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Esteemed kaumātua and ‘Coaster’ Paul Madgwick guides the reader through early #Poutini mythology, the discovery of #pounamu, the story of settlement, battles between iwi, life in the pā and contact with Europeans.

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May 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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What didn't happen was pressure from Simeon to drop Ngaitahu representation on ECan being adopted by the ECan board.

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August 30, 2024 at 7:32 AM
thefamilyarchives.bsky.social
My mini-review of this really wonderful book: It's a must-read if your ancestors, like mine, descend from a pivotal union between a Ngāi Tahu Māori woman, and one of the male colonial settlers who arrived as whalers in the mid-1800s. #nz #familyhistory #genealogy #ngaitahu buff.ly/Kd2DixJ
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#takahēmagazine #decemberissue #sharonmurdoch #gregjackson #politicalcartoon #māoriartist #ngāitahu #kāitahu #toitūtetiriti
December 15, 2024 at 4:30 AM
dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social
Macabre!! #PeterJackson, #NgāiTahu, #CanterburyMuseum, & US biotech co #ColossalBiosciences plan to extract DNA from Moa remains to recreate the towering flightless bird. Extracted DNA has to go somewhere. What bird will be a test subject? Whose eggs will injected DNA go into?
Creepy AF.
#nzpol
July 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
thefamilyarchives.bsky.social
Kia ora, here in #Aotearoa #NZ we are celebrating 50 years of #Māori Language Week. Pictured is my 3x great-grandmother Emma Simôn and her husband John. Born in 1853 to her #NgāiTahu mother Tukuwaha, and whaler father William Thomas, she spoke Te Reo Māori and English fluently and was a translator.
Photo credit Te Hikoi Museum
September 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Ooooh, this looks to be fascinating, and is affordable too - Ōtautahi peeps, let's go!

(And for everyone - there's an at-home option available too :))

#history #Māori #NgāiTahu

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Atholl Anderson: The Welcome Of Strangers
Distinguished archaeologist Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu) introduces a new edition of his groundbreaking 1988 book The Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Māori to a new generation of readers, w...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
thefamilyarchives.bsky.social
Had such an enjoyable time at the Māori Interest Group research afternoon yesterday at NZSG! Chatted to the group about what I do at The Family Archives and shared some stories and items from my own whānau. #genealogy #archives #familyhistory #whakapapa #nz #ngaitahu
September 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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This ANZAC day I'm reflecting on ancestral connections and 'Familiar Faces' at Gallipoli. Please take a moment to read my blog about it linked below. #nz #aotearoa #WWI #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry #ngaitahu #whakapapa

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A vintage studio photograph of four New Zealand soldiers from the Otago Mounted Rifles in their uniform. At the back on the left is Alfred Rupert Nonnet Simôn (2x great granduncle, paternal great-grandfather’s side), at the back on the right is Joseph ‘Murdoch’ Mackintosh (2x great granduncle, paternal great-grandmother’s side. The two seated at the front are thus far unidentified, but I intend to find out who they are.
April 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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This year would not be possible without our sponsors & partners - without them we wouldn't be able to present to you the fantastic talents that are not too far away. A massive thank you and a shout out to our Funders!
List of six funders. NZCT, Ngāitahu fund, The Lion Foundation, Grassroots, Lottery Grants Board, Aotearoa Gaming Trust.
March 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
thefamilyarchives.bsky.social
In Aotearoa it is Māori language week. Sharing this whakataukī that informs my work as a family historian. I try to honour my tūpuna. These wāhine navigated the challenges of colonisation in te reo Māori (their mothers' language) and in English (their fathers). #familyhistory #whakapapa #ngaitahu
Poster for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) 14–20 September 2026 with the whakataukī (proverb) “Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua,” which translates loosely to 'I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past'. A note saying this whakataukī inspires the Zoe's work, and is a way of honoring her ancestors. Includes two framed ancestor portraits, and a 'The Family Archives' logo.
September 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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How healthy is Otago's Waikouaiti River? #WaiOra2018 #communityscience #colab @NgaiTahu @gebrownstein @LCR_NZ @otago @CUBiosciences
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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Honoured to join #WaiOra2019! Fantastic to be part of an enthusiastic team committed to improving the health of #mahingakai in Otago's Waikouaiti River. @CUBiosciences @CUWaterResearch @mwlr_nz @otago @NgaiTahu
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 AM
thefamilyarchives.bsky.social
If it's "essential reading for the descendants of Tahu Pōtiki" then it's going on my reading list! Shall I get in the long library hold request queue, go in and read it at the special collections room, or buy my own copy 🤔 #whakapapa #ngaitahu #familyhistory #ancestors
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September 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Santana Minerals’ chair is under fire after local reporting linked him to climate-denial LinkedIn posts — and a separate Ngāi Tahu dispute has made the trust problem worse. #PeterCook #SantanaMinerals #NgaiTahu
Peter Cook’s Climate Denial Posts Deepen Trust Row: Santana Chairman Comments
Santana chairman comments have widened a trust dispute around the company’s proposed Central Otago mine after local reporting in January attributed climate-sceptic and culture-war posts on LinkedIn to board chair Peter Cook. Santana Minerals lists Cook as its non-executive chairman on its governance page, a role he has held since October 2023, while Otago Daily Times and Crux reported public posts in which he dismissed mainstream climate science and mocked opponents.
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May 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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#Indigenous #ANZAC #ThisIsOurDayToo #NZ #NgāiTahu
dimsie.bsky.social Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · Apr 25
My usual Anzac Day post. George was Ngāi Tahu.
My great-grandfather, George "Sonny" Skerrett, Gallipoli survivor, interviewed for the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1992: "Ashore, it was frightful. Terrible.... The Turks applied for the armistice to bury the dead. I went out with four doctors, couldn't do much for them, just bandage them. There were 4000 Turks buried that day, I never saw anything like it in all my life. I cried all day, all afternoon, I couldn't stop. Six of my mates, we did everything together, swum and played tennis, they were all out there dead. I looked for them but never found them. Some of the bodies had been lying out there for over a month, and they just fell to pieces in the 100 degree heat.... We were shelled continuously, shrapnel shells falling on both sides. Why I never got hit I'll never know. I still remember the beach. There were a couple of thousand men lying there in all shapes and sizes and forms, all wounded and sick.... We could only treat a certain number of them. The badly wounded, they'd say, you go and find someone else to look after, and they just lay there and died.... I still think about Gallipoli quite a bit. It accomplished nothing.... War's terrible, everybody loses. The only ones who win are the people who make the bombs and shells and the bullets."
April 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM