Te Ao Maori
Why the Waitangi Tribunal can't win the fight over the Māori Health Authority
What is the point of the Waitangi Tribunal if it doesn't have the power to stop a government that appears to be acting against the interests of Māori? Audio
Māori advocate on government move to ban gang patches
A Maori advocate is accusing the government of creating an excuse to criminalise Māori with its new laws banning gang patches.
Legislation to be introduced this week will also give police powers to… Audio
Initiative to boost Māori health workforce transforming lives
An initiative to help Māori into the health workforce is being credited with almost doubling the proportion of tangata whenua employed at the Taranaki District Health Board while at the same time… Audio
A week long wananga about opera
In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrace one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Audio
A week long wananga about opera
In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrac one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Audio
Tai Rāwhiti hui on challenges facing the region post Cyclone Gabrielle
A group of senior government ministers will meet Tai Rāwhiti iwi, business, council and community leaders this morning in a summit to break down the challenges facing the region.
More than 100 people… Audio
Approval granted for Te Atatū marae
It's taken more than fifty years to get off the ground, but approval's finally been granted for a community marae to be built on Auckland's Te Atatū peninsula.
The plot of land beside the… Audio
Tapu sperm whale bones stolen from Sth Taranaki shed
Locals are heartbroken and angry after the theives stole sacred items from Otakeho in Taranaki. Tapu Sperm whale bones and teeth were stolen this month from a shed that belongs to the Ngati Haua hapu… Audio
Te Reo full-immersion course interest soars despite govt cuts
Demand for intensive week-long full immersion Reo courses has soared, with a record number held in the last year.
Thousands of students attend these Kura Reo, but as the Government cuts budgets and… Audio
Recovering lost taonga after 200 years
Deidre Brown, a professor at Auckland University's School of architecture, went on an 8 year hunt for the lost whakairo rakau. The missing whakairo rakau were first acquired by the Christchurch… Audio
Dallas King and the story of the Omanaia River.
This week on Mapuna we speak with Ngati Hau, Ngati Kaharau kaikorero Dallas King of Omanaia. She discusses the story of the Omanaia River, a story that she presented at the commemorations at Mangungu… Audio
Not pie in the sky: Tanemahuta Gray
The epic Te Arawa legend of Hatupatu and the bird woman Kurungaituku is centre stage at the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Audio
Emails reveal concerns within Waka Kotahi about name change
The agency's head ordered the only line about a partnership with Māori removed from a message about relegating the name.
NZTA Waka Kotahi struggling with name change
Emails show the chief executive of the Transport Agency ordered the only line about a partnership with Maori removed from a press release about relegating the name 'Waka Kotahi' to second place. This… Audio
Maureen Lander: weaving with string games and Te Rā our oldest sail
This weekend at Auckland Museum there is a rare overnight wananga to share matauranga Māori knowledge around an extraordinary object: Te Rā, the only customary Maori sail in existence. It has returned… Audio
Do New Zealanders really want a Treaty referendum?
For over thirty years Rangahau Aotearoa Research New Zealand has helped dozens of government and not-for-profit organisations understand what Aotearoans are thinking across a range of social issues… Audio
The crowds, politics and culture of Waitangi Day
Mapuna takes a look back at this year's Waitangi Day commemorations as tens of thousands of people packed into the treaty grounds. Julian Wilcox and the rest of the RNZ team were there every step of… Audio
Watch: 'When you're Māori, your mountain is your ancestor' - Tearjerking trailer for Kiwi film
Three Kiwi kids, a majestic maunga and an epic quest - the full-length trailer of new movie The Mountain released on Thursday promises laughter, tears and a shedload of New Zealand scenery along with… Video
Second election would've been needed - Luxon
The Prime Minister says a second election would've been needed if he didn't agree to support ACT's Treaty Principles Bill to Select Committee. That's where National and New Zealand First's support… Audio
Climate activist wins right to sue large emitters
Iwi leader Mike Smith has won the right to sue seven big emitters for their role in causing climate change, in a Supreme Court ruling delivered Wednesday morning.
The climate activist, of Ngāpuhi and… Audio