Hawaii
Freedom Vibes ✨
Finding Strength & Humor in the Fight for Our Freedoms. What Happens When Retirees & Families Take to the Streets? Seriously, I’ve never seen so many clever placards in my life!
Kingi Gilbert
Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Whakaue. Producer. Lived in UK, Spain, Hawaii and Aotearoa. Married & father of two.
Hawaii
Wehena Makahiki
The beautiful Makahiki celebration was this week. It's all about the start of the Makahiki season, harvest, peace, and games. Check out the interview with Pūlama Collier from King Kekaulike High School, she breaks down what it is all about.
Rangahau
Overlaps: Karl Marx & Edward Gibbon Wakefield
This short article looks at the life and efforts of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and asks if Karl Marx might have been influenced by his theories on systematic colonisation. Research for this was article was completed via Wikipedia. An AI tool called Merlin was used to summarise the articles.
Māhina
Whiro
No stress, relax on the new moon whiro. Traditional Māori knowledge records this day as a phase dedicated to the atua Whiro, who is often associated with misfortune, pests and disease.
Put a Spring In Your Step
Today we're looking at the coming spring season as winter fades into memory and we anticipate release from lockdown. But due to the pandemic, it's not all plush roses with worries around rising case numbers and vaccination levels.
Weird & Wonderful Episode 2
⚡️Episode 2 of Weird & Wonderful: Spring, Hacking & Trolling, Equinox, Maramataka.
Turou Hawaiki - Celebrating Equinox Around the World
No matter where you live on earth, this is the period where the length of the day and night is similar, in latin called the 'equinox'. People all over earth celebrate this special day, check out some cool posts and research.
Aotearoa
Weird & Wonderful Episode 1
Here's our first episode of weird and wonderful this week in Aotearoa. Mammoths, Aquaman 2, Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and RayBan + Facebook. Check out the moons until Monday.
Māori Language Growth (Part 1)
Have we seen growth in adoption of Te Reo Māori in Aotearoa? What do the internet search traffic statistics show us? Check out our presentation
Māori Moon, Tamatea. Find out more about spring
Maramataka Māori moon report for Tamatea around the early-mid spring time. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, our tūpuna (ancestors) recorded the names the moons and observed trends with nature associated with those moons. Here are some links to resources:
Statistics on Māori & Pacific Vaccination Rates, Sep 2021
How many Māori and Pacific people have been vaccinated in New Zealand? Using official numbers from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Statistics, the Native Zone team refactors the visual presentation to (hopefully) make it a bit easier to understand.
Māhina
Moon of Ōuenuku
Maramataka Māori moon report for Ōuenuku. Early waxing building phase, 12% illumination. This can be a primo day and night - building energy, ideal for laying down seedling beds, planting and fishing.