Cultural Revitalization

Cultural Revitalization | Pou Tikanga

The Reverend Zhane Tāhau Whelan

Manager Pou Tikanga (Archives)

Ngāi Te Upokoiri

From the Hakiwai, Whitiwhiti- Tāreha, Tāhau and Sullivan whānau.

Cobham Burns

Research Assistant

Ngāi Te Upokoiri, Ngāti Hinemanu

From the Pineaha, Tāreha whānau.

Te Ahiko | Te Piringa Hapū Archives

Securing our culture & identity of our whānau, hapū and marae.

Key Mahi:

Archiving and collecting of Mātauranga-ā-hapū. Interviewing kaumatua and gathering mātauranga from institutions and whānau.
Cultural Mapping of wāhi tapu and sites of significance.
Hapū Research Unit, producing cultural impact assessments.
Production of Mātauranga-ā-hapū resources for Ministry of Education.
Development of a fit-for-purpose digital pataka to store our mātauranga.
Working towards the development of a Whare Taonga. Working on the Marsden Fund application to build a research project around our taonga.

Te Wānanga O Kahukuranui

Building capacity and capability in the reo and tikanga of the kaenga.

Key Mahi:

Development of a tribal and fully immersive form of teaching and education in our mātauranga- a- hapū, reo, tikanga and kawa.
Development of Te Reo and Tikanga Revitalization/Restoration Strategy for the hapū.
Supporting the tribal life of our uri and the mahi of te Paepae o Kahukuranui.

Te Ngakina O Rēnata Kawepō

Enabling the flourishing of tribal life.

Key Mahi:

Matariki ki Omahu, Renata Kawepō Weekend etc.
Strategy for embedding cultural influence across our kaenga and takiwā.
Cultural opportunities for the gathering of the Hapū.
Development of cultural kaupapa that build the vision of Rēnata Kawepō for a community of aroha, manaakitanga and auahatanga.

We would like to invite uri who would like to be recorded and interviewed to share and preserve tribal memory and mātauranga to get in touch with us.