1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:41,983 --> 00:00:43,360 — While I'm working on you, 4 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,529 if there are some places where I'm going too deeply, 5 00:00:46,529 --> 00:00:48,156 you just let me know. 6 00:00:48,156 --> 00:00:51,618 If it's bringing things up for you, you let me know. 7 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:53,620 — Yeah. 8 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:55,413 You're actually in control, 9 00:00:55,413 --> 00:00:57,457 although I'd like to think I am. 10 00:01:07,342 --> 00:01:09,636 I believe healing was always around us, 11 00:01:09,636 --> 00:01:11,846 no matter what age we were. 12 00:01:13,515 --> 00:01:15,433 I don't know how we understand it, 13 00:01:15,433 --> 00:01:17,018 but we lived it. 14 00:01:17,018 --> 00:01:18,561 Feel that one? 15 00:01:18,561 --> 00:01:20,313 — That one's okay. — Yeah? 16 00:01:20,313 --> 00:01:22,399 Even though it's holding? 17 00:01:22,399 --> 00:01:24,317 — That's fine. — Yeah. Cool. 18 00:01:26,569 --> 00:01:28,863 I don't know how we knew, 19 00:01:28,863 --> 00:01:31,491 but we just followed the examples. 20 00:01:33,076 --> 00:01:34,285 Breathe. 21 00:01:35,286 --> 00:01:38,623 As a young child, I can remember being told 22 00:01:39,082 --> 00:01:41,126 to put my hand on certain people 23 00:01:41,126 --> 00:01:43,294 and leave it in a certain space, 24 00:01:43,837 --> 00:01:47,090 and then they would say, "Oh, I can feel it coming through." 25 00:01:48,341 --> 00:01:50,593 Whatever guidance that was, 26 00:01:50,593 --> 00:01:52,846 it was just knowing. 27 00:01:55,473 --> 00:01:57,851 You alright? — Mhm. 28 00:01:57,851 --> 00:02:00,645 Au I tunei. My name is Atarangi. 29 00:02:29,215 --> 00:02:32,260 My first trauma, if you like, 30 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:33,814 was in the womb. 31 00:02:35,054 --> 00:02:38,892 When my mother was trying to birth me, 32 00:02:38,892 --> 00:02:40,929 it was a very difficult birth for her. 33 00:02:43,646 --> 00:02:45,857 And it was my grandmother, 34 00:02:45,857 --> 00:02:47,734 who helped me come through into this world. 35 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:49,903 Through her, 36 00:02:49,903 --> 00:02:52,363 that is the reason why I do what I do. 37 00:02:52,363 --> 00:02:53,948 No, no. Come, come, come. 38 00:02:54,532 --> 00:02:56,159 You are so beautiful pregnant. 39 00:02:57,994 --> 00:03:00,997 — Hi! Yes, I'm still pregnant. 40 00:03:00,997 --> 00:03:02,582 — So beautifully! 41 00:03:03,958 --> 00:03:05,710 — Kia ora. 42 00:03:05,710 --> 00:03:07,629 — Kia ora. 43 00:03:09,130 --> 00:03:10,799 Oh! 44 00:03:10,799 --> 00:03:12,300 — I don't know, everything just- 45 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:14,385 I'm just like something happened. 46 00:03:17,013 --> 00:03:18,515 — Um, I need, Manuka, 47 00:03:18,515 --> 00:03:20,225 can I have a roll up, please? 48 00:03:20,250 --> 00:03:23,953 I already know, prior to who's coming to the house, 49 00:03:23,978 --> 00:03:25,605 why they're coming. 50 00:03:25,605 --> 00:03:27,357 If they're coming with their ancestors, 51 00:03:27,357 --> 00:03:30,026 whether they have trauma in the womb, 52 00:03:30,026 --> 00:03:31,861 that all comes to me prior 53 00:03:31,861 --> 00:03:33,780 to people arriving. 54 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:35,949 Just gonna give a bit of a nudge. 55 00:03:37,408 --> 00:03:40,954 Right there! That's...shoulder. 56 00:03:40,954 --> 00:03:43,400 — Yeah, I can feel the head moving when you do that. 57 00:03:43,429 --> 00:03:44,471 — Yeah. 58 00:03:44,624 --> 00:03:47,710 I knew at 3 o'clock this morning, 59 00:03:47,710 --> 00:03:49,587 this baby was out of alignment, 60 00:03:50,338 --> 00:03:52,924 and my tummy was very painful on the left. 61 00:03:53,758 --> 00:03:55,426 That's how it comes to me. 62 00:03:55,426 --> 00:03:57,303 They come in my body. 63 00:03:57,303 --> 00:03:59,264 I get body-pain, severely. 64 00:03:59,264 --> 00:04:00,306 It's this side, eh? 65 00:04:00,306 --> 00:04:02,392 Patient: Yeah, it's, that's the sore side. 66 00:04:04,644 --> 00:04:05,645 Awhitia: Okay. 67 00:04:07,757 --> 00:04:09,371 Breathe. 68 00:04:10,316 --> 00:04:11,568 Kia ora. 69 00:04:11,568 --> 00:04:14,362 Ko Awhitia Mihaere toku ingoa, 70 00:04:14,362 --> 00:04:18,533 I am a descendant of Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungunu, 71 00:04:18,533 --> 00:04:20,159 television news, 72 00:04:20,159 --> 00:04:22,287 Tourists 73 00:04:22,287 --> 00:04:24,247 my mom's side. 74 00:04:24,247 --> 00:04:28,543 My father was with me I am Maniapoto, Rangitaane. 75 00:04:28,543 --> 00:04:31,087 That's where you all belong. 76 00:05:01,910 --> 00:05:05,121 Our ancestral, traditional way 77 00:05:05,121 --> 00:05:08,499 is that we are not separate from the environment. 78 00:05:14,589 --> 00:05:17,258 Because of colonization, we have separated ourselves 79 00:05:17,258 --> 00:05:19,510 from that ideology, 80 00:05:19,510 --> 00:05:21,095 from that way of being. 