Pakeha Maori of the 19th Century and Today, on Ideas, Radio New Zealand National, 29 April 2012.
This is a really fascinating interview with two different people:
1. Alex Barnes, a Pakeha man who grew up attending Maori schools and being a part of a Maori community. He talks about his family background and childhood perceptions of his Pakeha-ness and the politics of being a speaker of Maori.
2. Angela Wanhalla, a Ngai Tahu researcher who studied interracial unions going as far back as the arrival of the first Pakeha men. She talks about why Pakeha men chose to live within Maori communities and how Maori communities benefitted.
**Historically, Pakeha Maori is a term referring to Pakeha people who chose to live as Maori. It was sometimes used pejoratively. I'm not sure that it's a term used nowadays, although there certainly are Pakeha people who speak Maori.
This is a really fascinating interview with two different people:
1. Alex Barnes, a Pakeha man who grew up attending Maori schools and being a part of a Maori community. He talks about his family background and childhood perceptions of his Pakeha-ness and the politics of being a speaker of Maori.
2. Angela Wanhalla, a Ngai Tahu researcher who studied interracial unions going as far back as the arrival of the first Pakeha men. She talks about why Pakeha men chose to live within Maori communities and how Maori communities benefitted.
**Historically, Pakeha Maori is a term referring to Pakeha people who chose to live as Maori. It was sometimes used pejoratively. I'm not sure that it's a term used nowadays, although there certainly are Pakeha people who speak Maori.