Piki ake, kake ake i te Toihuarewa te ara o Tāwhaki i piki ai ki runga...
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha, tēnā koutou katoa. He
kupu poto ēnei nāku mo te ihonui nei a Toihuarewa. He atinga no te hua
kairākau a Te Kawa a Māui.
Mā te wā hei titiro. Mā ngā hua ka mōhio ai. Heoi anō ko te tūmanako ka tipu ka rea hei ihonui whaitikanga.
In
2001, the University formalised its ihonui, or Māori academic forum, as
a separate University-wide faculty equivalent called Toihuarewa.
Toihuarewa, means the pathway taken by Tāwhaki (te ara o Tāwhaki), to
achieve higher learning. Toihuarewa is symbolised by the poutama
pattern, which depicts periods of growth/work/ascent, and by periods of plateau, consolidation and gestation.
Tucked away behind the hustle and bustle of Kelburn Parade,
stands the majestically carved house Te Tumu Herenga Waka on its lush
surroundings. Established in 1980, Te Herenga Waka is the University
marae. It is used as a teaching facility and a community-based marae.
It is the Māori space on campus. Lunch is available four days a week
during the academic year.
Te Herenga Waka Marae offers study space, a computer room, and
somewhere for students to hang out. Many students take part in
welcoming and farewelling Manuhiri (visitors) at the marae.
The dining room at 46 Kelburn Parade is named Ngā Mokopuna (the
grandchildren). Nga Mokopuna is an integral part of the Marae that
provides manaakitanga (hospitality) to many manuhiri (visitors) that
visit Victoria University as well as the students who participate in
the daily activities at the Marae. It is also the place at the Marae
where most of the informal student activity occurs. There are tables to
study and eat on, some library resources, tea and coffee all day and a
fully equipped computer suite for student use. Good quality, reasonably
priced kai is provided at lunch time each day of term throughout the
academic year.
Dr Lynne Pere of Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāti Māmoe, Rangitāne, Ngāti Porou and a Senior Research Fellow at
the Health Services Research Centre in the School of Government, has
been awarded $400,000 for a Postdoctoral Fellowship on Indigenous
mental health research.
Dr Pere will
investigate the influence of culture on the meaning that Indigenous
peoples from New Zealand, Australia and Canada, who have experience of
mental illness, impart to their illness.
"My research will consider how this might inform New Zealand’s
mental health service delivery and policy, and extend my contribution
to Indigenous knowledge and development," she says.
Over the next four years Dr Pere will carry out face-to-face,
in-depth 'korero' with Indigenous peoples with experience of mental
illness, Indigenous mental health experts from tribal regions and
mental health service providers.
The funding was part of $1.5 million awarded to 11 Maori health
researchers by the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
For more information please contact: Lynne.Pere@vuw.ac.nz
He Maramara: Did the Treaty of Waitangi guarantee to Maori possession of their rivers?
The
following comment was made in 1842 in an editorial in the Governor's Maori newspaper: "...e
hoa. ma, kua wareware pea koutou ki te pukapuka i tuhituhia ki
Waitangi, i roto i taua pukapuka ka waiho nga kauri katoa, nga awa, nga
aha katoa ma te tangata Maori hei aha noa atu ki a ia." [Translation]
"...friends, perhaps you have forgotten that document written at
Waitangi where in that document all the kauri, the rivers, everthing is
left to the Maori to do with as he wishes."
Te Karere o Nui Tireni, Issue 1, No. 7, 1 July 1842, pp. 27-28.
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