Turamarama ki te ora National Youth Suicide Prevention Conference

Ngāti Pikiao

Sunday May 24 – Tuesday May 26

Tangatarua Marae Waiariki Institute of Technology & Holiday Inn Hotel Rotorua

Whakaohooho Mauri : The Re-awakening Indigenous Spirit

Waireti(Michelle Roestenburg)

Te Amokura Centre for Wholeness and Total Wellbeingwww.Teamokura.nz

• Pre Wānanga State•

Unknown

Disconnection•  • Post Wānanga State• Wholeness Hurt Reconnection Known • Oneness Colonisation

Disconnection•  • Figure 1. Pre – post wānanga relationship to the original condition

of wholeness and to colonisation.

Māori Vitality Original Trauma Healing Recovery OngoingVitality Vitality

Psychological Resilience

• Trauma Wound Healing Recovery

• That I knew nothing of my small Cherokee and Osage background when I began the journey will act, I hope, as a clarion call to all of Native America's "lost children" -- all of us with even a drop of Indian blood who were raised, monolingual English speakers, in cities and otherwise apart from tribal influence -- to follow your family's stories, find the Native within, and reconnect as soon as possible with your ancestral tribes; they'll probably be more accepting of you than you've imagined, so long as your heart is loving and respectful, and your mind open.

• Nurturing a Faint Call in the Blood: A Linguist Encounters Languages of Ancient America

• Dan Moonhawk Alford (CIIS, JFKU, CSUH)• In ‘Revision Cambridge Mass’, Fall 2002, Vol25, Issue2, p.23-33.

It is “the positive embracing of identity which is the driving force of the current regeneration of

Māori culture”Ranginui Walker (1989, P. 50).

Positive identity = driving force…cultural regeneration

1. What is the driving force of Māori identities?

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“Compared to the presence of our tupuna, the white intrusion in Aotearoa is but a blink in the eternity of time” (Awatere, 1982, p.29).

• That I knew nothing of my small Cherokee and Osage background when I began the journey will act, I hope, as a clarion call to all of Native America's "lost children" -- all of us with even a drop of Indian blood who were raised, monolingual English speakers, in cities and otherwise apart from tribal influence -- to follow your family's stories, find the Native within, and reconnect as soon as possible with your ancestral tribes; they'll probably be more accepting of you than you've imagined, so long as your heart is loving and respectful, and your mind open.

• Nurturing a Faint Call in the Blood: A Linguist Encounters Languages of Ancient America

• Dan Moonhawk Alford (CIIS, JFKU, CSUH)• In ‘Revision Cambridge Mass’, Fall 2002, Vol25, Issue2, p.23-33.

It is “the positive embracing of identity which is the driving force of the current regeneration of

Māori culture”Ranginui Walker (1989, P. 50).

Positive identity = driving force…cultural regeneration

1. What is the driving force of Māori identities?

Ka whati te tī Ka wana te tī

Ka rito te tī

Te Tī – The Life-Course of Māori and Indigenous Resilience/Vitalities

Ka whati te tī Ka wana te tī

Ka rito te tī

Ngā ToaTupuna PapaTupuna WhaeaWhaeaMokopunaPuna – TupunaThe landscpae of the whānau(Nadida Glavich, 2011)

Trauma – Ground breaking rupture

Silence – The Post-Trauma Trauma – RuptureConspiracy of silence (Danieli, 1984)