, the government created a $305 million Indigenous Community Support Fund, which included $15 million for regional, urban and off-reserve Indigenous organizations. Trudeau said topping up the funding for Indigenous communit...
May 23, 2020Health researcher hopes COVID-19 means new policies for Indigenous peoples
The Canadian Press · Posted: May 17, 2020 10:11 AM CT | Last Updated: May 18A health researcher studying COVID-19 as part of a national immunity task force hopes the pandemic elevates concern for persistent health issues, such as inadequate housing, for Indigenous people in Canada. "This pandemic has opened the eyes for a lot of people across Canada," said Dr. Carrie Bourassa, scientific director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health, part of the Canadian Institutes of H...
May 21, 2020Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500,
by Sam Cowie on 18 May 2020Indigenous groups in Brazil are reeling from COVID-19 as infections and the death toll rise, with 540 cases and 103 deaths among 38 ethnic groups now reported by Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples’ Articulation (APIB). APIB says that the real numbers are likely much higher due to notification delays and underreporting. Worst hit is Amazonas state which has recorded 78 indigenous deaths, and its capital, the rainforest metropolis Manaus, where officials say ...
May 20, 2020'COVID-19 Is Devastating Indigenous Communities Worldwide,
Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 7:15 am Press Release: UN Special Procedures - Human Rights The new UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenouspeoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, today expressed seriousconcerns over the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemicis having on indigenous peoples beyond the healththreat.“I am receiving more reports every day fromall corners of the globe about how indigenous communitiesare affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it deeply worriesme to see it is not alw...
May 20, 2020COVID-19: New Maori Party candidate accuses Government of 'ethnic cleansing'
Donna Pokere-Phillips, who's standing in the Hauraki-Waikato electorate seat in the upcoming 2020 election, says New Zealand is witnessing "the greatest peacetime loss of civil liberties in our history at the exclusion of a Māori voice". She warns the recently-passed COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill gives officials warrantless entry on to premises including marae, as well as the power to detain people, prescribe treatment, and take possession of land and buildings."Warrantless entry on to o...
May 17, 2020Māori Council welcomes unity in confronting government during Covid-19
Māori unified to confront the government over alarming Covid-19 rules for tangi and marae, the Māori Council says.The government drew harsh criticism from Māori when it announced on Monday that tangi would remain limited to 10 people at alert level 2.Within days, the rules were revoked and a new limit of 50 was set.There was further outcry when details of the Covid-19 Health Response Bill revealed police could search marae without a warrant if they suspected people were breaking the governmen...
May 15, 2020Waitangi Tribunal looks at scope of its Oranga Tamariki inquiry
The Waitangi Tribunal is weighing up what the scope of its inquiry into Oranga Tamariki should be, and how it can thoroughly investigate why Māori are disproportionately taken into state care, within a tight urgency timeframe.It is the fifth inquiry into Oranga Tamariki to arise since the ministry tried to take a newborn baby from a Hawke's Bay mother last year.Representatives of the claimants, including those representing the midwives at the centre of the Hawke's Bay case, have met with the tr...
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