Ō tātou reo, Na domoda, Kuruwilang birad: Indigenous voices in higher education

As we write this editorial, COVID-19 is still spreading rapidly across the globe. The Black Lives Matter movement has also extended beyond the United States and is motivating people worldwide to challenge racism and discrimination in all its forms. We are regularly told by politicians, news readers and social media that we are living in unprecedented times. But, for some, these times are not so unprecedented. Indigenous peoples across the Pacific, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have endured devastating pandemics before. We have also been subjected to over 250 years of colonisation that, at best, sought to assimilate us and, at worst, eradicate us.