81 00:05:23,514 --> 00:05:26,267 It's shown itself to have 82 00:05:26,267 --> 00:05:29,771 huge impact on Mother Earth, 83 00:05:29,771 --> 00:05:31,439 and Father Sky, 84 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:33,816 and all the environmental children in between. 85 00:05:33,816 --> 00:05:37,070 Nature is suffering because of the behaviors of 86 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:39,572 the youngest born in that line. 87 00:05:41,407 --> 00:05:44,702 When we disengage from the environment, 88 00:05:44,702 --> 00:05:47,205 people get lost in their own darkness. 89 00:05:48,206 --> 00:05:50,500 Take your Christian or religion glasses off, 90 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,210 because I'm not talking about 91 00:05:52,210 --> 00:05:53,628 a religious thing. 92 00:05:54,963 --> 00:05:57,465 My God is that cloud drifting past, 93 00:05:57,465 --> 00:06:01,010 the grass is my God, the sea is my God. 94 00:06:01,010 --> 00:06:02,470 Feel more connected, 95 00:06:02,470 --> 00:06:05,390 not just to your human genealogy, 96 00:06:05,390 --> 00:06:07,558 but to your environmental genealogy. 97 00:06:18,736 --> 00:06:20,363 I grew up in this place, 98 00:06:20,363 --> 00:06:22,323 raised by my ancestors, 99 00:06:22,323 --> 00:06:23,700 by my grandparents, 100 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:25,118 speaking my native tongue. 101 00:06:25,118 --> 00:06:27,161 Learning about all the genealogies 102 00:06:27,161 --> 00:06:29,247 and the histories of the Tairawhiti, 103 00:06:29,247 --> 00:06:32,917 which equipped me in me life-journey as an artist 104 00:06:32,917 --> 00:06:36,587 and historian of education Māori, Māori knowledge. 105 00:06:36,587 --> 00:06:40,383 Hello, my name is Mark Kopua. Hello. 106 00:06:43,636 --> 00:06:46,180 When we talk about healing, it is Medicine. 107 00:06:48,766 --> 00:06:50,351 Remedy is about listening. 108 00:06:52,228 --> 00:06:55,606 The language has its own vibration and frequency. 109 00:06:58,026 --> 00:07:00,278 The island was a place where 110 00:07:00,278 --> 00:07:02,780 those healers that we hear, those priests, 111 00:07:02,780 --> 00:07:04,240 that's where they were taught. 112 00:07:04,949 --> 00:07:06,701 That was where my grandmother was 113 00:07:06,701 --> 00:07:08,995 was taught the art of Medicine. 114 00:07:11,998 --> 00:07:13,750 You can hear the cicadas... 115 00:07:16,335 --> 00:07:19,172 But before we go in, I'm just going to do a karakia for us, 116 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:20,631 to give us permission to go in. 117 00:07:38,691 --> 00:07:39,984 That's who we are. 118 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:42,361 Our job is to protect the nature. 119 00:07:42,361 --> 00:07:45,281 If we don't protect Te Taiao, 120 00:07:45,281 --> 00:07:46,949 Te Taiao won't protect us. 121 00:07:48,409 --> 00:07:49,994 It's in our genes because 122 00:07:49,994 --> 00:07:51,996 our great grandmother Te Horo, 123 00:07:51,996 --> 00:07:54,457 she was the healer of this whole area, 124 00:07:54,457 --> 00:07:56,667 and she was a blind queen. 125 00:07:57,460 --> 00:07:59,629 And she had a parrot that talked to her. 126 00:08:01,047 --> 00:08:02,465 And she was very powerful. 127 00:08:02,465 --> 00:08:04,675 During the epidemic flu that we had here 128 00:08:04,675 --> 00:08:06,594 that killed thousands of our people, 129 00:08:07,595 --> 00:08:09,972 most of them went to her and she healed them. 130 00:08:14,435 --> 00:08:17,563 And then she taught my other great grandmother then, 131 00:08:17,588 --> 00:08:19,999 so they started up teaching, 132 00:08:20,024 --> 00:08:21,400 those who wanted to learn. 133 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:26,364 My grandmother inherited that work of healing, 134 00:08:26,364 --> 00:08:28,282 and I was what they call, 135 00:08:28,282 --> 00:08:31,869 "the person that had to go out and get the plants." 136 00:08:33,079 --> 00:08:35,373 So she taught me as I was growing up 137 00:08:36,207 --> 00:08:38,292 Ko taku ingoa ko Tohe Ahipi. 138 00:08:42,421 --> 00:08:44,841 — Growing up here, I realized, 139 00:08:44,841 --> 00:08:47,552 that I wanted to be involved in 140 00:08:47,552 --> 00:08:49,720 healing from our Indigenous perspective. 141 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,432 And when I went home and spoke to my elders about that, 142 00:08:54,267 --> 00:08:56,018 one of the aunties turned around to me and said, 143 00:08:56,018 --> 00:08:57,728 "What do you want to do that for? 144 00:08:57,728 --> 00:09:00,439 Don't do that. Go be a real doctor. 145 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:02,233 That's where your future is." 146 00:09:03,317 --> 00:09:04,694 Ko Dona Kerridge ahau. 147 00:09:04,694 --> 00:09:07,822 I am of Māori and English descent, 148 00:09:07,822 --> 00:09:09,699 and I hail from a small community 149 00:09:09,699 --> 00:09:12,076 on the west coast of the North Island, 150 00:09:12,076 --> 00:09:14,495 Te Puaha o Waikato. Kia ora. 151 00:09:16,914 --> 00:09:18,916 All my aunts and uncles 152 00:09:18,916 --> 00:09:21,419 grew up in a time when it really wasn't 153 00:09:21,419 --> 00:09:23,171 the thing to be Māori. 