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There are multiple Government funded initiatives aimed at addressing Māori language decline, including increasing the amount of Māori Language spoken, maintenance and quality. Te Puni Kokiri (2006 Health of the Māori Language Report) touched on the attitudes of wider New Zealand society towards the Māori language as unengaging and unlikely to change in the immediate future (p.7). Te Kura Roa-Waiaro proposes to examine the attitude of Government (National and Local) policy in an attempt to gauge how responsive the state (NZ) is to the Māori language. From this study this project will ascertain what interventions can be developed to improve the Māori language. It will look at attitudes of managers and their staff in an attempt to understand what the impact the language has on the entity and its employees. From the data collected this project will highlight if the value that is attributed to the language impacts on societal attitudes. It is hoped that with an understanding of the value placed on the language by the State, attitudes can be changed to reverse language shift that not only embraces language as a mode of communication but as a vehicle for expressing our diverse epistemologies and worldview.

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    E hoa, e hoariri rānei? How will Corbicula Fluminea affect Te Mauri o Waiwaiā?

    Last year a new species of fresh water golden clam was discovered in the Waikato awa. This invasive species invoked ngā kaitiaki o Waipā, whānau, hapū and iwi to mobilise, to understand and learn about the golden clam.

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    Lake Rotoitipaku - the Mauri Model

    The Ngāti Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau iwi places great significance on Te Kete Poutama, an area that encompasses Lake Rotoitipaku near Kawerau, because it has been integral to their economic, cultural, spiritual and social wellbeing for generations.

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    People's Media Venezuela

    Over the last decade, Indigenous peoples and new social movements have produced the most profound and democratic transformation in the history of Latin America - the southern part of what Indigenous peoples call Abya Yala (the Americas). Some describe this moment as potentially post-capitalist and others as decolonial, suggesting the ways these changes challenge colonialism.

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    Tetrodotoxin in Kaimoana

    The Hauraki Māori Trust Board and the Cawthron Institute are collaborating in this research project which stems from a spate of dog deaths on the beaches of Tīkapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) in August 2009. The dogs died from the poison tetrodotoxin (TTX) and this poison was present in sea slugs that had washed up on beaches.

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    Whare Uku: Sustainable fibre housing

    This research project developed from a need to solve a problem for Māori: to find a more cost-efficient, sustainable building technology than timber for papakāinga housing.

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    Ahuriri

    The Ahuriri or Napier Estuary is of significant value to both tangata whenua and the Hawke’s Bay community as a whole. Historical and current environmental pressures, together with some questionable management processes over the years, had caused an almost total cultural disconnection between the tangata whenua and the estuary.

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    AlterNative Profile

    AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scholarly journal. It presents indigenous worldviews from native indigenous perspectives. The journal spans themes of origins, place, peoples, community, culture, traditional and oral history, heritage, colonialism, power, intervention, development and self-determination.

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