Te Tiriti o Waitangi

MĀTAURANGA MĀORI AT THE OLYMPIC AND COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Article type: 
Journal article
Key words: 
Kaupapa Māori theory
mātauranga Māori
narrative inquiry
Olympic and Commonwealth games
sport
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Author(s): 
Bevan Erueti

Mātauranga Māori has become commonplace in international sport events involving New Zealand athletes and teams to create a national identity. The heart of this article examines the journey and implementation of mātauranga Māori into the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth games teams at Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010 and Delhi 2010. The experiences of one cultural advisor (referred to here as CA), who is also an ex-Olympian, are presented through an analysis that considers the principles of rangatiratanga and ōritetanga as advocated in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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TAKITORU: FROM PARALLEL TO PARTNERSHIP: A ritual of engagement based on Te Tiriti o Waitangi for implementing safe cultural prac

Key words: 
colonization
counselling
trauma
redress
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
decolonization
cultural safety
Author(s): 
Rawiri (David) Waretini Karena

Takitoru is a framework developed to support Māori counselling students to understand the impacts of historical intergenerational trauma across generations. The focus of this framework examines unseen contributing factors supporting deficit statistics that continue to dominate Māori communities. Essentially students are invited to participate and interpret personal genealogy in the context of colonisation to explore infl uences and effects.

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