Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 21, 2024 4:18:18 GMT 12
AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM PLANS TO SHIFT FROM ‘COLONIAL MUSEUM’ TO ‘TE TIRITI-LED MUSEUM’
The Auckland War Memorial Museum plans to move from what it describes as a “colonial museum” to “a Te Tiriti-led museum” which will operate as a social impact organisation.
“The first shift sees us move from a colonial Museum to a Te Tiriti-led Museum,” the plan reads. ”This builds upon our bicultural foundation, which in our context recognises Māori as Tangata Whenua. The other strand is Tangata Tiriti – the people of the Treaty – which includes all other cultures and communities that now call Aotearoa New Zealand home by virtue of the Treaty. This approach includes everyone.”….
www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/auckland-war-memorial-museum-plans-to-shift-from-colonial-museum-to-te-tiriti-led-museum/Q5ECTUT33JBQBCBDKG6WNY7Z5I/#:~:text=The%20Auckland%20War%20Memorial%20Museum,as%20a%20social%20impact%20organisation.
HOW WELLINGTON IS GETTING ITS MACRON ON
It has taken just six years but Wellington streets are about to get a macron — to boost māramatanga in Māori as well as English.
The long-running saga has come to light thanks to a paper this week to a Wellington City Council committee about what to name a new Tawa private right-of-way.
The Tawa Community Board had suggested a name in honour of New Zealand cricket great, grandfather of White Ferns Amelia and Jess Kerr, and former Tawa College principal Bruce Murray. But that was complicated by a Bruce Ave existing in Brooklyn and a Murray St in Island Bay.
But the Tawa board had supported the name Te Ara Kōhūhū, after a tree found in the area, and community board chairperson Jill Day confirmed it was expected to get the board’s official endorsement on Monday night……
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350184871/how-wellington-getting-its-macron
The Auckland War Memorial Museum plans to move from what it describes as a “colonial museum” to “a Te Tiriti-led museum” which will operate as a social impact organisation.
“The first shift sees us move from a colonial Museum to a Te Tiriti-led Museum,” the plan reads. ”This builds upon our bicultural foundation, which in our context recognises Māori as Tangata Whenua. The other strand is Tangata Tiriti – the people of the Treaty – which includes all other cultures and communities that now call Aotearoa New Zealand home by virtue of the Treaty. This approach includes everyone.”….
www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/auckland-war-memorial-museum-plans-to-shift-from-colonial-museum-to-te-tiriti-led-museum/Q5ECTUT33JBQBCBDKG6WNY7Z5I/#:~:text=The%20Auckland%20War%20Memorial%20Museum,as%20a%20social%20impact%20organisation.
HOW WELLINGTON IS GETTING ITS MACRON ON
It has taken just six years but Wellington streets are about to get a macron — to boost māramatanga in Māori as well as English.
The long-running saga has come to light thanks to a paper this week to a Wellington City Council committee about what to name a new Tawa private right-of-way.
The Tawa Community Board had suggested a name in honour of New Zealand cricket great, grandfather of White Ferns Amelia and Jess Kerr, and former Tawa College principal Bruce Murray. But that was complicated by a Bruce Ave existing in Brooklyn and a Murray St in Island Bay.
But the Tawa board had supported the name Te Ara Kōhūhū, after a tree found in the area, and community board chairperson Jill Day confirmed it was expected to get the board’s official endorsement on Monday night……
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350184871/how-wellington-getting-its-macron