"For Māori people, ever since the first prison — a little raupō hut — was built in the north, our people have seen prisons as antithetical to everything that is consistent with tikanga and with our history. And as that little raupō hut expanded into the prison-building industry that we have today, that Māori view of imprisonment has merged into a clear analysis of the criminal justice system being racist" - Moana Jackson

Why did Māori never have prisons? #ETangata

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/why-did-maori-never-have-prisons/

"While we’re still fighting to restore our language and keep it alive, we need every reminder that we can muster to ensure that all those living in Aotearoa know that te reo Māori remains the language of this country. "

Did Chris Luxon tell me, or the bowling club, his real feelings about te reo? #eTangata

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/did-chris-luxon-tell-me-or-the-bowling-club-his-real-feelings-about-te-reo/

This a a moving piece

"four women recall their involvement in the protest on the land"

Remembering Bastion Point #eTangata

https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/remembering-bastion-point/

It's a conundrum! Is there such a thing as Māori Science https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/is-there-such-thing-as-maori-science-it-depends/ #ETangata #Mātauranga

"If the Treaty had been honoured, there would have been no Land Wars, with their resulting casualties, in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Perhaps more importantly, the Māori economic development would have continued, and the prosperity that was clearly evident in the 1840s and 1850s would have advanced as the rest of the economy moved forward."

#aotearoa #TeTiriti #etangata

https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/what-if-the-treaty-had-been-honoured/

#ETangata Luke was at OT when the Hawke's Bay uplift took place. Since then "there’ve been 6 diff reviews into Oranga Tamariki. I’ve read all of them a few times now... We’re in a weird moment where the Crown has started to talk abt #colonisation all the time, but never actually talks abt #decolonisation... we need to be careful we don’t interpret [that] as a commitment to doing things differently... They’re owning up to it but often carrying on same behaviours" #Aotearoa https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/calling-for-fundamental-change/

#ETangata Margaret Mutu - "He Whakaputanga 1835 is a declaration of sovereignty that says all power & authority rests with rangatira. It affirms they would never, ever devolve that power, authority & mana to anybody else... What Te Tiriti o Waitangi then guaranteed in 1840 was that subjects of Queen of E could emigrate here... come & reside in this country, but it👏🏼was👏🏼conditional... that the British stop their lawlessness & live under the concept of kāwanatanga" #Aotearoa https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/margaret-mutu-why-we-need-constitutional-transformation/

"Māori advances are labelled as 'privileging Māori' and 'giving Māori special advantages' and so on, when in fact they are just efforts to catch up. To address the wrongs that have been there for over a century."

https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/moana-jackson-im-absolutely-sure-transformation-is-coming/

#AotearoaPolitics #ETangata

@lonechild @tanya

Sounds awesome. I think for better screenreader accessibility, maybe use #ETangata

https://accessible360.com/accessible360-blog/2021-09-08-making-social-media-content-accessible/

@tanya @oventi #AotearoaPolitics #Etangata will definitely = some of my fave hashtags. Can't wait 🖤🤍❤️

@lonechild @oventi and #Etangata too. i miss our Sunday mornings on Twit, collectively absorbing those stunning articles. be really cool to be able to find them all under a hashtag here!

#ETangata Auē. I remember this case from the news in 2018. An appeal hearing was held in Wellington recently & this #Etangata piece is a gutpunch description of systemic failure & the boy who's paying the price. "HH was 14 when he was sentenced to life for murder. He has foetal alcohol syndrome and can’t read or write. Was he fit to stand trial?" https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/14-years-and-33-seconds/

#Etangata A vital Sunday morning read. "Our Crown agencies are now interested in the role that Te Tiriti and mātauranga Māori have to play in responding to extremism. But I’ve not yet heard any agency be brave enough to say they want to understand and respond better to colonialism" - @tinangata Tina has shared her presentation from the 'Countering violent extremism & terrorism' #ChchTerrorAttack Hui last week #Aotearoa #Colonisation #Antiracism #ChchTerrorAttack #NZTwits https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/tina-ngata-to-tackle-terrorism-start-with-colonialism

#Etangata #Aotearoa #NZTwits The myth of sovereignty. "Sthg we don’t talk about much in mainstream public law circles is the basis of Crown’s claim to sovereignty in this country. Perhaps... bc we have 'political reality' which simply operates as if there is full & indivisable sovereignty over these islands that we now all call home. But it’s a reality built on myth & assumption, not. on. the. rule. of. law." - Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi, Tainui) https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/claire-charters-the-myth-of-sovereignty/

#Etangata Always a vital Sunday morning read. #NZTwits #Antiracism #Aotearoa 'Unconscious bias training' does👏🏼not👏🏼work👏🏼. "What we want is for the police, not individuals, to take responsibility, so that there’s systemic shifts and systemic change... This whole research prog is built on difficult conversations with the police themselves... I’m optimistic. I think this is the 1st time a govt agency has had the guts to take a close look at itself in this way" Tā Kim Workman https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/kim-workman-difficult-conversations-and-the-path-to-fair-and-equitable-policing