154 00:09:23,171 --> 00:09:25,756 You know, they weren't allowed to speak it at school. 155 00:09:25,756 --> 00:09:26,883 And worse than that, 156 00:09:26,883 --> 00:09:30,344 they were actually chastised for speaking it. 157 00:09:30,344 --> 00:09:33,222 They suffered indignities that 158 00:09:34,849 --> 00:09:37,560 I don't really feel comfortable talking about, 159 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,562 because I don't think I can do justice. 160 00:09:40,021 --> 00:09:41,772 I can, I can feel 161 00:09:43,024 --> 00:09:44,150 the pain. 162 00:09:45,401 --> 00:09:47,486 And they didn't talk about it much. 163 00:09:47,486 --> 00:09:49,238 They didn't talk about it to us, 164 00:09:49,238 --> 00:09:51,157 but somehow we knew. 165 00:09:51,157 --> 00:09:53,075 — Notice how the Māori people greet each other 166 00:09:53,075 --> 00:09:55,161 when they meet by pressing noses. 167 00:09:55,161 --> 00:09:56,787 This greeting is called the Hongi. 168 00:09:56,787 --> 00:09:59,123 Of course, they don't live in this fashion nowadays. 169 00:10:06,589 --> 00:10:08,674 — For centuries, the Māori of New Zealand, 170 00:10:08,674 --> 00:10:10,843 developed a distinctive culture. 171 00:10:10,843 --> 00:10:12,970 — When the British came, everything changed. 172 00:10:13,971 --> 00:10:16,015 — This Māori boy is eating sunshine. 173 00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:18,517 He belongs to one of the proudest races on Earth. 174 00:10:18,517 --> 00:10:20,603 — For the first time in history, 175 00:10:20,603 --> 00:10:23,439 a reigning British monarch visits her Māori subjects. 176 00:10:26,984 --> 00:10:28,569 — There's a lot of trauma 177 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,031 that has happened to our people. 178 00:10:32,031 --> 00:10:34,575 The timeline is always here 179 00:10:34,575 --> 00:10:36,577 of the promises that they gave, 180 00:10:37,245 --> 00:10:39,789 and they switched it against us. 181 00:10:43,376 --> 00:10:46,587 — In 1840, the British made a deal 182 00:10:46,587 --> 00:10:49,048 with over 500 Māori chiefs, 183 00:10:49,048 --> 00:10:51,092 The Treaty of Waitangi. 184 00:10:52,385 --> 00:10:54,555 — My ancestor, Te Ruki Kawiti, 185 00:10:54,755 --> 00:10:57,014 said No, he would not sign the treaty. 186 00:10:57,014 --> 00:10:59,058 He said, "We can look after ourselves. 187 00:10:59,058 --> 00:11:01,435 Go away! Go back to wherever you come from." 188 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:05,147 He did, however, sign it in the end 189 00:11:05,147 --> 00:11:07,066 to save his people, his tribe. 190 00:11:08,234 --> 00:11:09,777 Or else they'd be wiped out. 191 00:11:10,569 --> 00:11:12,238 — Two versions of the treaty, 192 00:11:12,238 --> 00:11:13,990 were written, one in Māori, 193 00:11:13,990 --> 00:11:16,242 and one in English. 194 00:11:16,242 --> 00:11:18,703 The Māori copy promised our chiefs 195 00:11:18,703 --> 00:11:20,246 absolute authority 196 00:11:20,246 --> 00:11:23,374 over our own land and resources, 197 00:11:23,374 --> 00:11:25,626 while the English copy, 198 00:11:25,626 --> 00:11:27,837 gave all the rights and power 199 00:11:27,837 --> 00:11:30,506 of sovereignty to the Crown. 200 00:11:33,634 --> 00:11:36,220 And we're still seeing those effects to date. 201 00:11:36,971 --> 00:11:39,181 And the main pillars of those effects, 202 00:11:39,181 --> 00:11:42,226 are the loss of language, the loss of culture, 203 00:11:43,060 --> 00:11:44,770 and the loss of identity. 204 00:11:53,779 --> 00:11:55,197 — What I think 205 00:11:56,657 --> 00:11:59,702 colonialism and the intergenerational trauma 206 00:11:59,702 --> 00:12:02,663 that has come as a result of radical change 207 00:12:02,663 --> 00:12:05,458 imposed upon different populations, 208 00:12:05,458 --> 00:12:07,752 is a symptom of disconnection. 209 00:12:08,586 --> 00:12:10,463 Disconnecting from your own ways of 210 00:12:10,463 --> 00:12:12,048 knowing, doing, and being. 211 00:12:12,757 --> 00:12:14,467 That was the point, 212 00:12:14,467 --> 00:12:16,886 was to disconnect people 213 00:12:16,886 --> 00:12:18,095 from their power, 214 00:12:18,721 --> 00:12:21,265 so that they are more amenable 215 00:12:21,265 --> 00:12:24,060 to another way of knowing. 216 00:12:24,644 --> 00:12:26,145 — The children are growing up to be 217 00:12:26,145 --> 00:12:29,523 good citizens, managers of their own homes. 218 00:12:29,523 --> 00:12:31,150 Theirs is not a specialist training, 219 00:12:31,150 --> 00:12:33,152 but training for living. 220 00:12:33,152 --> 00:12:35,363 The Māori school children will be the educators 221 00:12:35,363 --> 00:12:36,989 of the new generations, 222 00:12:36,989 --> 00:12:39,241 in hygiene and home crafts. 223 00:12:41,744 --> 00:12:43,329 — The first schools that started here 224 00:12:43,329 --> 00:12:45,206 were called the Native Schools. 225 00:12:45,206 --> 00:12:46,499 We were the natives. 226 00:12:46,499 --> 00:12:48,376 Our grandparents were the natives. 227 00:12:49,418 --> 00:12:51,587 And you were not to speak Māori 228 00:12:52,630 --> 00:12:54,006 at the Native School. 