Introduction

While you read, sit back and listen to the music by Reti Hedley, a composer, musician, producer and taonga pūoro practitioner. This waiata was inspired by his Māmā, the late Rangiiria Hedley, who was a practitioner and educator of taonga pūoro. With collaborators Moetu Smith and Turoa Pohatu they created IA, a music project where they create indigenous soul music featuring the voices of taonga pūoro".

"Mana Wahine is a term that encompasses our own tikanga and which upholds and elucidates the mana that is inherent in our lives as hine, as wahine, in its many forms. It embeds our wellbeing and our ways of being within particular cultural understandings, beliefs and practices that affirm who we are within our whakapapa and whanaungatanga, our roles, our positioning, our responsibilities, our obligations". (Te Kotahi Research, Shared in this text are writings by Maaori Waahine who share koorero about kaupapa such as colonisation and the imposition of partiarchy by Ani Mikaere, Constitutional reform and Mana Waahine by Annette Sykes, Ngāhuia Murphy, “Te awa atua: The river of life! Menstruation in pre-colonial times”, and much much more.

He aha/What: To gain an understanding of the impact of colonisation on Maaori waahine.

Whāinga/Aim: To reflect on opportunities to realise transformation, decolonisation and indigenising the spaces that surround us.

Wā/Time: 120 minutes

Wai 2700 Mana Wāhine Hearing 1 Day 1

At 3 hours 37 minutes Dr Ani Mikaere presents her oral submission.

Wai 2700 Mana Wāhine Hearing 1 Day 1 - YouTube

Mana Wāhine Wai 2700 A030(b)

Wai 2700, A030(b).pdf

Mana wāhine volume 2-1.

https://leoniepihama.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/mana-wahine-volume-2-1.pdf

Mana wahine: Decolonising politics

The article reflects on Linda Smith’s discussion of four mana wahine projects: wairua, whānau, state, and indigenous and white women’s discourses.