LEWIS WILLIAMS, PHD

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path. I leave you with the words of Ngāi Te Rangi, Kuia Ngaroimata Cavill which perhaps speak to the realization of this vision: Kei te kite atu ahau i tetahi taha oku ; E tu mai ana me te mohio ano e pai ana tana tu I see a part of me over there – but I know he is safe where he stands 28
Appendix A Beginnings This small scale research project arose from my desire to get to know my Ngāi Te Rangi, roots better. Since 2003 I had been intermittently meeting with kuia Maria Ngatai as one means of doing this. At her suggestion along with my family I also attended the whanau reunion for the descendants of Ruawahine Puhi and John Lees Faulkner in 2004. This was a watershed for me, as it was the beginning of my realization that I was part of a much larger Ngāi Te Rangi, whanau. At the beginning of 2009, I decided to devote some time to getting to know the Ngāi Te Rangi, part of myself in 2009. Given that one of my areas of interest is human ecology, I decided to draft up a small scale research project that might contribute towards a human ecology book I was editing at the time as well as providing me with a structured way in which to learn more about my Ngāi Te Rangi, roots. The project, I decided would centre around the elders’ perspectives on who Ngāi Te Rangi, is as a community (incorporating the dimensions of land, ancestors and the world of spirit), might inform the field of human ecology, which has traditionally come from a very Eurocentric and mechanistic philosophical base. Recruitment of participants and refinement of research questions However the project began to take on a new shape once I had arrived in Tauranga; in conversation with Aunty Maria one day she suggested that as part of getting to know who I was and who Ngāi Te Rangi, is, I needed to know who Mauao is. Quite synchronistically, around the same time, I also learned from Paora Stanely, Ngāi Te Rangi, Runanga office, of a project being under taken by Tommy Wilson to publish a book about Mauao as a way of communicating with local Tauranga iwi and other groups, of the significance of this wonderful maunga. It became clear during the course of our conversations that each project might enhance the other, if I was to focus my research ‚who is Ngāi Te Rangi,‛ around mauao. 29
Page 1 and 2: Mauao June 2010 Ngaroimata Cavill,
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Page 5 and 6: The Patupaiarehe hauled the nameles
Page 7 and 8: Te Waka Mauao is a taonga which has
Page 9 and 10: Tākitimu The Tākitimu Waka, carry
Page 11 and 12: Ngāi Te Rangi, have fought hard fo
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Page 15 and 16: meeting with John Balance, minister
Page 17 and 18: Ngai Tukairangi marae, the Whareroa
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Page 21 and 22: More change comes to Tauranga Moana
Page 23 and 24: The elders share a number of perspe
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Page 27: For Maria Ngatai the future lies in
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