Contents

COVER : Zealous Tai Rawhiti paddlers churn the waters of Waitangi with the energy of their haka. Two thousand paddlers from 22 waka yelled and tamped their traditional war dances during the treaty celebrations at Waitangi this year. Photo by Kennedy Warne.
CONTENTS - Features :
YEAR OF THE WAKA [Maori tribes celebrate 1990 by building a fleet of 20 war canoes to escort the Queen to Waitangi]
THE TREATY - WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT [At last! A clear, understandable account of the history and meaning of New Zealand’s most important document, the Treaty of Waitangi]
THE LIVING PAST [Maori art treasure, taonga, are living repositories of the spirit and mana of those who made and used them]
THE UNSEEN WORLD [Life, to the Maori, consists of ‘two waters’ - the physical and the spiritual. To be fully alive you must address both]
ART AND THE SPIRIT [Artmaking and spirituality travel the same pathway and Maori artworks aim to please the soul as well as the eye]
THE POWER OF TE REO [An orator expresses his feelings for his mother tongue, and describes its loss as “a tragedy beyond comprehension”]
THE MAORI LANGUAGE TODAY [Like the Kakapo, the Maori language is threatened with extinction. Can it make a comeback]
THE MEANING OF MANA [Mana makes the Maori world go round. But what is this precious quality and how do you acquire it?]
THE CLUE TO IDENTITY [To Maori people, who you are in inextricably linked to where you cane from - your turangawaewae, your ‘place to stand’]