Native Resistance, organized by Byron Rangiwai (PhD candidate, Te Ara Poutama, AUT University) moves through different phases and types of Māori and ‘Native’ resistance: from nineteenth century Māori prophetic movements, to the issues and politics of Māori language and culture, to activism and challenges to sovereignty, and the politics of resistance embedded in Indigenous struggles for self-determination.

Byron Rangiwai: Nineteenth century prophetic resistance: The case of Te Kooti and the ‘Waiohau Fraud’
Dr Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta: Challenging Sovereignty
Professor Tania Ka’ai: Te Mana o te Tangata Whenua: Indigenous Assertions of Sovereignty
Nomana Anaru, Revealing and critically analysing the ongoing perils of colonialism and its negative impacts relating to Māori language and cultural retention