𝐊𝐮𝐢𝐚 𝐎𝐢 𝐖ā𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚

Te Rōpū Pounanao o Ngāti Awa wānanga kei Moutohorā.

25 Oketopa, 2024

𝐊𝐮𝐢𝐚 𝐎𝐢 𝐖ā𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 – 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 2, 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐞 𝐌ā𝐧𝐮𝐤𝐚 𝐓ū𝐭𝐚𝐡𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐞, 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐭ā𝐧𝐞.

Nau mai, haere mai ngā uri o Ngāti Awa.

Are you keen to learn about the revitalization of a cultural practice that is specific to Ngāti Awa?

Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa, with the support of Te Rōpū Pounanao o Ngāti Awa, is hosting this year’s Kuia Oi Harvest wānanga on Saturday, November 2, and all Ngāti Awa uri are invited to attend to learn about harvesting of the manu from Moutōhora. Register here for the wānanga.

If you are keen on being a kainanao and helping with the harvest then the pounanao are keen to share the opportunity that was given to them and provide a pathway to becoming the next reanga of kaitiaki. As a result, they are keen to develop their teams with kaitiaki who will support te mahi o te Taiao into the future. Therefore, if you want to be a kainanao at this year’s harvest, and a kaitiaki for future opportunities, then please reach out to your most appropriate pounanao and make your interest known:

· Hakopa Tarau – Ngāi Taiwhakaea

· Dallas Cole – Ngāti Hokopū/Te Wharepaia

· Vince Shortland – Te Patuwai

· Pukz Ratema – Rangitāiki

· John Eruera – Rangitāiki

· Genesis O’Sullivan – Ngāti Pūkeko

· Rapata Kopae - General

And this year, anyone who may want to be part of the kaihuhuti and processing the manu then please indicate your interest to Pou Huhuti: Kylie Wharewera.

The Ngāti Awa cultural practice of harvesting Kuia - otherwise known as Oi or the Grey-Faced Petrel - from Moutōhora Island was halted in the late 1950s. In 2012, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa initiated a project to revitalize the traditional practice and knowledge of the tribe’s cultural harvest of Kuia on Moutōhora. The kaupapa was set up to ensure the survival of Ngāti Awa Kuia Harvesting techniques by placing uri with Kaumātua who harvested Kuia on Moutōhora in their youth, thereby transferring the knowledge.

Following the revitalization of the Kuia Harvest in 2012, the focus of the 2013 harvest was to establish a core group of harvesters to become specialists in these practices and techniques. This group has now become the pounanao, who are responsible for leading the annual Kuia Harvest, and they will be at the Kuia Oi Harvest wānanga to share their knowledge.

The day will begin at 11am at Te Mānuka Tūtahi Marae with a whakatau and is set to take place over four hours.

All Ngāti Awa uri are welcome to attend. To register for the wānanga, please follow the link and fill out the form.

However, while there has been a tikanga in the past, which outlines that if you want to attend the harvest then you must attend the wānanga. This year, we want to be very clear that attending the wānanga isn’t necessarily the only condition to be able participate in the harvest. However, it is a good opportunity to share in the mātauranga related to this cultural practice.

Once again, if you are keen on being a kainanao and helping with the harvest then the pounanao are keen to share the opportunity that was given to them and provide a pathway to becoming the next reanga of kaitiaki. As a result, they are keen to develop their teams with kaitiaki who will support te mahi o te Taiao into the future. Therefore, if you want to be a kainanao at this year’s harvest, and a kaitiaki for future opportunities, then please reach out to your most appropriate pounanao and make your interest known: