Self-guided study - The Wall Walk®

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If you only ever read one book on NZ history...

I would recommend this one

By the late, great Dr Ranginui Walker, it covers all of the topics in The Wall Walk and more! If you have difficulty getting hold of a new copy, try buying one second-hand.

The National Library also has a range of relevant recordings that you can access online to grow your knowledge of Wall Walk-related history.

Judge Joe Williams’s 2019 Robin Cooke lecture, “Build a Bridge and Get Over It: The Role of Colonial Dispossession in Contemporary Indigenous Offending and What We Should Do About It”.

Dr Moana Jackson’s 16 Nov 2017 public lecture, “Why did Māori never have prisons?”.

If you have access to Netflix, check out the feature-length documentary “13th” based on Michelle Alexander’s book.

Hilary Cottam talks about “inverting the system”, through inversions of time and inversions of power. This is all part of the transformation she argues for from “transactional welfare” to “relational welfare”. At the heart of her thinking is the idea that the welfare system should be focussed on creating capability not managing dependence. For her, one of the best ways of creating capability is by broadening our social connections – creating groups that have people from different backgrounds with different skills, connections and experiences to share.

James Belich’s New Zealand Wars documentary collection on YouTube.

Lessons from a Recovering Racist, TEDTalk from Andrew Judd the former Mayor of New Plymouth, an advocate of Māori wards in local Government.

Trailer for A Boy Called Piano: The Story of Fa’amoana ‘John’ Luafutu. This is the story of one Pasifika boy’s time as a state ward and the long-term consequences of that for him and his aiga.

Ria Hall’s mini-documentary It Takes a Kāinga tells the stories of a handful of Māori māmā, their experiences of childbirth and childrearing and some of the challenges they face.