Nōu te Ao
www.waikato.ac.nz/maori
May 2010
sponsored by the pro vice-chancellor māori office
Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori Update
One of the purposes of Te Miro is to inform our staff, students, alumni and other stakeholders about the
Māori programmes, events, comings and goings at the University of Waikato.
The Māori distinctiveness of the University is
well recognised nationally and continues to be
a strong feature of the University’s campus and
ethos. This year brings us new opportunities
to enrich the experience of our students and
ensure that they achieve success. Increasingly there are messages from
Government that students and institutions must work harder at achieving
academic success. Already our returning students know that getting into the
University and staying in has become more difficult. It is really important that
our students be connected with support structures such as the mentoring
units and Te Puna Tautoko so that there is access to appropriate academic
support as well as personal support. The Waikato Student Union also has an
important role in keeping students connected and supported throughout
their time at University. It takes several people to keep a student at the
University, most of whom the student will never meet. The task of those
people within the University system is to ensure that the student, once
accepted, is given every opportunity to succeed. The part our students must
play is to make the connections and sustain the relationships – something
most of our students are good at, but not all. We need everyone’s assistance
to identify students at risk. I hope everyone has a good year.
Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori
Professor of Education & Māori Development
Uni Wide Pōwhiri Welcome
to First Year Students
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 here at Waikato
University, Te Kohinga Mārama Marae was packed
with the hundreds of first year students and their
families who partook in the Uni-Wide Pōwhiri
or welcome.
In addition to being formally welcomed according
to Māori tradition it was also an opportunity for
students to connect with key services to help
support them during their studies.
People came from all corners of the country as well
as overseas to ensure their correct transition from
‘visitor’ to becoming one of the ‘home people’.
Once the official part of the pōwhiri had finished,
Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford offered
He Poroporoaki
Ngā Kai o Roto
Inside
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Uni Wide Welcome Pōwhiri
Māori Info Day
Hākinakina
his words of welcome and wisdom followed by
local Māori MP Hon Nanaia Mahuta who had
some awesome thoughts to share with the
students in the hope that it may offer some help
and guidance during their journey at University.
Nanaia’s main advice, which is a must for all
students, was to “work hard, then play hard”!
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He Mihi – Rebecca Rose
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Photo Lift Out
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Kīngitanga Day
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Te Amorangi National Māori
Academic Excellence Awards
SEE PŌWHIRI PICS ON NEXT PAGE …
Ngarongo Iwikatea Nicholson
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Nā Professor Pou Temara
Ki a koutou ngā manu huna a Tāne kua manehurangitia nei, tae noa ki te pōkai kākākura nō
nātata nei i hūnaia ai, koutou katoa, takoto, okioki.
Kua tutuki tā koutou i rangitāmiro ai ki te ao mārama, kua āhiki ki te ora.
Waiho ake ana ko mātou, ko ngā mōrehu o te rangaawatea a Whiro-ki-te-pō, kia oke i te mate,
kia pōrorotua mō koutou ka ngaro ki te pō.
Nō reira takoto i te urunga tē taka, te moenga tē whita, tē au, tē rea, te moenga tē whakaarahia.
He Mihi – Ngāhuia Dixon
Wātaka
Manu Ao
Te Wānanga Karetao
Check out page 7…
For a full page spread on
Kīngitanga Day.
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Haka Pōwhiri.
Koro Rewi Rapana, University Kaumātua.
Hundreds of first year students and their families awaiting to be welcomed
on to Te Kohinga Mārama Marae.
Cherie Waititi from the Faculty of Education
greets parent Mereaira Hata.
Te Pae Manuwhiri.
Māori Info Day
O’ Week – free sausage sizzles, irie sounds,
pamphlets and prizes galore, fun and
frivolity, silly games, good times and
a party every night.
New faces, long lost connections, asking
for directions, course outlines and student
loans, where’s the library, my class, have
you seen my phone?
