the Hine Ngākau
Who are we?
The HINE NGĀKAU is an evolving creative framework nurtured by a collective of wāhine Māori, takataapui, and queer kare mā - who are or have been settlers of the UNCEDED lands of the Kulin Nations.
Collectively we create LEARNING experiences for and with our community to connect deeply to themselves and each other so that we may be an example of TINO RANGATIRATANGA and accomplices of CARE, and PROTECTION for the self-sovereignty of Traditional Owners & Country too.
Becoming a member of our creative collective, means you are calling in the invitation for reciprocal learning, to learn and grow with the Hine Ngākau kaupapa and to have and wield tools to REMATRIATE.
Our framework
How do we do our do?
Tuatahi, much of what we are establishing within our framework is our place. What is our place as settlers of unceded lands and is it our place?
We operate within a traffic light system - if its not a green light, as in we haven’t been directly called to contribute, then it’s not our place and we whakatā.
It is our place however to understand our privileges as settlers, and to educate our own. We bridge worlds between spirit and physical. Between the mind and whenua. We do this through wānanga/conversation, ritenga/ritual and pūrea/renewal or in other words, we learn,
unlearn & relearn.
Tuarua, the second part of our kaupapa is to understand tikanga Māori from a decolonial and Atua Wāhine worldview - This to us is rematriation.
Tuatoru, the third part of our framework is how we weave together, strong, for 5 generations deep - through creativity.
This site is merely a means to connect digitally but to build in small pockets of community, offline.
What we cover
What will we learn together?
te Reo & Tikanga Māori
We facilitate conversation to better understand tapu & noa. Sharing how to observe tikanga, seek understanding and offer clarity.
We support those revitalising their reo by acknowledging intergenerational language trauma.
moving Mauri/Ritenga
We learn to move mauri - moving stagnant energy, and weave together other worldviews, ways of being & disabilities.
We ritual. We create.
Karakia/Waiata/Tangihanga
We learn to respond to signs of suffering
(co-regulation).
We waiata, and karakia and tangi and ritual together.
Maramataka
We learn to remember & respond to cycles in the taiao/natural environment and wānanga pūrākau to know our Atua and ourselves more intimately.
Bees, birds and māra are our tuakana who teach us food sovereignty and land back.
Māreikura
We nurture tools of the whare tangata, pūmotomoto, the puku and the ngākau (our creative portals) within a decolonial & Indigenous matriarchal worldview.
We platform the unspoken experiences of our Māreikura, Ruāhine & Takataapui.
Iwi Taketake
We create waharoa/entry points to learn and tautoko Indigenous kaupapa and communities as accomplices.
We reSTory* the narratives in our communities that erase Traditional Land Owners culture and sovereignty.
We acknowledge we are teina to First Peoples.