Still Being Punished

“I have seen rangatahi arrogantly pass judgement on their elders who do not speak te reo Maori. I see the pain felt by our elders who were punished as children and who now suffer at the hands of the rangatahi who do not know about our history.”

The stories collected here are told by Maori men and women who were physically disciplined at school for speaking the Maori language. Their stories are of the on-going effects of institutional violence meted out at the intersection of body, language and society.