What did my lecturer say? scared, excited,
hoping to make it through the day.
Māori Info Day outside Te Āhurutanga,
a meeting place mō ngā hau e whā,
A chance to engage, enjoy and discover,
All that Māori Student Support Services
have to offer.
Your Māori Mentors they are the
people to know,
In order to help maintain your flow,
get you where you need to go.
Emcee Freeze, hand over the mic please,
Every School and Faculty, all there
to help thee,
Plus Gwenda (scholarships), Hinerangi
(library), Maria (Counsellor), my Uni Aunties
NRG Rising, rocking reggae rhythms rhyming,
Moving the crowd, swinging swaying vibing,
Don’t forget your Māori@waikato diary
with all your important dates,
Oops better get to class don’t want
to be late!
Hākinakina Interschool Sports Day
Every semester in the University of Waikato’s calendar
hundreds of Māori students from across the campus meet
to battle it out on the sports fields and courts for the
A Semester Inter School Hākinakina Sports Competition.
Mixed teams of ten from all schools across campus engage in games of
touch rugby and netball. However to decipher the overall champions
of the day all teams partake in an exciting, strong and very entertaining
game of tug-o-war. This is always a hard case exchange and it is in this
game, that you see who the real champions are.
For last two years the competition has been taken out by Te Ranga
Ngaku from the Waikato Management School but unfortunately they
were knocked off their perch with Faculty of Education rising as the
overall victors.
At the end of the day fun and good times was had by all players and
support people alike.
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Hākinakina Winning Team, Faculty of Education.
He Mihi
Four of New Zealand’s outstanding young people have been awarded the prestigious William Georgetti Scholarship,
and two of the awards have been awarded to students of Waikato University notably, up and coming young Māori woman
leader graduate of the Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, Rebecca Rose.
The awards, managed by Public Trust and administered by the NZVCC,
total $318,000 for 2010.
Rebecca Rose nō Te Atiawa
The overall winners for 2010 are:
Miss Rose is able to use her scholarship to attend either Harvard
University, New York University, the University of Chicago, Cambridge
University or Oxford University (to be confirmed); $45,000 for one year.
» Emma Dixon – University of Otago to Oxford University; $75,000
over three years
A former student of
Fairfield College, Hamilton,
Miss Rose is looking to
undertake further study
and do an LLM or
BCL, looking at possible
applications of economics
and quantitative methods
to law and legal institutions.
» Tehnuka Ilanko – University of Waikato to Cambridge University;
$108,000 over three years
» Rebecca Rose – University of Waikato to either Harvard University,
New York University, the University of Chicago, Cambridge University
or Oxford University (to be confirmed); $45,000 for one year
» Richard Zhang – University of Canterbury to Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT); $90,000 over three years
The William Georgetti Scholarship was set-up to encourage postgraduate
study and research in a field which is important to the social, cultural and
economic development of New Zealand. The scholarship was established
as a perpetual charitable trust from the estate of William Georgetti who
died in 1943. Mr Georgetti desired “that the best brains available shall
receive the benefit of this trust”.
Her outside interests
include volunteer work,
long distance running and
cooking, to name a few.
Applications for the William Georgetti Scholarship should be made by
1 October each year. Application details can be found at www.nzvcc.ac.nz
Whaea Ngāhuia Dixon
Nō Ngāti Ranginui rātou ko
Ngai Te Rangi, ko Tainui ki te
taha ki a Ngai Tamarāwaho me
Te Arawa ki te taha ki a Ngai
Te Ahi te Rūruhi rangatira nei a
Whaea Ngāhuia Dixon.
Fellow colleagues Haupai Puke and Aroha Yates-Smith join
Ngāhuia in song.
He wahine hūmārie he wahine
mākohakoha nui te mātauranga anō
hoki mō ngōnā mōhiotanga hōhonu
nei ki te ao Māori me ngōnā āhuatanga, tikanga katoa.
