"And to see these non-Maori, the pakeha, hearing that beautiful language rolling off their tongue and the vulnerability in that — it makes me very proud," says Rika. "I think about my ...

“It’s one of the great regrets of my life, that I haven’t been able to speak Maori or understand it,” said one resident, Nancy Rogers, 93, who is Pakeha, the widely used Maori word for a ...

In the 1980s, King wrote his groundbreaking study “Being Pakeha,” the first book to examine the non-Maori ingredients of New Zealand society and culture. “Pakeha” is a Maori word for ...

Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen embraced her Maori, Chinese and Pakeha (white New Zealander) heritage through her 2015 play, The Mooncake and the Kumara. Inspired by the story of her grandparents - her ...

As a collective of young Pakeha/Tauiwi we find the recent moves by the government to extinguish Maori customary title to the seabed and foreshore a disgusting display of arrogance. It is ...

Pakeha nearly "exterminated" Maori and need to make good on the intent of the Treaty of Waitangi - including compulsory te reo in all primary schools, philanthropist Gareth Morgan has said ahead ...