Over the past three years Māori people in New Zealand have testified to the abuse and discrimination they have faced from the state child protection agency that has separated a disproportionate number of Māori tamariki [children] from their families. Now, as reports are being released and reforms proposed, they are putting up their own vision of welfare designed by Māori, for Māori.
This project examines how Māori communities are turning to their own child welfare models to restore agency and heal the intergenerational trauma caused by the state's separation of mothers and babies.
