I spent almost two years in New Zealand/Aotearoa and found some magnificent examples of heritage boat-building among the Indigenous Maori and the settler Pakeha peoples. One of my favourite stories was Ngātokimatawhaorua, a waka (canoe), built in the 1930s. It taught me so much about how heritage boatbuilding can be meaningful to communities, both toContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Ngātokimatawhaorua and the Waitangi Treaty Grounds”
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Review: Fort Edmonton Park’s Indigenous People Experience
By Tom Long, 2022 The Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park is everything I want it to be. More to the point, it is everything that the park’s Indigenous partners want it to be. In November I was lucky enough to visit the IPE on a winter Saturday with my father, brother, and friends.Continue reading “Review: Fort Edmonton Park’s Indigenous People Experience”