Nō tēnei tau tonu i poroporoakingia e mātou ngā kaimahi o Te Whare
Wānanga o Waikato ki Kirikiriroa nei a Whaea Ngāhuia.
E whia kē ngā tau kua mahi ia hei Pūkenga hei Kaiako ki te wāhi
nei ēngari ehake i te mea koinā anake ngōna taonga kua tuku
kua tohatoha ia hei waihotanga mō te manomano, tauira mai
kaimahi mai.
Mōhio whānuitia a Whaea Ngāhuia mō tōnā tohungatanga ki te Reo
Māori ki te karanga ki te tito waiata tautoko hoki, kia hāngai tika tonu
ki ngā kōrero e rere haere ana i runga i te pae i whea atu rānei.
Ahakoa ka noho mokemoke mātou o konei i te whāruarua kua
waihongia e ia ka tau tonu te ngākau i runga anō i te mōhio ka noho
tonu a Whaea Ngāhuia hei whakaruruhau hei āhuru mōwai ahakoa
kei whea ia.
L-R: Aroha Yates Smith, Waldo Houia, Raana Huata, Panda Waititi,
Ngāhuia Dixon mahi ngahu Matariki Dawn Ceremony 2007.
E te Rūruhi e te poutokomanawa nei rā te karamihi o te aroha ki a koe.
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He Kohinga Mahara – Reflections
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Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Awards
On Friday 9 April 2010 the Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Awards were held at Tūrangawaeawae Marae
in Ngāruawaahia. The auspicious occasion celebrated those Māori who have ascended the pinnacle of education and who
have recently graduated with their PhDs.
Twenty six recipients were acknowledged on the night.The most important
and prestigious award for the evening, the Tohu Whakamaharatanga
ki Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu was awarded to respected elder
from Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga and Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngarongo
Iwikatea Nicholson.
All recipients hail from a variety of disciplines and diverse educational
backgrounds. The hopes dreams and desires of the recipients and their
families and supporters is that the arduous journey that they undertook
to complete their doctorates will benefit not only the immediate family
but also the wider hapū and te iwi Māori as a whole. The valuable research
gathered will serve to further enhance, develop and uplift Māori.
Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Excellence Award Reipients 2009.
The genuine care given from the home people and organisers, the delicious
food and rousing entertainment ensured all recipients and their friends
and families had a much deserved fabulous night.
Ngārongo Iwikātea Nicholson – Citation
Ngārongo Iwikātea Nicholson was raised by his grandfather of Ngāti Raukawa and his grandmother of Ngāti Toarangatira and
Ngāti Pāhauwera. His grandfather was disciplined in mind and behaviour; his grandmother a source of te reo.
Iwi, as he is commonly known, has a reputation
for insisting that things are done right, that
tikanga are maintained in what we do, say
and think. This insistence frequently leads to
the public reprimanding of people, particularly
of his own, and one gets the impression that
this includes the whole of Tainui waka, without
hesitation. Tikanga are inherited practises that
guide us in how we interact with each other.
Straying from these leads us into compromise.
Conceding to other influences when practising
our tikanga is frowned upon by Iwikātea and
often leads to prompt action on his part. Then
again he is always willing to receive criticism
where an opposing view is consistent with
tikanga. His lifetime commitment is to ensure
that what we practise is tika.
His resolve on acknowledging the influence
of others and his acceptance of criticism can
be appreciated in an experience he describes
as a turning point for him, in realising the
responsibilities we have to our hapū and iwi.
Nearly 50 years ago, while attending and
helping at the tangi of a workmates father, he
was confronted by an aunt who, along with
other hapū members, had arrived at the tangi.
She ignored his outstretched hand, for the
customary harirū, and instead launched into
a vigorous tirade about him spending time at
marae other than his own and his absolute
lack of commitment to the hapū and iwi of
his koroua, one of those who established his
marae. Accepting his aunty’s advice he, soon
after, became the marae fence mender and then
fittingly, the Chairman of the Marae Committee,
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a position he held for 35 years. He also developed
himself to be a speaker for his insistent aunt,
Atareti Te Urumākoha Takotokino Jacob, whose
daughter Hoana along with her daughter, the
Tumuaki of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, and others
from their marae are here tonight.
