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...
Tūāhu. By Maakarita Paku Apr 2017 Gifts from our Grandmothers and Grandfathers Nā Maakarita Paku Nō Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Muriwhenua, Lakota Oyate Tūāhu ki te kainga When the trees begin to shed their leaves and the evening breezes we have...
The Weaving of Veranoa Hetet. By Veranoa Hetet Mar 2015 Kia ora Ko Veranoa Hetet toku ingoa. No Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Maniapoto me Te Atiawa ahau. My name is Veranoa Hetet. I am from the Iwi of Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Maniapoto and TeAtiawa. Veranoa Hetet in her...
