In case you missed it, there has been a great series of pieces by Māori writers on the Guardian website:
- Tina Ngata ‘We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with Māori at the heart’
- Morgan Godfery ‘Forget anti-racism. This Waitangi Day demand our land back.’
- Emma Espiner ‘The Treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude Māori women – we must right that wrong’
- Miriama Aoke ‘Jacinda Ardern is right, Waitangi Day is imperfect. But the flaws are intentional’
I would also recommend a typically informative and insightful post by Leonie Hayden, which concisely covers a lot of very important ground: ‘Hold us to account’: has Jacinda Ardern honoured her 2018 Waitangi pledges?
And RNZ’s Katie Doyle has an item entitled ‘What will Aotearoa look like on Te Tiriti o Waitangi’s 200th anniversary?’ in which a group of young New Zealanders share their hopes for 2040.
If, after those excellent pieces, you are still looking for more Waitangi Day-related reading, you might be interested in a couple of things I wrote recently:
- ‘Can Te Tiriti help solve our big problems?’ (in which I suggest we ought to develop Te Tiriti-based responses to urgent public policy challenges)
- ‘What is the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process?’ (a brief explanation of the settlement process that I wrote for The Project for Public Interest Media).
Ahi-kā-roa 