Kia Māori 24/7

The 2012 Te Aho Summit focused on how this community can enhance the prospects for survival of Maori as a people through an intiative for this takiwa, Kia Māori 24/7: 2040. This Hui identified a number of activities that were illustrative of ways in which Maori in the takiwa could choose to organise themselves to enhance the progress of Maori toward Kia Māori 24/7:2040.

Particular attention is given to:

  • Deepening and extending Whakatupuranga Rua Mano – Generation 2000
  • Applying the Whakatupuranga Rua Mano experiences in language revival to the next 28 years
  • Empowering whānau with kaupapa centred services
  • Marae hosting and accommodating visitors of the world
  • How the Tumeke group and other Māori in the takiwā celebrate iwi diversity
  • Planning for the wellbeing of Te Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai with kaupapa-tikanga frameworks
  • Maara kai contributions to whānau and community self sustainability
  • The 47 hapū/iwi and other rōpū of Ngāti Raukawa working to contribute positively to iwi wellbeing, including to rangatahi wellbeing through employment and training
  • A kaupapa based model for whānau, hapū and iwi to develop registers of taonga tuku iho over which they hold tino rangatiratanga
  • Addressing tension between tino rangatiratanga and kāwanatanga

2040: Kia Māori 24/7 extends the journey of the Whakatupuranga Rua Mano experiment beyond the ART Confederation to include all Māori living between the Ngāti Toarangatira maunga Whitireia to the Rangitikei River in the north.

The 2006 census told us that there were 44,862 residents living between Porirua and Rangitikei who identified as Māori, of these, 5,334 identified their main affiliation with Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga.

For most, the pathway to Kia Māori can be identified by six phases of understanding that progress us from passive participation with limited expressions of kaupapa to someone who is Kia Māori 24/7:

  • Becoming aware of the distinctiveness of Māori
  • Actively participating in expressions of kaupapa and feeling the enrichment and satisfaction that comes from those expressions
  • Learning more about kaupapa and becoming aware of the Kia Māori challenge
  •  Understanding how kaupapa and tikanga contribute to the survival of Māori as a people distinctive from all other peoples in the global community
  • Comprehension and application of a theory of Māori to teach others
  • Thinking, speaking, behaving as Māori in all that we do – Kia Māori 24/7 : 2040!