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Kūkaniloko: What It Means as the Piko of O’ahu
Get PDFYears ago an older man from Arizona well-versed in indigenous astronomies went with me to Kūkaniloko. He asked me, “there are seven directions – what are they?”
For about 12 years Iʻve been researching precontact astronomy represented at Kūkaniloko, the site known as the piko of O’ahu – the navel, the center of the island. It is also one of only two royal birthing sites in Ka Pae ‘Āina, the Hawaiian archipelago. The piko-ness of Kūkaniloko has been very much at the core of my research data. And that data showed that precontact astronomy at Kūkaniloko was about much more than sun stations, star rises and sets, calendrics, and navigation. The data showed that bigger ideas, things like the structure of space and time – wā and kā – and matters of gender relations, the importance of ao and pō, and other philosophical or metaphysical ideas were embedded in Kūkanilokoʻs astronomy
“God is…”: A personal theology based on stories from my grandmother
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Tangihanga
Get PDFThis piece is about the tangihanga of my grandmother who was born in 1940 and passed away in December 2017. My grandmother practically raised me. Her influence over my life is undeniable. She sacrificed much for me and encouraged and believed in me always. My grandmother came from a different world to others in her generation. She was raised in Waiōhau, the home-base of the Patuheuheu hapū. She was a native speaker of the Tūhoe dialect and she came from a world where the spiritual and physical were seen as one. This piece speaks of the tangihanga process and emphasises the intensity of the grief we experience as Māori when someone close to us dies, but also the healing that comes from being surrounded by whānau
Oranga
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The book “The Tail of the Fish” was publised in 1968 and written by a Te Aupouri kuia, Matire Kereama (nee: Hoeft) of the far north of Aotearoa, New Zealand. I grew up with this book as my grandmother would read the stories to me at bedtime. Although my comprehension of each story was very vague and unrelatable to my life at that time, today, I find myself totally absorbed by the historical content and knowledge encapsulated in each chapter.
I completed a Masters of Applied Indigenous Knowledge at Te Wananga o Aotearoa in 2017, entitled; Tales of the singing fish: He tangi wairua. I compsed twelve waiata (Maori songs) of which ten of the waiata was information extracted from ten chapters of the book. The other two waiata were composed specifically for my people of the Te Rarawa tribe, namely, Ahipara.
After a baby was born, being a male child, his navel or pito was very carefully treated
Reflections on The Book of Mormon musical: Flirtations with Mormon theology
Get PDFSince childhood, I have been fascinated by religion. This fascination - and frequent obsession - has remained a significant part of my psyche. I was raised within a syncretistic Māori theological context: a mixture of ancient Māori spirituality blended seamlessly with various Christian denominations and Ringatū - a syncretistic faith founded by the nineteenth century Māori prophet, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. I attended all sorts of churches. This article explores some of my thoughts and reflections about The Book of Mormon musical.
 
The Mana Model
Get PDFThe Mana model about my ‘identity’, my indigenous practice, and is based on understanding the mana that every indigenous person embodies
My Journey
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the origins of my tacit knowledge as a social work practitioner, utilising a narrative form I will explore the journey of my ancestors and my own personal journey, discussing how those experiences link with the tacit knowledge of my social work practice. This knowledge is a combination of Wairua through Kinaesthetic application and pebbles that were dropped into a river of transitions many years ago that would later contribute to the strands of my current social work practice via a process of evolution; my practice did not simply happen, many of the strands and transitions that contributed to the evolution of my practice took place before I was even born
Te Mere Pounamu
Get PDFThe book “The Tail of the Fish” was publised in 1968 and written by a Te Aupouri kuia, Matire Kereama (nee: Hoeft) of the far north of Aotearoa, New Zealand. I grew up with this book as my grandmother would read the stories to me at bedtime. Although my comprehension of each story was very vague and unrelatable to my life at that time, today, I find myself totally absorbed by the historical content and knowledge encapsulated in each chapter.
I completed a Masters of Applied Indigenous Knowledge at Te Wananga o Aotearoa in 2017, entitled; Tales of the singing fish: He tangi wairua. I compsed twelve waiata (Maori songs) of which ten of the waiata was information extracted from ten chapters of the book. The other two waiata were composed specifically for my people of the Te Rarawa tribe, namely, Ahipara.
The great ancestress, Waimirirangi, who is known as ‘Queen of Ngā Puhi’, had seven children from whom the northern Māori tribes are descended
Atuatanga
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Out of focus, like a ghostly shadow
An enigmatic shape in the corner of my eye
Behind a veil of dense mis
“Stories are knowledge, and knowledge is literature”: Viewing and re-viewing sites/cites of mātauranga Māori as an alternative to traditional Western literature reviews
Get PDFViewing and re-viewing sites/cites of mātauranga Māori as an alternative to traditional Western literature review