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Qiane Matata-Sipu

Interviews with kickass Indigenous women doing things differently! I invite you to look at the world through a different lens, a personal lens, a cultural lens, a lens made by and made for u...

Episodes

20 of 101 episodes

NUKU Tōku Reo // WHA

In this episode we catch up with Tiffany Witehira and Aroha Harris. We talk about the challenges of language learning, the realities of jugg...

00:50:53Nov 5, 2022

NUKU Tōku Reo // TORU

In this episode we catch up with Chelsea Winstanley and Leonie Kapea Hayden to discuss our rūmaki reo journey, safe reo speaking places, anx...

00:49:35Nov 5, 2022

NUKU Tōku Reo // RUA

In episode two we speak to filmmaker Chelsea Winstanley and Journalist Leonie Hayden about language learning feeling like we're all in kohan...

01:01:56Apr 17, 2022

NUKU Tōku Reo // TAHI

We speak with Māori Midwife Camille Harris and fragrance developer Tiffany Witehira who are both at the beginning of their year-long total i...

01:07:35Mar 21, 2022

//100 Karen Matata

Kia ora e te whānau. Today is a very special day, we celebrate NUKU //100! Through this series we have met and interviewed wāhine right acro...

01:31:12Dec 7, 2021

//099 Dr Acushla Dee Sciascia

Meet NUKU //099 Dr Acushla Dee Sciascia ( Ngāruahine Rangi, Ngāti Ruanui, Te Ātiawa) This incredible wahine is a business woman representing...

01:10:00Nov 29, 2021

//098 Kurahapainga Te Ua

Kurahapainga ( Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is the founder and artistic direct...

01:16:58Nov 23, 2021

//097 Te Raina Atareta Ferris

Te Raina ( Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu, Italy) runs education programmes about Māori culture from her whare wānang...

01:18:25Nov 15, 2021

//095 Geneva Harrison + //096 Mihi Tibble

We have a special double episode for you. NUKU 095 and 096 are Geneva Harrison ( Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri) and Mihi Tibble ( Ngāti...

01:32:58Nov 9, 2021

//094 Dame Hinewehi Mohi

Dame Hinewehi Mohi ( Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tūhoe) has been iconic in the development of puoro Māori for the past 30 years. In 1999, she rele...

01:11:31Nov 8, 2021

//093 Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne (Ngāpuhi) is a mentor and trustee with Auckland Teaching Gardens Trust. She supports the community with garden plots, gardening cours...

01:06:40Nov 2, 2021

//092 Andria Dafne Pablo Sanchez, Vee'us Xiuh Janiki Yollotlpactli

Xiuh, as she likes to go by is of Mexican heritage (Mestiza, Nahua (Mexico)). For years she has worked to revitalise ancient Indigenous prac...

00:58:25Nov 1, 2021

//091 Erin Matariki Carr

Matariki, as she prefers to go by ( Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe) is the Co-Lead for RIVER (Revitalising Indigenous Values for Earth’s Regeneration...

01:09:09Oct 26, 2021

//090 Charmeyne Te Nana-Williams

Charmeyne Te Nana-Williams ( Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Toa) is the CEO of What Ever It Takes, an...

01:02:19Oct 25, 2021

//089 Irihapeti Edwards

NUKU 089 is Irihapeti Edwards (Ngāti Manawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara, Te Arawa). This incredible young wo...

00:50:55Oct 12, 2021

//088 Tania Page

Tania Page ( Ngāti Kahu, Ngāi Tahu) is a journalist currently working with TVNZ’s flagship current affairs show, Sunday . Earlier in her car...

01:02:28Oct 5, 2021

//087 Puawai Cairns

NUKU 087 is Puawai Cairns of Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga whakapapa. Puawai has held a number of roles across her time at...

01:12:33Sep 28, 2021

//086 Julia Arnott-Neenee

Julia Arnott-Neenee ( Sāmoan, Chinese, British) is the co-founder and director of PeopleForPeople, a youth-led social enterprise on a missio...

00:58:34Sep 21, 2021

//085 Mary Brown

NUKU 085 is Mary Brown ( Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whātua). Mary is a full-time, stay-at-home māmā of 10 tamariki, all under 15 years old. She is al...

01:03:23Sep 7, 2021

//083 Melony Paikea-Tautalanoa and //084 Manawawharepu Udy

We’ve got a double episode for your today with Melony Paikea-Tautalanoa ( Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Arawa) and Manawawharepu Udy ( Te...

01:18:20Aug 31, 2021