A hui-wānanga bringing together Taranaki kai-rangahau starts this weekend at Ōwae Marae in Waitara.
Te One Kakara is a Māori symposium developed in Taranaki with the purpose of incorporating rohe, iwi, and waka narratives into research methodologies.
One of the lead organizers, Professor Leonie Pihama from Tu Tama Wahine o Taranaki, says that tikanga and te reo ground wider Māori research, redefining the decolonization of research methods.
“What we’re seeing around the motu now is another kind of element of that work of in terms of the projects of research that we want to do, and that decolonizing methodologies is not just about removing that kind of colonial obsession with us, but it’s also about embedding our own mātauranga ā whanau, ā hapu, ā iwi,” says Pihama.
Keynote speakers at Te One Kakara include Dr. Ruakere Hond, Ngaropi Raumati, Professor Leonie Pihama, and Dr. Rawiri Tinirau.