229 00:12:55,216 --> 00:12:56,675 They brought religion in. 230 00:12:57,843 --> 00:13:00,513 And they were the worst land confiscators, 231 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:02,264 the missionaries. 232 00:13:02,264 --> 00:13:03,682 So what they did was they said, 233 00:13:03,682 --> 00:13:06,185 "Come over, we'll teach you how to pray, 234 00:13:06,185 --> 00:13:08,521 close your eyes and bow your head." 235 00:13:08,521 --> 00:13:10,272 So we closed our eyes and bowed our head. 236 00:13:10,272 --> 00:13:13,067 By the time we opened our eyes, our land was gone. 237 00:13:15,277 --> 00:13:18,572 — Through schools, they were able to 238 00:13:18,572 --> 00:13:20,658 wipe out 239 00:13:20,658 --> 00:13:22,743 the language, the culture, 240 00:13:22,743 --> 00:13:24,745 within one generation. 241 00:13:24,745 --> 00:13:27,415 — And then we are the next generation after, 242 00:13:27,415 --> 00:13:29,458 from natives they turned into Māori. 243 00:13:29,458 --> 00:13:31,127 So we became the Māori. 244 00:13:34,338 --> 00:13:35,506 — I don't know whether 245 00:13:35,506 --> 00:13:37,258 so much that I thought that I was Māori, 246 00:13:37,258 --> 00:13:39,468 but I knew that I was from these tribes. 247 00:13:41,512 --> 00:13:43,514 Māori, the word Māori, in its understanding, 248 00:13:43,514 --> 00:13:46,350 didn't come out as what I was. 249 00:13:47,852 --> 00:13:50,104 In my youth, the word Māori 250 00:13:50,104 --> 00:13:51,981 was used to mean "natural." 251 00:13:53,941 --> 00:13:55,818 Later on I learned 252 00:13:55,818 --> 00:13:57,820 that it was a colonized tool, 253 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:01,157 to put us into a little category and collective. 254 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:04,702 — Māori people, and I think, Indigenous people 255 00:14:04,702 --> 00:14:07,538 all over the world were assimilated, 256 00:14:07,538 --> 00:14:10,207 because what we call "the white man" 257 00:14:10,207 --> 00:14:12,543 wanted to phase out the 258 00:14:12,543 --> 00:14:15,171 tangata o te whenua, or "the people of the land". 259 00:14:16,464 --> 00:14:18,799 — You weren't allowed to pick herbs. 260 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:21,218 You weren't allowed to pick any of our Rongoā. 261 00:14:21,218 --> 00:14:22,344 — They banned 262 00:14:23,137 --> 00:14:25,556 what they called the Tohunga Suppression Act. 263 00:14:25,556 --> 00:14:26,974 1907. 264 00:14:26,974 --> 00:14:28,642 So if you were caught, 265 00:14:28,642 --> 00:14:30,019 practicing Rongoā, 266 00:14:31,145 --> 00:14:33,564 you would go to jail, you would be fined. 267 00:14:34,732 --> 00:14:36,859 Awhitia: So all of that got lost. 268 00:14:36,859 --> 00:14:39,361 Our knowledge was lost over centuries. 269 00:14:41,071 --> 00:14:43,866 — A lot of our healers decided 270 00:14:43,866 --> 00:14:45,784 to close off all the portals. 271 00:14:50,706 --> 00:14:52,791 And a lot of them went underground, 272 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:54,502 and took their knowledge with them. 273 00:14:55,711 --> 00:14:57,087 Some died with their knowledge, 274 00:14:58,255 --> 00:15:00,466 some continued to practice underground. 275 00:15:02,676 --> 00:15:05,346 — The government of the day, were chopping our trees 276 00:15:05,346 --> 00:15:08,891 to help overseas to build houses. 277 00:15:08,891 --> 00:15:11,560 And so we ended up suffering. 278 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:17,441 Māori have got the highest rate of health problems, 279 00:15:17,441 --> 00:15:20,653 but that's because they took all our Rongoā trees away. 280 00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:22,905 Like literal medicine, herbal trees. 281 00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:29,828 We weren't born with asthma. 282 00:15:30,704 --> 00:15:32,540 It had to come from the environment, 283 00:15:32,540 --> 00:15:33,916 from Te Taiao. 284 00:15:33,916 --> 00:15:36,418 And so to have all your trees and your Rongoā gone, 285 00:15:36,418 --> 00:15:39,004 was traumatic, especially for our people. 286 00:15:57,257 --> 00:15:59,191 — I don't feel it like an expert 287 00:15:59,191 --> 00:16:01,151 in the space of trauma, 288 00:16:01,652 --> 00:16:03,445 other than my own trauma. 289 00:16:06,365 --> 00:16:08,075 What happened? 290 00:16:11,704 --> 00:16:13,497 What worries me, 291 00:16:13,497 --> 00:16:15,791 it's as a Māori people, 292 00:16:15,791 --> 00:16:17,293 We're so disconnected, 293 00:16:17,293 --> 00:16:20,254 and we're trying really hard to reconnect, 294 00:16:20,254 --> 00:16:22,631 that sometimes we're doing more damage. 295 00:16:23,591 --> 00:16:26,594 When we're trying to understand the trauma, 296 00:16:26,594 --> 00:16:28,762 that our people have been through, 297 00:16:28,762 --> 00:16:30,764 the very word 'trauma' 298 00:16:32,099 --> 00:16:34,435 is building empires 299 00:16:35,978 --> 00:16:37,396 that I don't think we want. 300 00:16:39,023 --> 00:16:40,608 When we find... 301 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:44,486 terms, concepts, 302 00:16:44,486 --> 00:16:47,698 in the language that 303 00:16:47,698 --> 00:16:51,368 was the very reason for disconnecting 304 00:16:51,368 --> 00:16:55,456 my philosophical understanding of who I am, 305 00:16:56,165 --> 00:16:59,251 and the very impact of 306 00:16:59,251 --> 00:17:01,086 our people being raped, 307 00:17:01,086 --> 00:17:04,131 our land being taken... 