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For those people on the journey of reconnecting with their Māori roots, a big part of that process is healing parts of us that don't feel 'enough'. For this episode, Myjanne speaks to Erica McCreedy, a wāhine Māori living in Australia who created her own podcast, 'Healing our Identity', on this very topic. The episode then finishes with a conversation with Australian-Māori Dr Melissa Carey who talked about her own healing journey through her autoethnographic PhD, 'A transformative journey of cultural recovery, Te Ao Maori'.
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As part of Myjanne's exploration into the topic of Māori identity and indigeneity more broadly, Myjanne says she came across a phenomenon called 'pretendians' (Pretend Indians). According to Anishnaabe man and native filmmaker Drew Hayden Taylor, the past decade in Canada has seen a flood of...
Published 07/27/23
What's it like to identify as Māori when you also identify with another ethnicity? For this episode Myjanne speaks to Māori academic Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell who did her PhD on that very topic. Myjanne also speaks to her dear friend, Mikkeline Olsen, about her experience very similar experience of...
Published 07/24/23