The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand has opened 2020 with the release of a special issue on subjects of immense importance to Māori and to Aotearoa New Zealand.
He Āpiti Supplement: Ngā Ahua o te Ao Hurihuri - Rethinking our shared futures delivers a powerful collection of writing from some leading Māori and Pākehā researchers and academics.
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga authors include: Melinda Webber, Moana Theodore, Margaret Mutu, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Angus Macfarlane, Sonja Macfarlane, Suzanne Pitama, Katharina Ruckstuhl, Jarrod Haar, Maui Hudson, Maria Amoamo, Jordan Waiti, Cameron Lacy, Tania Huria, Diane Ruwhiu, Carla Houkamau, Amanda Black and many others. NPM's congratulations go to all the author teams.
Link to the online articles here https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tnzr20/current
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