308 00:17:05,049 --> 00:17:06,759 Because I can't narrate that 309 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,927 in my Indigenous language, 310 00:17:08,927 --> 00:17:12,181 I feel like what trauma does, 311 00:17:13,182 --> 00:17:15,643 is builds an empire, 312 00:17:15,643 --> 00:17:18,187 that promotes yet again, 313 00:17:18,187 --> 00:17:20,731 a neo-liberalistic way 314 00:17:20,731 --> 00:17:22,900 of commodifying 315 00:17:24,652 --> 00:17:26,195 our hurts, 316 00:17:26,195 --> 00:17:29,198 and using Western knowledge, 317 00:17:29,198 --> 00:17:32,409 to offer 318 00:17:32,409 --> 00:17:35,537 a therapeutic way to engage you, 319 00:17:35,537 --> 00:17:38,040 in overcoming your trauma. 320 00:17:44,546 --> 00:17:45,673 — A big part of it 321 00:17:47,508 --> 00:17:49,343 again comes back to disconnection. 322 00:17:49,343 --> 00:17:51,345 It feels like... 323 00:17:51,345 --> 00:17:52,513 somebody's... 324 00:17:53,722 --> 00:17:56,141 severing the umbilical cords of us all 325 00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:58,060 and we're starting to float... 326 00:17:59,061 --> 00:18:00,396 all over the place. 327 00:18:02,648 --> 00:18:04,900 — The historical injustices, 328 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:07,111 the process of colonization, 329 00:18:07,111 --> 00:18:10,030 has favored a Western knowledge system, 330 00:18:10,030 --> 00:18:12,241 so that we can help you 331 00:18:13,242 --> 00:18:15,327 almost with a sense of amnesia 332 00:18:15,327 --> 00:18:17,705 about what caused the pain 333 00:18:17,705 --> 00:18:18,997 in the first place. 334 00:18:19,873 --> 00:18:22,960 When you take a land away from my ancestors, 335 00:18:23,877 --> 00:18:27,673 and then you would heal us with your ways of knowing, 336 00:18:27,673 --> 00:18:31,010 not realizing that you took from us 337 00:18:31,010 --> 00:18:32,845 our ability 338 00:18:32,845 --> 00:18:36,432 to be able to thrive off our land, 339 00:18:36,432 --> 00:18:38,016 whom is our mother. 340 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,644 You took us from our mother, 341 00:18:40,644 --> 00:18:43,105 you took our mother from us, 342 00:18:43,105 --> 00:18:45,858 and we struggled to survive. 343 00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:48,235 Money was not our 344 00:18:48,235 --> 00:18:50,112 economic source 345 00:18:50,112 --> 00:18:52,072 of wealth and growth. 346 00:18:52,072 --> 00:18:55,409 It was the ability to have a relationship, 347 00:18:55,409 --> 00:18:58,954 with our land and our sky and our sea, 348 00:18:58,954 --> 00:19:00,539 and we lost that. 349 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,878 — You then saw children 350 00:19:05,878 --> 00:19:08,005 in the early 1900's, 351 00:19:08,005 --> 00:19:09,757 you know, turning to drugs, 352 00:19:09,757 --> 00:19:11,133 becoming homeless, 353 00:19:11,133 --> 00:19:13,719 because they weren't nurtured 354 00:19:13,719 --> 00:19:15,179 the way they were meant to. 355 00:19:27,858 --> 00:19:30,235 — I've been a drug and alcohol counselor for, 356 00:19:30,235 --> 00:19:31,779 for many years. 357 00:19:32,488 --> 00:19:34,948 I started up two rehab centers, 358 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,075 one for women and one for men. 359 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:40,537 But I said, before you even go into rehab, 360 00:19:40,537 --> 00:19:42,790 you've got to come and spend two weeks with me, 361 00:19:42,790 --> 00:19:44,041 in the bush. 362 00:19:52,466 --> 00:19:55,177 I'm sweating and detoxing your body, 363 00:19:55,177 --> 00:19:58,347 using all different types of medicine. 364 00:19:59,771 --> 00:20:01,614 And by the time the two weeks are up, 365 00:20:01,642 --> 00:20:03,143 they don't want to leave. 366 00:20:03,143 --> 00:20:05,020 But the reason I told them that 367 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:06,855 they needed to go to rehab 368 00:20:06,855 --> 00:20:09,149 was now that their mind is clear, 369 00:20:09,149 --> 00:20:12,736 to actually start the work to repair, 370 00:20:13,529 --> 00:20:14,863 what they have lost. 371 00:20:24,289 --> 00:20:26,834 Goes back to the way they were brought up. 372 00:20:26,834 --> 00:20:28,919 They will use alcohol, 373 00:20:28,919 --> 00:20:30,629 to get rid of the pain. 374 00:20:30,629 --> 00:20:32,339 But I said, you'll never get rid of the pain, 375 00:20:32,339 --> 00:20:34,800 it will come back a hundred times worse! 376 00:20:36,343 --> 00:20:37,886 This is the way you have to do it. 377 00:21:06,540 --> 00:21:08,750 I had a young gentleman, 378 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:11,169 who just got his custody of his boy, 379 00:21:11,169 --> 00:21:13,130 so he went to Auckland, 380 00:21:13,130 --> 00:21:14,923 he saw one of his friends across the street, 381 00:21:14,923 --> 00:21:16,466 he stopped his car and said to his boy, 382 00:21:16,466 --> 00:21:18,260 "Wait here for a minute. I won't be a minute. 