A time to heal: Mother blessing By Ashlee Sturme Feb 2015 Crippled with antenatal depression, unable to think clearly, and very much not in the mood to celebrate with a baby shower, I stumbled across ‘blessingway’ in my research and felt a faint warmth of hope wrap...
Women are the Source of Power By Rhonda Tibble Baker Reid Jun 2014 Women are the source of life and power in their Whare Tangata. What were you told about the power of this? If you don’t have a name for your Whare Tangata – your power centre, then you are looking for...
Whenua By Amy Towle Sep 2015 When a woman becomes pregnant, she not only grows a human being and soul but also an amazing organ that makes it all possible. An organ that feeds the baby, takes away waste and deoxygenated blood from baby. An organ that can dictate not...
Whenua to whenua By Home Birth Aotearoa Sep 2014 When a baby is born to the people of this land (tangata whenua), to Māori, it is customary to bury the whenua or placenta in the earth, to return it to the land. Most often the whenua is buried in a place with ancestral...
Whare tangata By Chanz Mikaere Nov 2014 Whare Tangata representation is scarce amongst academic and art sources: racist and colonising agendas have largely succeeded in absorbing the interests of tangata whenua. My interest in the dissemination of Whare Tangata...
