On The Up: East Coast wāhine Tui Milner prepares for World Championship in Massage
East Coast-based rongoā Māori Tui Milner believes putting mirimiri on the world stage is about showing unity and mana ...
New Frontier On The Horizon For The New Zealand Māori Arts And Crafts Institute
Marsters knows the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute well, having been a tauira (student) himself in the 37th ...
Flower of Scotland grows in Dunedin
The imposing cathedral stands at the top of a flight of 38 Takaka marble steps. The nave features gothic pillars, 20m-high ...
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Putting Indigenous place names on the map: Apple update to help preserve culture
Traditional Aboriginal place names will be put on the map for millions of smartphone users worldwide after a four-year ...
Live from Polyfest
Polyfest started 50 years ago, with only four schools participating. It has since grown to be the largest Maori and Pacific Islands festival of its kind in the world, show-casing traditional music, ...
'Genius of our ancestors': Native American artist creates using traditional techniques
Fern Cloud has been a hide artist for three decades, and teaches classes throughout the state in an effort to keep her ...
Maui-born Maoli merges Nashville country music with rural Pacific traditions
Prior to playing Nashville's Cannery Hall, Maui-born Maoli highlighted why his Pacific Islands sound intersects with ...
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Art and Design
By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...
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Out of Time
“The church wants to convert the Indians to Christianity, destroying their traditional ways of life ... d told him I could do a haka, a fierce Maori war dance like the one made famous by ...