383 00:21:18,260 --> 00:21:20,012 Just going to talk to this friend." 384 00:21:20,012 --> 00:21:22,014 So he went across and he talked to his friend. 385 00:21:23,181 --> 00:21:25,392 And then all he heard was, "Dad!" 386 00:21:25,392 --> 00:21:27,436 He turned around to see a truck go... 387 00:21:29,688 --> 00:21:32,858 He ran to his child, his child was in... had passed. 388 00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:42,701 So that guy 389 00:21:43,410 --> 00:21:46,163 spent close on seven years 390 00:21:46,163 --> 00:21:47,664 of that same memory, 391 00:21:50,083 --> 00:21:52,294 seeing that accident, 392 00:21:52,294 --> 00:21:53,837 seeing his boy. 393 00:21:53,837 --> 00:21:56,757 He'd go to the cemetery and he'd sleep in the cemetery, 394 00:21:56,757 --> 00:21:58,050 with this boy. 395 00:21:59,259 --> 00:22:00,427 And so... 396 00:22:02,304 --> 00:22:03,639 The rehab rang me and said to me 397 00:22:03,639 --> 00:22:05,223 he had run away, he had taken off. 398 00:22:06,224 --> 00:22:08,143 I said, "Wait there, I'll find him." 399 00:22:08,143 --> 00:22:10,020 I caught him walking the road. 400 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:12,564 So I took him to another healer. 401 00:22:12,564 --> 00:22:14,149 Me and the healer to work on him. 402 00:22:15,609 --> 00:22:17,736 And so we worked on him. 403 00:22:17,736 --> 00:22:20,030 And I said to him, "You need to let him go. 404 00:22:20,030 --> 00:22:22,324 You've held on to him 405 00:22:22,324 --> 00:22:23,700 for over seven years. 406 00:22:24,534 --> 00:22:26,954 And you've been having the same dreams. 407 00:22:26,954 --> 00:22:28,455 No matter what medicine 408 00:22:28,455 --> 00:22:30,874 the doctors have given you to try and knock you out, 409 00:22:32,542 --> 00:22:34,586 you can't, because that dream keeps coming back, 410 00:22:34,586 --> 00:22:36,630 coming back and seeing that accident. 411 00:22:36,630 --> 00:22:39,925 I said, "You need to let the boy go." 412 00:22:40,842 --> 00:22:44,638 So working with him all day and finally, he let it go. 413 00:22:45,430 --> 00:22:47,891 Hopped in my car and he said to me, "Can I sleep?" 414 00:22:47,891 --> 00:22:50,352 He slept for three days, in my car. 415 00:22:50,352 --> 00:22:51,853 I just let him sleep. 416 00:22:51,853 --> 00:22:53,605 He got up and he said to me, 417 00:22:54,439 --> 00:22:55,857 "I had this dream. 418 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,069 My boy was playing in the park." 419 00:22:59,069 --> 00:23:00,362 Big smile! 420 00:23:02,406 --> 00:23:04,324 And I said to him, "You're healed. 421 00:23:04,324 --> 00:23:06,159 You don't need to be here." 422 00:23:06,159 --> 00:23:08,870 And he said, "No, I want to be here. 423 00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:10,372 I want to help others." 424 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:12,499 So he stayed in rehab. 425 00:23:26,013 --> 00:23:29,057 — The goal for me in Rongoā Māori, 426 00:23:29,057 --> 00:23:33,937 is to lift the mana, the esteem, the power 427 00:23:33,937 --> 00:23:36,356 and the Mauri, the lifeforce 428 00:23:36,356 --> 00:23:38,608 of people in place. 429 00:23:38,608 --> 00:23:40,318 So not one in isolation, 430 00:23:40,318 --> 00:23:42,237 not people separate from the world, 431 00:23:42,237 --> 00:23:44,906 but the world, including people. 432 00:23:49,286 --> 00:23:50,954 — Take a deep breath. 433 00:23:53,206 --> 00:23:54,416 And let it go. 434 00:23:57,210 --> 00:23:59,087 — When we look at 435 00:23:59,087 --> 00:24:02,632 the way that animals use their senses, 436 00:24:02,632 --> 00:24:04,885 this way that our healers use their senses 437 00:24:04,885 --> 00:24:06,845 is actually no different to our siblings 438 00:24:06,845 --> 00:24:08,305 in the animal world. 439 00:24:10,057 --> 00:24:12,225 — You write everything. 440 00:24:12,225 --> 00:24:14,394 — Dominant? — Yeah. 441 00:24:15,645 --> 00:24:17,731 — We just lost them, 442 00:24:17,731 --> 00:24:20,192 and so they seem weird now, 443 00:24:20,192 --> 00:24:22,319 in a modern world, but they're not weird. 444 00:24:26,323 --> 00:24:28,784 — That's where you're sticking. 445 00:24:28,784 --> 00:24:29,785 — Mhm. 446 00:24:31,953 --> 00:24:35,540 — That just some of us have grown up with those around us, 447 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:37,209 those senses highly attuned. 448 00:24:37,209 --> 00:24:38,710 Not all of them at once, 449 00:24:38,710 --> 00:24:41,004 but maybe one more than the other. 450 00:24:41,004 --> 00:24:43,006 And we use that as a gift. 451 00:24:43,006 --> 00:24:45,509 We use that as a gift to help us in our work. 452 00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:50,847 — I hear the word "trauma," 453 00:24:50,847 --> 00:24:53,100 I don't understand it. 454 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,893 I don't see it in the body 455 00:24:54,893 --> 00:24:57,395 in the way that it's described. 