Minorities in Medicine: Why Otago University’s proposed cap on medicine will break, not make, the future of our health workforce
About two months ago, Critic published a story titled ‘A Seat at Our Table’ which shared the experiences of Māori students here at Otago University and the stigma surrounding alternative entry pathways. While the article and interviewees were met with plenty of support, there was no shortage of naive and insensitive questions and comments. The aim of the first article was to shed a light on the inequity, racism and scrutiny that...
Post-Colonial Faith
“Māori theology is spiritual, but it’s also political.”
Māori religion and theology has a long and complex history in Aotearoa New Zealand. Importantly, conversion of Māori to Christianity during the 1830s benefitted increasing Crown interest in land speculation: missionaries of the period were able to buy over 63 thousand acres of land. However, Christianity also brought literacy, as the Bible was translated...
Learning Te Reo Māori as a Māori Student
Te reo Māori is an official language of Aotearoa, but has only been recognised as such since 1987. For Māori, their language has always been the ‘official’ one.
For Māori in the early 1900s, most notably before the World Wars, te reo was their first language. However the effects of colonisation, such as urban drift and discriminatory school restrictions such as harsh punishment for speaking te reo Māori,...
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