{"id":1712,"date":"2024-07-17T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2024-07-17T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:20:02","slug":"te-tumu-scholar-part-of-kahui-kairuruku-the-national-hautapu-for-matariki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumu-scholar-part-of-kahui-kairuruku-the-national-hautapu-for-matariki\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu scholar part of K\u0101hui Kairuruku the national Hautapu for Matariki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ko Kare Tipa t\u014dku ikoa, my ancestry comes from many hap\u016b of K\u0101i Tahu iwi: (K\u0101ti Ruahikihiki, K\u0101ti H\u0101teatea,K\u0101i Te Aotaumarewa, Hinematua, K\u0101i Tuke,\u00a0 K\u0101ti Huirapa, K\u0101ti Raki\u0101moa, K\u0101i Tuahuriri, K\u0101ti Hinemihi, K\u0101ti Wairaki, K\u0101ti Urihia On Friday 28 June I was honoured to be part of the K\u0101hui Kairuruku, a collective of language and cultural practitioners that delivered 13 karakia as part of the national Hautapu ceremony held 2,008m above sea level, adjacent to the mighty ranges of K\u0101 Tiritiri O Te Moana, on a pituresque mountain widely known as Treble Cone. Matariki allows us to reflect on wh\u0101nau and experiences at a time when we welcome the new year. It is also a time to farewell the old, the past year gone.<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0 appropriate to hold the hautapu ceremony in W\u0101naka.\u00a0 M\u0101ori history tells of W\u0101naka where early iwi, in particular \u2018Waitaha\u2019, assembled for learning of tribal lore. W\u0101naka is K\u0101i tahu alternative form of the word \u2018w\u0101nanga\u2019 referring to the ancient schools of learning. The area boasts of rocky alpines,\u00a0 tussock foliage and lakes dug out from the eponymous ancestor R\u0101kaihaut\u016b. From the ski field on Treble Cone, one is able to feast eyes on the visible features of the land, the aesthetic appeal formed by the digging stick of R\u0101kaihaut\u016b. Lakes dug out in Te Waipounamu are known as K\u0101 Puna Karikari a R\u0101kaihat\u016b (the springs of water dug by R\u0101kaihaut\u016b).<\/p>\n

From ancestoral acts of the past to what is experienced today, K\u0101ti Ruahikihiki descandants (the kairuruku for the hautapu) are made up primarily of young language assailants raised in the K\u0101i Tahu language revitalisation strategy: Kotahi Mano K\u0101ika (KMK). KMK leads the charge to reinvigorate our language within K\u0101i Tahu homes and communities. It is a 25 year old strategy which aims to have at least 1000 K\u0101i Tahu k\u0101ika speaking te reo M\u0101ori by 2025.<\/p>\n

As a practitioner, I have been both a beneficiary of and contributor to KMK. My children and grandson are part of the collective to revitalise and change the narrative with language normalisation here in Te Waipounamu. To be apart of the collective with our young adults is a tremendous highlight for me as a h\u0101kui in the strategy.\u00a0 The Hautapu ceremony is shared with a different iwi annually, this recent ceremony is historical for K\u0101i Tahu, it highlights the language strategy in action alive and vibrant, it sets a precedence of first language speakers who can conduct formal tikaka in te reo. I may not be here to stand with this collective when the Hautapu returns to K\u0101i Tahu iwi in the future, but I\u2019m proud to have had this moment of standing with first language speakers adding to the histories of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ko Kare Tipa t\u014dku ikoa, my ancestry comes from many hap\u016b of K\u0101i Tahu iwi: (K\u0101ti Ruahikihiki, K\u0101ti H\u0101teatea,K\u0101i Te Aotaumarewa, Hinematua, K\u0101i Tuke,\u00a0 K\u0101ti Huirapa, K\u0101ti Raki\u0101moa, K\u0101i Tuahuriri, K\u0101ti Hinemihi, K\u0101ti Wairaki, K\u0101ti Urihia On Friday 28 June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47253,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85084,85083,45164,35284,85082,85085,85081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language-revitalisation-2","category-research","category-research-news","category-staff-profile","category-te-kete-aronui","category-te-reo-maori-2","category-university-of-otago"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}