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The voices of kaumātua during the COVID-19 pandemic

Article type
Journal article
Key words
kaumātua
COVID-19
tikanga
Community
resilience
Ngāti Whakaue
Author(s)
Teorongonui Josie Keelan
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Linda Waimarie Nikora
Kiri Edge
Karyn Okra McRae
DOI
10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.2.5

Giving voice to kaumātua perspectives and experiences, and those of older people in general, during the COVID-19 pandemic has been rare because older people are more often spoken about than provided with opportunities to speak for themselves. When they have been spoken about, the focus has been on their vulnerability. While such vulnerabilities are a critical concern, this focus ignored their active participation in and contributions to their communities.

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CLOAKED IN LIFE AND DEATH: Korowai, kaitiaki and tangihanga

Key words
Māori
kaitiaki
korowai
taonga tuku iho
tangihanga
tūpāpaku
Author(s)
Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Linda Waimarie Nikora
Start page
50
End page
60

Indigenous New Zealand Māori have maintained many customs evident in our pre-contact histories and, ever-pragmatic, we allowed and continue to allow for the introduction and infl uence of contemporary ideologies and objects of signifi cance. In te ao Māori, our world, such objects include taonga tuku iho, treasures from the past handed down to us. Our taonga are revered repositories that can reveal much about their owners, those owner's families, and the histories of our people, preceding and subsequent. Their tangible presence is often subtle, yet their social signifi cance can be historically and culturally far-reaching, movingly evocative and even controversial.

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MAI_Journal_V1,1_MalcolmBuchanan_etal.pdf
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