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AUTUMN 2023

Collected from Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere

Mātauranga - Commentary & News - Autumn 2023

New Zealand cities suffering crisis of identity - architect | RNZ News

A leading Māori architect says New Zealand towns and cities are suffering from a crisis of identity. Keep Reading

Mātauranga Māori is no threat to science, it is complementary - Researcher | Te Ao Māori News

OPINION: Tūpuna Māori (ancestors of Māori) arrived on these lands voyaging from Polynesia between 1200 and 1300AD, and with them arrived the first science of... Keep Reading

Indigenous knowledge offers solutions, but its use must be based on meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities

One key difference between kaitiakitanga and conservation is that the former considers people as part of the environment, while the latter manages nature as if people were separate from it. Keep Reading