Though familiar with the historical significance
of the venue for this evening’s occasion and
with being in the presence of Kīngi Tūheitia
and his whānau, Iwikātea has spoken of the
embarrassment of being singled out through the
attention bestowed on him tonight. He speaks
of having received much more from the taonga
created by his tūpuna and their generation,
namely, the Kīngitanga, than he has given.
This is an inheritance, a tikanga that requires
action, from his tūpuna of Ngāti Toarangatira
and Ngāti Raukawa that was nurtured by Te
Ōuenuku Rēne in his time. Iwikātea became his
bag-boy in the 1960s and would accompany
him on his many travels including the invaluable
annual movement to Koroneihana. Koroneihana
provided a very unique opportunity to hear
rangatira from Tainui and from around the
motu, who were icons of our people. The Tainui
contemporaries of Te Ōuenuku who Iwikātea
observed include Ngāpaka Kukutai; Whitiora
Kupa; Te Whati Tāmati; Pāhi Moke; Te Uira
Manihera; Pei Te Hurinui; Tira Tuaarangi Te Putu;
Pūrangi Hērangi and Kīngi Matutaera Ihaka and
a whole host of others. Those from around the
country who have had an influence, through
the Koroneihana of the 1960s and 70s, on
Iwikātea include Hēmana Te Pōkiha (Te Arawa);
Hetekia Te Kani Te Ua (Tairāwhiti); Ngākohu
Pera (Whakatōhea); Te Iri Manihera (Tūhoe);
Waimārama Pūhara (Kahungunu) Mutu Kapa
(Taitokerau) and many others.
For Iwi, it is important that we continue or reengage our commitment to the Kīngitanga as
an institution of Kotahitanga initiated by our
tūpuna. Iwikātea continues to maintain this
tikanga of being steadfast to the Kīngitanga,
experiences with which have been hugely
beneficial to him.
In the rohe of the Pou Kīngi o Ngāti Raukawa,
Tararua Maunga and the Pou Kīngi o Ngāti
Toarangatira, Tawhitikurī, Iwikātea has emerged
as the reo of these pou kīngi.
Ngarongo Iwikatea Nicholson and Kīngi Tuheitia.
Kīngitanga Day
Wednesday 21 April saw hundreds gather across Waikato
University in celebration of the Kīngitanga and just as
importantly the birthday of our Maaori King Tuheitia.
In its second year Kīngitanga Day was established to raise awareness
and acknowledge the Kīngitanga and the unique relationship with
Waikato University. The day hosted a variety of guest presentations,
cultural activities such as weaving, poi and haka, live performances
and entertainment, games, Māori merchandise stalls and much more
King Tuheitia launches Digital Library.
across campus.
International Students mahi poi at Te Kohinga Mārama Marae.
TV2 youth programme IAMTV captures
the festivities.
Weaving at Te Kohinga Mārama Marae.
Professor Linda Smith –
Māori Pro Vice-Chancellor.
Ngareta Skipper mahi poi
at Te Kohinga Mārama Marae.
Kīngitanga Day Volunteers
Sam Collins, Hemi Whaanga, Joseph Macfarlane and Dean Jones.
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Manu Ao Programme for 2010
Manu Ao is a National Inter-University Māori
Academy for Academic and Professional
Advancement, it has three main objectives:
» Accelerating Māori leadership
» Strengthening the links between Māori
Academics and Māori Professionals
» Advancing Māori scholarship
Manu Ao has two streams:
1. A nationally based programme of activities
which includes a series of weekly seminars,
a leadership programme, academic fora,
symposia
and
scholarship
research.
