Saia

Mother | Historian | 🇹🇴🇳🇿|

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

@hereliessian Lol yes and 'kaimahi' would always make me Crack up

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

@SikotiHamiltonR Enjoying your commentary from the Kingdom 🇹🇴♥️

[E-Tangata @etangata]

“We start losing our loved ones earlier than our tangata Tiriti peers. We go to more tangi. We are less likely to experience being the ‘sandwich generation’ who raise their own children and moko while also caring for elderly parents.” — Tui MacDonald

https://t.co/rKo0h4OqJ8

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

@spyccmusic My 8 year old thinks it's 'korero'

[Anaseini U @fineutuvai25]

Women’s History Month - In the 1950s, every Tongan woman registered with Langafonua contributed one pound, raising a total of 2000 pounds to purchase what is now known as Langafonua 'a e Fefine Tonga. Residence was formerly owned by the Cocker Family.

[The Coconet @TheCoconetTV]

For 45 years, Grey Lynn's last Tongan family has hosted their fofo'anga faikava kalapu at home.

We join the Koloamatangi family as they open their home each week to drink kava, sing songs, and share history 🥥

https://t.co/utmV705Fpc

[. @StephenClarkeNZ]

50 years ago today reaction to the first commemoration of 'New Zealand Day' as a national public holiday. Before then (since 1961) it had status "as a national day of thanksgiving in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi", and a provincial holiday in Northland.

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

@StephenClarkeNZ So sad, I also wonder why

[The Coconet @TheCoconetTV]

Meet the Tongan filmmakers who were selected for the infamous Sundance Film Festival over 17,000 applications 🇹🇴🎞️📽️
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Luciane Buchanan & Vea Mafile’o have taken Utah by storm with their short film Lea Tupu’anga/Mother Tongue.

#TonganFilmmakers

https://t.co/Hy0vYsseuj

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

The grinch in me is glad Xmas is over.

[Bridget Williams Books @BWB_NZ]

'[Rugby League in New Zealand] will appeal to those with a love of history and sport – as well as strong human tales - and won’t stay on the coffee table for long.'

Michael Burgess reviews Ryan Bodman's 'Rugby League in New Zealand.

https://t.co/SRsoF24Up4

#nzhistory #bwbooks

[Tarryn-tino-rakatirataka 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @Tarryntino]

Do you know the difference between pinot noir, pinot gris and Chardonnay?

[Alex Barnes @HotereBarnes]

My PhD is now freely available:
Te Toka Whakaea: Co-governance Education in Aotearoa-New Zealand - https://t.co/SMSv7XLV45 thanks to the support crew 🤜🏻🌄🤛🏽 Mahia atu! Do it up!
#ScholarAlerts #tetiriti #education #SocialJustice @heather_came @humphries_kil

[Ponifasio Samoa 🇼🇸 @Ponifasio_Samoa]

My wedding went a little something like this ahahaha

[. @StephenClarkeNZ]

105 years ago today SS Talune arrived in Western Samoa with the Influenza Pandemic. NZ colonial authorities failed to consider the risk of sick people on board with disastrous ramifications: 8500 dead or 22% pop. The death ship continued to spread the pandemic to Fiji and Tonga.

[Indira Stewart @Indiratweets]

Pacific MPs in govt will go down from 11 to... 1 Pacific MP under National Coalition govt.

And that's PENDING SPECIAL VOTES in Te Atatū, currently the tightest race in NZ with a margin of 30 votes.

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

Almost everyone is wearing a hat

[Early Aotearoa New Zealand @ZealandEarly]

1931 election night crowds on the corner of Willis and Mercer streets, Wellington. Source: National Library of NZ
https://t.co/EzqQXsbNZV

[Archives New Zealand @ArchivesNZ]

Our new online exhibition featuring School Journal artworks from our holdings is now live. Explore recently digitised artworks by Cliff Whiting, Gavin Bishop, E. Mervyn Taylor, Ans Westra, Dame Robin White, Dick Frizzell and more: https://t.co/EVayDuxUSQ

[The Coconet @TheCoconetTV]

"It is urgent that we reflect on the Treaty of Waitangi... [and] the relationship between tangata whenua and tangata Pasifika"
- Lupematasila Dr Melani Anae, QSO on Māori and Pacific history and how it can shape NZ's future 🌺🌏

#TeWikiOTeReoMaori

https://t.co/CsRBM1L3tM

[Saia @SaiaWalker]

@miiharo_____ Happy bday!! Z