August 23, 2016
Maori stories sought for online journal
A special edition of a long-running online journal is being hailed as a way for Maori and other indigenous peoples to tell their own stories and work out their own solutions.
Responsibility for producing a Healing Our Spirit Worldwide edition of the Canada-based Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing, rebranded as Te Mauri Pimatisiwin, was handed over to Maori health workforce development organisation Te Rau Matatini last November.
Chief executive Marama Parore says it’s part of the build up to the next Healing Our Spirit indigenous conference in Sydney in 2018.
She says it’s important to share perspectives on issues such as suicide with other indigenous peoples.
"To deal with what's happening in Northland with our whanau and suicide, suicide prevention is not working up there, and clearly whanau need to be given the ability to create their own solutions, so the journal really is about us saying here are solutions we have tried in Te Kao, in Rotorua, in Otautahi, whanau can trial parts of it in their own rohe," Ms Parore says.
The current and previous editions of the Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing Te Mauri – Pimatisiwin can be viewed online at: http://journalindigenouswellbeing.com/category/volume/issue1/
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