Information on the National Programme is
available on www.manu-ao.ac.nz
2. A Regional campus-based programme for the
University of Waikato which includes:
Staff Development Workshops
These will be offered to Māori academic
staff of the University of Waikato and will
be facilitated by Professor Linda Smith and
invited guest speakers.
Manu Ao Waikato Contestable Fund
A contestable fund will be made available
to Māori academic staff of the University
of Waikato for the purpose of:
» Fostering and encouraging the collaboration
of Māori academic staff across Faculties.
» Supporting the development of Māori
academic staff in teaching and research; and
» Supporting the development of the
university’s Māori academic staff profile
by encouraging research publications; staff
enrolments and completions in doctoral
qualifications; and improvements in
individual PBRF rankings.
Māori Research Directory
The purpose of the Research directory
is to promote researchers and to assist
researchers to make connections with others
who have similar interests. This ongoing
project involves creating a database of all
Māori academic staff here at Waikato.
If you have any queries regarding the Manu Ao
programme for 2010 please do not hesitate to
contact Academic Coordinator Kirsten Gabel
[email protected]
Te Wānanga Karetao
Currently there is a dearth of information
pertaining to Māori puppetry, variously known
by iwi (tribes) as karetao, keretao, korotao,
kararī, rapatahuri, repetahuri and tokoraurape.
The wānanga karetao was facilitated as part
of a scoping exercise to address that dearth by
bringing this indigenous art form back into the
community once more.
Over recent decades, there have been pockets
of interest around Aotearoa in creating and
Wānanga Karetao Group
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Up & Coming Events
4 PĪPIRI / JUNE
MATARIKI Celebrating
Hineraukatauri –
Ngā Taonga Puoro
For more info check out:
www.waikato.ac.nz/maori
or email: [email protected]
10-11 PĪPIRI / JUNE
Te Toi O Matariki
Writing Workshop
For more info email:
[email protected]
26 HŌNGONGOI / JULY
Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori – Waiata ā
Ringa Seminar
For more info check out:
www.waikato.ac.nz/maori
or email: [email protected]
By Aroha Yates-Smith
2010 presents a new decade, bringing opportunities for reflection on our past,
on the taonga (physical and metaphysical) we have inherited from that past, and
ultimately, the future possibilities for developing artforms and cultural milieu
utilising those taonga, in this case, karetao, Māori puppetry.
Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, the School of Māori and
Pacific Development, began the new decade well
by hosting the inaugural wānanga (symposium)
on karetao, in February of this year.
Wātaka
carving karetao, with some discussion about
their role and significance in traditional Māori
society. My personal involvement came when,
in 2003, Rose Beauchamp, a New Zealand
puppeteer, approached me to assist in reviving
the karetao practice.
The recent wānanga brought cultural experts
and a small number of artists, academics and
graduate students together to talk about past
practices, and discover more about the world
of the karetao. Most felt they knew little about
the subject, but as the wānanga proceeded,
excitement mounted as people became aware
of the huge potential for using karetao in
a number of fora. Over the two days, attendees
were encouraged to work with some recently
carved karetao – impromptu presentations
revealed rich performance possibilities of the
karetao, thanks to the creative flair of the group.
This collaborative/explorative effort generated
even greater enthusiasm for reviving the
karetao, as aids in teaching, performance and
health practices.
Further wānanga are planned, with avenues
for reviving the creation and use of karetao
being sought …
26-30 HŌNGONGOI / JULY
Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori
www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz
6 HERETURIKŌKĀ / AUGUST
TE MURA HAKA NGAHURU SUPER
10 KAPA HAKA COMPETITION
For more info check out:
www.waikato.ac.nz/maori
or email [email protected]
1-2 MĀHURU / SEPTEMBER
Te Toi O Matariki Māori Graduate
Student Conference
For more info email:
[email protected]
Contact
For all inquiries and contributions please
contact the editor:
Maria Huata
Phone:
+64 7 838 4363
Email:
[email protected]