456 00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:04,069 There's a smell that comes off a body. 457 00:25:09,658 --> 00:25:11,993 If we know how to smell the body, 458 00:25:11,993 --> 00:25:13,787 —and when I talk about smelling, 459 00:25:13,787 --> 00:25:17,332 I'm not talking about the physical odor of the body, 460 00:25:17,332 --> 00:25:20,752 I'm talking about the spiritual odor of the body— 461 00:25:21,795 --> 00:25:23,505 when we can smell that, 462 00:25:23,505 --> 00:25:25,549 you can... 463 00:25:25,549 --> 00:25:28,969 almost smell which organ it's coming from. 464 00:25:30,387 --> 00:25:31,847 If I know it's the liver, 465 00:25:31,847 --> 00:25:34,891 then there's work to be done behind the knees 466 00:25:34,891 --> 00:25:37,602 and at the back for the liver 467 00:25:37,602 --> 00:25:40,522 to... placate it, 468 00:25:40,522 --> 00:25:42,732 to make it peaceful. 469 00:25:44,067 --> 00:25:47,696 The liver is connected to the anger we hold in the body. 470 00:25:48,613 --> 00:25:52,492 So if that's a smell I get, then I know what to do. 471 00:25:53,577 --> 00:25:55,495 If it's the kidneys, 472 00:25:55,495 --> 00:25:58,206 then I'm looking at a different part of the body. 473 00:25:58,206 --> 00:26:01,168 We aren’t taught as children how to smell. 474 00:26:01,168 --> 00:26:03,670 We know it instinctively. 475 00:26:09,551 --> 00:26:11,261 I know no other way. 476 00:26:12,888 --> 00:26:14,472 It's not even a picture, 477 00:26:14,472 --> 00:26:17,184 it's not a judgment or a sense, 478 00:26:17,184 --> 00:26:18,643 I just know, 479 00:26:18,643 --> 00:26:21,104 and actually, we all do. 480 00:26:22,272 --> 00:26:25,192 You know how to smell someone who is ill. 481 00:26:25,192 --> 00:26:28,403 Someone who has cancer in the chest or the breast, 482 00:26:28,403 --> 00:26:30,405 their body exudes a smell. 483 00:26:30,405 --> 00:26:33,492 Everything has to do with the physicalness of here. 484 00:26:33,492 --> 00:26:36,828 Emotion never plays a part for me in the work, 485 00:26:36,828 --> 00:26:38,747 but it gets in the way. 486 00:26:41,541 --> 00:26:43,501 — I'm gonna hold this, 487 00:26:43,501 --> 00:26:46,004 until the lung lets go. 488 00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:48,131 — I don't see emotion. 489 00:26:48,131 --> 00:26:49,466 I know where it is 490 00:26:49,466 --> 00:26:51,343 and I know what they're doing. 491 00:26:51,343 --> 00:26:55,263 But my job is to align this, this and this 492 00:26:55,263 --> 00:26:57,974 and keep it strong 493 00:26:57,974 --> 00:26:59,351 and intact for them. 494 00:26:59,351 --> 00:27:00,560 When those are aligned, 495 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,063 the emotion won't have any way 496 00:27:03,063 --> 00:27:04,898 to interrupt them. 497 00:27:10,487 --> 00:27:12,614 — You're good? You can get up 498 00:27:12,614 --> 00:27:14,741 when you're ready, take your time. 499 00:27:14,741 --> 00:27:17,786 As soon as the egg, egg and the seed, 500 00:27:17,786 --> 00:27:20,080 as soon as they come together, 501 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,871 that's when we, as the human being we're going to be, 502 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:25,829 start to feel everything. 503 00:27:25,857 --> 00:27:26,920 We have a memory, 504 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,880 —and everybody thinks that's up here, 505 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,173 the memory's here— 506 00:27:30,173 --> 00:27:32,968 of everything we've experienced in life. 507 00:27:32,968 --> 00:27:37,472 And for those who are lucky enough or unlucky enough 508 00:27:37,472 --> 00:27:40,684 to remember past lives and future lives, 509 00:27:40,684 --> 00:27:43,853 that in itself can also be 510 00:27:43,853 --> 00:27:46,022 either a bonus, 511 00:27:46,022 --> 00:27:47,649 or a drain on them. 512 00:27:47,649 --> 00:27:48,817 — As soon as you started 513 00:27:48,817 --> 00:27:50,068 my jaw started quivering. 514 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:53,405 — I saw that, yeah. — And it still kind of is. 515 00:27:53,405 --> 00:27:55,365 — But that's your emotional release. 516 00:27:55,365 --> 00:27:58,785 Not everybody does it through the eyes and crying. 517 00:27:58,785 --> 00:28:01,162 We all have our own way. 518 00:28:01,162 --> 00:28:03,123 You're a stalwart, 519 00:28:03,148 --> 00:28:06,351 you have... truth, you know. 520 00:28:06,376 --> 00:28:08,003 Because you're a power 521 00:28:08,003 --> 00:28:10,422 and that's why you have to pass your knowledge on, 522 00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:12,132 and you have to do it fast. 523 00:28:18,555 --> 00:28:21,599 — There's so much in one human being, 524 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:25,395 to stop trauma from continuing in us and continuing, 525 00:28:25,395 --> 00:28:27,188 because it goes down lineal, 526 00:28:27,188 --> 00:28:29,899 back and ancestral and forward. 527 00:28:31,693 --> 00:28:34,237 We believe that's why we do a lot of our practices, 528 00:28:34,237 --> 00:28:35,989 that are always done on the womb, 529 00:28:35,989 --> 00:28:38,241 because it's where the source is. 530 00:28:38,241 --> 00:28:40,660 — I'm just gonna go down. I'm just gonna go down. 531 00:28:41,828 --> 00:28:43,705 Yeah. 532 00:28:43,705 --> 00:28:45,415 — Deep breath. 