Tō mātou haerenga: the journey of a fractured-connected Taiamai whānau: Reflections from a hapū wānanga

Jacquie Kidd; Tracy  Murphy; Caitlin Putnam; Andrew Kidd; Ellie Robertson

doi:10.24135/ee.v7i2.282

Jacquie Kidd
Tracy Murphy
Caitlin Putnam
Andrew Kidd
Ellie Robertson

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/ee.v7i2.282

Keywords: colonisation, alienation, Māori, Indigenous, autoethnography, waka hourua

Abstract

For some whānau Māori, colonisation has resulted in the disconnection from their home marae, whenua, hapū and iwi. This paper takes a collective authoethnograhical approach to describing and exploring a recent journey of reconnection and discovery embarked on by one whānau. The journey is framed by the construction of a waka hourua, a double hulled canoe, to represent the two parts of the hapū; those who retained their home base connection and those who were disconnected through generations of colonisation, racism and geographical distance.

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