‘Not like the rest of New Zealand’: reviving ta rē Moriori on Rēkohu

‘Not like the rest of New Zealand’: reviving ta rē Moriori on Rēkohu

In this edited excerpt from Pātaka Kai: Kai Sovereignty, Māui Solomon (Moriori, Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) – an internationally acclaimed Indigenous rights activist and barrister – and his wife Susan Thorpe (Pākehā) share what they are doing to revive ta rē Moriori on Rēkohu. Rēkohu and Rangihaute are the Indigenous names for the two largest islands in the Chatham archipelago, which is situated 800km east of Te Waipounamu and Te Ika-a-Māui. It is the hom…