The only Pākehā on Te Wānanga o Aotearoa course thinks it's time to ask 'who we are and what we stand for'
He was the only Pāhekā on the course, yet he's no stranger to that feeling. He grew up in Tauranga, where his parents decided to send Barnes and his twin brother to Kōhanga Reo. Barnes went on to a Kura Kaupapa before attending a bi-lingual unit at a Pākehā college. JOSEPH JOHNSON/STUFF People on the streets of Christchurch share what they know - and in some cases, what they don't - about Matariki. “It was a bit of an experiment in some ways. My father was a hippie and rebelling in some ways against his own Pākehā culture, so he wanted us to grow up in something different.”
Source: stuff.co.nz