Nē? A Te Ao Māori Podcast

This week the team chats to artist Hōhepa Thompson aka The Hori about an innovative new AI that will assist media organisations with cultural competency. His name is Auraki — but who will be brave enough to welcome him in? – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transformation or gilding the cage? With the Supreme Court recognising that mana lives on after death in the landmark Peter Ellis appeal, Nē? chats to lawyer and advocate, Kingi Snelgar, about how tikanga does and doesn’t fit into Aotearoa’s legal system. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The kōiwi of 64 Māori and Moriori tūpuna were returned from the Natural History Museum of Vienna this week, many of them stolen from Aotearoa by Austrian grave-robber Andreas Reischek. Nē? talked to two of the team behind Te Papa’s Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme, Te Arikirangi Mamaku-Ironside and Dr. Amber Aranui, about bringing our people home. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ko Mahuru Māori tēnei, nō reira, kua tae te wā! In February, the team set themselves the wero of a fully reo Māori episode come September. Supported by Te Kuru and special guest kaiako Hēmi Kelly, Leonie and Meriana gave it a bloody good go. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Mahuru Māori episode, our hosts drill down into some complex feelings around Te Wiki o Te Reo. Our very special guest is Rāmari Jackson-Paniora, the daughter of activist and pioneer Hana Te Hemara, whose name appears at the top of the landmark petition that started it all. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week performance artist Kura Te Ua (Te Waka Huia, Hawaiki TŪ, Black Grace) takes us on a journey through her vision for haka theatre, growing rangatahi creativity through her programme Autaia, and performing “outside the box”. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's an all wāhine line up, with special guests Ngāhuia Murphy, Ataria Sharman and Qiane Matata-Sipu joining your regular hosts Meriana Johnsen and Leonie Hayden. Together they discuss ikura, the first wāhine, feminine deities and the secrets the colonisers didn't want us to remember. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every few years the topic of cultural appropriation rears its head, usually because Māori have once more had their taonga used and abused. The team chats to artist Jess Thompson Carr aka The Māori Mermaid about some of the worst culprits and how to approach toi Māori with integrity. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke joins Te Kuru to talk about gardening by the maramataka, and how she’s helping her Waikato community reconnect with mātauranga Māori. - Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The team invite astronomer Olive Karena-Lockyer for a round-up of the first Matariki public holiday, and to explore the special connections between the night sky and our taiao. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leading up to Matariki, and the first official public holiday, Nē? chats to aute cloth maker Nikau Hindin about star-map making and the whetū that help us find our way. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With an unprecedented emphasis on mita (regional dialects), the second Disney film in te reo Māori is about to be released: The Lion King. The team catches up with Oscar-nominated producer Chelsea Winstanley on what it’s like for a small, dedicated group of te reo enthusiasts to deal with the world’s largest entertainment conglomerate. Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we kōrero with writers Trinity Thompson-Browne and Qiane Matata-Sipu. How does one stay in control of the narrative from the inception of the idea to finished pukapuka? And how self-publishing enables them to hold rangatiratanga over their work. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kura kaupapa advocate and graduate Te Wehi Wright joins us to discuss the history and success of the movement, and why they're refusing to participate in the government's review of kaupapa Māori education. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we pay tribute to a great man, whose legacy is as strong as he was gentle. We’re joined by Safari Hynes, the young Vic Uni law student proudly carrying on that legacy. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leonie and Meriana have both headed off to full-immersion kura this year. In this episode they get gassed up by Te Kuru and special guest, kaiako Hēmi Kelly. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the end of summer, when musicians all over the motu should be wrapping up their busy touring and festival schedules. After three years of cancellations, we check in with kaiwaiata Anna Coddington and Te Kahureremoa Taumata about what the hustle looks like in 2022. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re marking the 40th anniversary of te reo news bulletin Te Karere by getting into the weeds of where Māori media is headed. Leonie and Te Kuru are joined by media legends Mihingarangi Forbes and Peter-Lucas Jones. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Māori we talk a lot about our connection to whenua, but most of us live away from our ancestral lands. We talk to Joe Pihema and Karen Leef about what “going home” means to them, the history of our urban communities and how to be good manuhiri on someone else’s land. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the lead up to Waitangi Day, we’re talking about the other side of the Treaty partnership. You know… the non-Māori one. We chat to filmmaker Julie Zhu about the group Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga, and producer Lillian Hanly about growing up Pākehā in te ao Māori, and what being Tangata Tiriti means to them. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the festive season, and we’re celebrating hākari: upholding our mana and the mana of guests through the sharing of food. This week’s manuhiri may have cooked for Harry and Meghan, but at home on the marae the aunties are still in charge – we’re joined by chefs, cookbook authors, Masterchef winners and proud daughters of Maketu, Kasey and Kārena Bird. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our hosts reveal their favourite Māori authors, and conceive a brand new book club. Te Kuru chats to Pānia Papa about the mammoth task of translating 100 pukapuka into te reo Māori. – Books mentioned in this epsiode: Ngā Waituhi o Rēhua by Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira Makorea by Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti The Bone People by Keri Hulme Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera Āue by Becky Manawatu Behind the Tattoed Face by Heretaunga Pat Baker Dedications by JC Sturm Te Ao Hou – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As it gets warmer, both the season and the climate, we talk about all the ways the moana sustains us – from kaimoana to surfing to our spiritual needs. This week’s manuhiri is longboard champion and kaitiaki moana, Raniera Proctor. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first episode, the Nē? team talk about their different paths to te reo Māori and some of the recent conversation around who should have access to it. They’re joined by crack-up content creator and kaiako reo Jordyn Rapana aka Jordyn with a Why. – Hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara), Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and Meriana Johnsen (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) Produced by Te Aihe Butler (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) Artwork by Xoë Hall (Kāi Tahu) Music by Te Aihe Butler and Maaka Pohatu (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) – Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices