Colonization & implicit bias: Kāhui Ako engagement with Ngāti Waewae in Te Tai
Poutini – reflecting on our cultural dispositions in the context of this place
A presentation by Dr Richard Manning
(UC College of Education, Health & Human Development)
“Lest we forget”: Why don’t we know
“We cannot help but think that the unsettled state of relations between Māori and
Pākehā in this country is in part due to the fact that these stories are remembered
only by tangata whenua and a few historians who specialize in New Zealand
history.
While only one sides remembers the suffering of the past, dialogue will always be
difficult. One Side commences the dialogue with anger and the other side has no
idea why. Reconciliation cannot be achieved by this means.
Thus it seems no more than common sense that if stories such as these, from
Tūranga, were more widely known in the community, particularly local
communities more directly affected, the need to heal the wounds of the past
before moving forward would be better understood by all.”
Waitangi Tribunal, Tūranganui a Kiwa Report (2004: p. 740).
Schooling the World: What is
‘schooling?’ What is ‘education?’
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSIgZWNR9M
Bronfenbrenner’s (1989) Ecology of Human Development
Chronosystem = History
Macrosystem
Exosystem
Mesosystem
Microsystem
Me & my grandad: Exploring my
own ethnicity to better
appreciate Ngāti Waewae
aspirations – some reflections on
the legacy of the Irish influence
on “the Coast”
An Gorta Mór (the Great Famine): An ‘environmental
disaster’ or genocide that changed our world?
“All the lonely people; where did they all come from?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV8cXNd
cHYo
“I have often said, and written, it is
famine which must consume [the
Irish]; our swords and other
endeavours work not that speedy
effect which is expected for their
overthrow.”
- English Viceroy Arthur
Chichester writing to Elizabeth I's
chief advisor, Nov. 1601
“The judgement of God sent the calamity
[i.e. crop failure] to teach the Irish a
lesson, that calamity must not be too
much mitigated. …The real evil with which
we have to contend is not the physical evil
of the famine, but the moral evil of the
selfish, perverse and turbulent character of
the people”.
Charles Trevelyan, head of
administration for famine relief, 1840s
“Ireland is like a half-starved
rat that crosses the path of an
elephant. What must the
elephant do? Squelch it - by
heavens - squelch it.”
- Thomas Carlyle, British
essayist, 1840s
An Gorta Mór/The great hunger:
St Otteran’s Cemetary, Port Lairge
Colonization: What’s your family’s experience of colonization?
What is Ngāti Waewae’s experience?
(What treaty & why?)
“We cannot help but think that the unsettled state of relations between Māori and
Pākehā in this country is in part due to the fact that these stories are remembered
only by tangata whenua and a few historians who specialize in New Zealand history.
While only one sides remembers the suffering of the past, dialogue will always be
difficult. One Side commences the dialogue with anger and the other side has no
idea why. Reconciliation cannot be achieved by this means.
Thus it seems no more than common sense that if stories such as these, from
Tūranga, were more widely known in the community, particularly local communities
more directly affected, the need to heal the wounds of the past before moving
forward would be better understood by all.”
Waitangi Tribunal, Tūranganui a Kiwa Report (2004: p. 740).