Former Southland Maori community health worker, now based in the Netherlands, Moana van Hijum, gave an inspiring talk entitled Nursing in an aid environment, drawing particularly on her experiences nursing in South Sudan with the aid organisation Medair. 'To perform at your best, you must first...
('pounamu' is the Maori word for jade or greenstone), basalt weapon (eg patu), wooden weapon (eg taiaha), bone weapon (eg whalebone taiaha), cache of edible fern-root, kahukiwi (kiwi-feather cloak) bird- snaring tools, huia feathers (treasured and rare, used for headdresses), raw...
"The best protest we can make right now is being Maori. Be who we are. Live our values. Speak our reo," he told them, using the Maori word for language. "Just be Maori. Be Maori all day, every day. We are here. We are strong."...
50 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her ido...
15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. A Lamp on a Stand 16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, ...
There was also in the air, Faber says, a sense that perhaps the LEGO brick wasn't as untouchable as once perceived, and an accompanying desire to get LEGO bricks into school yards. That led to a slew of new initiatives, some of which set the groundwork for LEGO BIONICLE. Released in ...
The Word Witch at Work in New Zealand'sSchool Journal, 1960s–1980s: Margaret Mahy's Writing as a Reflection of Pedagogy and the Spirit of the Times Between 1961 and 1984 the renowned New Zealand writer, Margaret Mahy, wrote over seventy-five pieces for the "School Journal" (a graded re...
The program of science is to formulate theories that explain observed natural phenomena. In this effort, we don’t need to use the terms ‘truth’ or ‘absolute reality’ because we only look for agreement with observations. As was said above, the word...
back, too surprised to speak. I had a momentary notion that the blow started out as a friendly slap on the back, but somewhere in the air between us the open palm changed into a fist. Neither of us knew why; nor did we say a word. Teddy left the dance, and I never saw him ...
These decisions have triggered a sharp backlash in the white community, which is known by the Maori word Pakeha for Europeans. There has been considerable fear that New Zealand’s Labor Party government would compromise Pakeha property rights and return private property to the Maori. ...