Te Mauri o te Wai Internship Overview Kurt Grayson (University of Auckland, Ngāti Porou) My project investigated different approaches to Wai Māori in order to look after its mauri, and in turn, to look after us as people. Literature Findings Water Quality Our waterways have been classed as a clean...
Wanakia Heather-Kingi (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Raukawa) During my time with Toi Tangata I have learned a lot about how I can apply a whakapapa Māori lens to my research topic through the application of mātauranga Māori. This has been an important start for me going...
Tena koutou kātoa. I have just completed a 10 week internship with Toi Tangata where I have been researching the whakapapa, ingoa Māori, and purpose of the essential elements (pūmotu) to inform oranga kai, oranga tinana. It has been an interesting and enjoyable topic of research....
Enoka Wehi (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki , Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Te Whakatōhea me Ngāi Tūhoe) I am from a small settlement known as Whāngārā, approximately 35km north of Gisborne on the beautiful East Coast. Whāngārā is my slice of paradise. I finished high school at Ngā Puna...
Tenā tātou katoa. Ko Enoka Wehi tōku ingoa.My kaupapa for this internship project was to investigate how tikanga Māori integrated into kori tinana increases Māori participation in hauora, and where hauora fits within these selected taonga tuku iho in the future. The projects we were...
Growing the Puna is a workforce development approach to help grow the Māori health and disability workforce by exposing Māori tertiary students to Māori approaches to kori tinana and kai oranga within our communities. Toi Tangata’s Growing the Puna internship programme has successfully been able...
Ko Bree McCauley Scott tēnei Ko Taranaki me Hikurangi ōku Maunga Ko Waitara me Rangitāiki ōku Awa Ko Mātaatua tōku Waka Ko Ngāi Tūhoe me Te Āti Awa ōku Iwi Ko Bree McCauley Scott ahau I tēnei o ngā wā kei taku tau whakamutunga ahau ki Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki...
By Te Rua Munro Te Rua Munro presents his research findings at The Toi Tangata Hui ā Tau 2020 My project for the six-week internship at Toi Tangata was to research and apply the Atua Matua framework in an everyday setting. I based my project around Mahuika, the atua...
By Aotea Frandi Growing The Puna Interns 2019-2020L-R:Aotea Frandi, Tereana Ihakara, Te Rua Munro. My role in my internship with Toi Tangata was to help explore the possibility of a tuakana-teina relationship between rangatahi and current health kaimahi. This mahi is aimed at rangatahi taking ownership of...
Tereana Ihakara presenting at Hui ā Tau, Napier, Feb 2020. Kei ngā huruhuru, kei ngā waewae o te kaupapa, tēnā rā tātou katoa. Ko te wehi tuatahi ki a Īhoa o ngā mano, te tīmatanga o te whakaaro nui, te whakaotinga o ngā mea katoa. Ko...