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for his work engaging the public at the boundary between science and traditional Māori knowledge. In March 2021, Mātāmua was awarded
Fellowship of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition that his work "has revolutionised understandings of Māori astronomy, and in particular Matariki".
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Mātāmua has since written widely on
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at dawn. Timi Rāwiri produced from a cupboard a 400-page manuscript written in Te Reo Māori. The manuscript had been written over many years in the 19th century by Timi Rāwiri's grandfather Rāwiri Te Kōkau and father Te Kōkau
Himiona Te Pikikōtuku, who was a
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Mātāmua has been critical of the way
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Zealand and Australia.
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Te Reo Pāho : Māori radio and language revitalisation
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