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- Title: Insights into kaupapa Māori: Kaitiakitanga
- Description: This videos explores Kaitiakitanga.
- Video Duration: 4 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/772284689?h=1b389e72bb
- Transcript: English What is kaitiakitanga? Kaitiakitanga is looking after people. It’s taking care of our stories used amongst us today. It's protecting things like our tikanga
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What is kaitiakitanga? Kaitiakitanga is looking after people. It’s taking care of our stories used amongst us today. It's protecting things like our tikanga, our whakapapa and tūrangawaewae. There are many roles for the kaitiaki. We hear that the kaitiaki should protect Papatūānuku and treasures like our rivers, the seas, all those things. But kaitiaki, what is that? What is kaitiakitanga as it affects our children? Who are they looking after? What is kaitiakitanga as it affects our teachers?
Most often, kaitiakitanga is associated with the environment alone, alone, but we all know it's much more, the whole world. In every context we find kaitiakitanga there.
I think that when we start to think about the enactment of kaitiakitanga, that it is an active space, it’s not passive. That when we take responsibility for the guardianship over something, then that's an active role. What are we doing if we're, I don't know, in climate change, I guess? What does that mean in terms of my responsibility to be able to see that I am fundamentally in a relationship with the world, the changing world? I am in a reciprocal relationship. So what I do has an effect or an impact not only on people, but on place, on wairua, on all of those sorts of things. So it is a requirement for me to think consciously about action and reaction, that my actions have a reaction in the context in which I work. And so, yeah, for me, I think that it's about seeing ourselves in relationship again with those multiple spaces.
And taking responsibility for it. Every child will have a responsibility not just for themselves but for the whole class. You know, you have a role to play so you have to play it. Play it well and look after what you've got, you know. Preserve what you got, it's a taonga. And do your best. Because if you look after the taonga now, it'll be handed down. That'll be a tauira (example) for the next ones under you.
And can I just say that too, going back to if we've got Papatūānuku and we see Papatūānuku as our mother, not as a commodity, not as something I can buy, sell or exchange, then actually it fundamentally puts me in a position of a different relationship as I am nurturing my mother because I recognise that my mother also nurtures me. And that's what I mean in terms of that more complex notion of action and reaction. We don't sit outside and above the earth to manipulate it. We are part of it. And then kaitiakitanga occurs in that relationship.
Te Reo Māori
He aha tēnei te kaitiakitanga? Kaitiakitanga, he kai … tiaki i te tangata. He kaitiaki i wā tātou kōrero i mahia i waenganui i a tātou i tēnei rangi. Te kaitiaki o ngā āhuatanga pēnei i wā tātou tikanga, i wā tātou whakapapa, tūrangawaewae He nui ngā mahi mō te kaitiaki. Kei te rongo tātou ko te kaitiaki me tiaki i a Papatūānuku me tiaki i wā tātou taonga pēnei i wā tātou awa, te moana, ērā āhuatanga katoa. Engari ko te kaitiaki, he aha tērā? He aha te kaitiakitanga e pā ana ki wā tātou tamariki? Kei te tiaki rātou i a wai? He aha te kaitiakitanga e pā ana ki wā tātou kaiako?
Ko te nuinga o te wā ka noho te kaitiakitanga ki te taiao anake anake, engari mōhio ana tātou he maha, te ao katoa, i ngā horopaki katoa he kaitiakitanga ki reira.
Ki tāku, ka tīmata tātou ki te mahara mō te whakatinana o te kaitiakitanga ka kitea he wāhi ngangahau, ehara i te hāngū. Arā ka riro mā tātou e kaitiaki tētahi mea, he mahi ngangahau tērā. Kei te aha tātou mēnā, me kī pea, i roto i te āhuarangi hurihuri? He aha te tikanga o tērā e pā ana ki tōku nei haepapa kia taea ai te kite kei roto au i tētahi piringa whakapū ki te ao, ki te ao hurihuri? Kei roto au i tētahi piringa whakautuutu. Me te aha ko taku mahi e pā ana, kaua ki ngā tāngata anake, engari kē ki te takiwā, ki te wairua, ki erā momo āhuatanga katoa. Nō reira he herenga māku kia āta whakaaro mō ngā mahi me ngā uruparenga, arā he urupare ki āku mahi i roto i te horopaki e mahi nei au. Nō reira, āe, mōku ake, ko te kite anō i a tātou anō e whai hononga ana ki aua wāhi maha te take.
Me te kawe haepapa mōna. Kei ia tamaiti, kei ia tamaiti he haepapa. Kaua mō rātau anake, engari mō te akomanga katoa. E mōhio ana koe, he mahi māu, nō reira, me mahi, kia pai te mahi, ā, tiakina ō mea, e mōhio ana koe, rokirokia ō mea. He taonga, ā, kia pai katoa tāu mahi. Nā te mea, mēnā kei te tiaki koe i te taonga ināianei, ka tukuna ihotia. Ka noho tērā hei tauira mā ērā atu e whai ake nei i a koe.
Ā, ka taea e au te tāpiri atu, me te hokinga atu ki a Papatūānuku, ā, ka kite tātou i a Papatūānuku hei whaea mō tātou, kaua hei taonga hoko, kaua hei tētahi mea ka taea te hoko atu, hoko mai, tauhokohoko rānei ka noho pū au i tētahi piringa rerekē e poipoi ana au i tōku nei whaea nā te mea e mōhio ana au e poipoi ana hoki tōku whaea i a au. Ā, koinā tōku i whakaaro nei mō te ariā pīroiroi ake mō te mahi me te uruparenga. Kāore tātou e noho nei i waho, i runga hoki i te ao, whāwhā ai. He wāhanga tātou o tērā. Me te aha ka puta te kaitiakitanga i taua piringa.