New Zealand's wahine Māori have more to contend with than ordinary sexism | Tina Ngata

Colonisation has had a particular effect on Indigenous wahine that disadvantages them to this day

The Mana Wahine Kaupapa Inquiry hearings will begin this week, investigating claims regarding the specific tiriti violations of the crown that have led to injustice against wahine Mori across social, physical, spiritual, economic, political and cultural dimensions.

It has been a long time coming, having first been filed in 1993 and led out by the Mori Women's Welfare League, and then initiated as an inquiry in 2018. While it can be said that all Waitangi inquiry hearings are traumatic, frustrating and difficult, it's expected that this one in particular will reveal a history that is as foundational, on a national scale, as it is disturbing.