533 00:28:55,759 --> 00:28:57,218 — Keep going. 534 00:29:06,102 --> 00:29:08,063 — Good! — Ah! 535 00:29:15,528 --> 00:29:18,740 — How many pregnancies did you have? 536 00:29:22,744 --> 00:29:24,454 Atarangi: So you had—yeah, 537 00:29:24,454 --> 00:29:26,956 that's what I was asking. Okay. Cool. 538 00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:29,667 Before or after her? 539 00:29:31,628 --> 00:29:35,090 — Before. Was she directly after that? 540 00:29:43,890 --> 00:29:46,935 — So you're the daughter that 541 00:29:46,935 --> 00:29:49,437 was conceived after the, 542 00:29:49,437 --> 00:29:52,023 the one you lost, is she here? — Yeah. 543 00:29:52,023 --> 00:29:53,817 — I need to do her. — Yeah? 544 00:29:53,817 --> 00:29:55,693 — Because she's always thinking 545 00:29:55,693 --> 00:29:57,821 she's missing something. 546 00:30:03,910 --> 00:30:06,579 — What is in the organ is a cellular memory. 547 00:30:06,579 --> 00:30:08,456 That's the memory of the cells 548 00:30:08,456 --> 00:30:10,291 that have been connected to trauma, 549 00:30:10,291 --> 00:30:11,960 any kind of trauma. 550 00:30:17,841 --> 00:30:19,384 — Breathe it in with me. 551 00:30:20,427 --> 00:30:21,719 And breathe it up. 552 00:30:21,719 --> 00:30:23,513 Breathe it up. 553 00:30:23,513 --> 00:30:27,392 — And so my practice for looking after and healing the womb, 554 00:30:27,392 --> 00:30:31,062 is for those women who have lost their babies in the womb, 555 00:30:31,062 --> 00:30:33,000 who passed away in the womb. 556 00:30:33,029 --> 00:30:34,586 We realigned the kopu, 557 00:30:34,614 --> 00:30:36,818 take all of the cellular memory out of their trauma, 558 00:30:36,818 --> 00:30:39,446 that they've have just had, 559 00:30:39,446 --> 00:30:41,156 by losing baby in the womb. 560 00:30:41,156 --> 00:30:43,491 So, that the new baby can come in 561 00:30:43,491 --> 00:30:48,079 and not feel the trauma of the baby that was just passed. 562 00:31:00,258 --> 00:31:02,635 — The child doesn't understand, 563 00:31:02,635 --> 00:31:06,055 there's been something else in there before them, 564 00:31:06,055 --> 00:31:08,725 and they're always seeking 565 00:31:08,725 --> 00:31:11,811 that other energy, because it was there with them. 566 00:31:11,811 --> 00:31:14,439 All right. You feel that beat? Yeah. 567 00:31:15,982 --> 00:31:17,025 Okay. 568 00:31:18,610 --> 00:31:21,696 So, that's all right, just breathe. 569 00:31:22,071 --> 00:31:23,823 I'm going to just check. 570 00:31:29,412 --> 00:31:31,539 Don't try and control it. 571 00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:37,128 So the heartbeat that I'm picking up here, 572 00:31:37,128 --> 00:31:39,964 is different to the beat I'm picking here, 573 00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:41,508 I'm picking up here. 574 00:31:41,508 --> 00:31:44,135 This one does not belong here. 575 00:31:44,135 --> 00:31:45,762 You know that don't you? 576 00:31:45,762 --> 00:31:46,888 You know why? 577 00:31:47,430 --> 00:31:50,391 All right. Your mom will tell you later. 578 00:32:16,376 --> 00:32:19,837 — As children, we were told by our teachers 579 00:32:19,837 --> 00:32:23,049 to lie on our backs with our eyes closed 580 00:32:23,049 --> 00:32:25,176 and to concentrate on our breathing. 581 00:32:25,969 --> 00:32:28,054 And for 20 minutes, every day, 582 00:32:28,054 --> 00:32:31,599 we would recite lines from Mōteatea . 583 00:32:45,446 --> 00:32:47,490 In its most basic form, 584 00:32:47,490 --> 00:32:49,701 a Mōteatea is a chant, 585 00:32:49,701 --> 00:32:51,869 and probably the most 586 00:32:51,869 --> 00:32:55,248 archaic form of music to Māori culture, 587 00:32:55,248 --> 00:32:58,001 and was commonly used by our ancestors 588 00:32:58,001 --> 00:33:01,963 as a way of expressing their emotions and feelings, 589 00:33:01,963 --> 00:33:04,340 to events that may have just taken place. 590 00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:12,890 — A Mōteatea is a form of therapy, 591 00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,393 and was a form of therapy for our ancestors, 592 00:33:15,393 --> 00:33:17,770 where they were able to 593 00:33:17,770 --> 00:33:21,566 spell out those emotions, rather than harbor them. 594 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:23,443 Now, when we think of colonization, 595 00:33:23,443 --> 00:33:25,903 a lot of our Mōteatea weren't 596 00:33:25,903 --> 00:33:27,947 passed down to the next generation, 597 00:33:27,947 --> 00:33:30,366 because the language was beaten, 598 00:33:30,366 --> 00:33:33,161 literally beaten out of our ancestors. 599 00:33:43,171 --> 00:33:44,922 — We were beaten at school for 600 00:33:44,922 --> 00:33:48,676 speaking my language in the '70s, 601 00:33:48,676 --> 00:33:50,553 literally beaten. 602 00:33:51,721 --> 00:33:53,473 And...um... 603 00:33:54,974 --> 00:33:58,353 and then I was determined to make sure that 604 00:33:58,353 --> 00:33:59,979 my children would have 605 00:33:59,979 --> 00:34:01,856 the language given back to them. 606 00:34:02,523 --> 00:34:04,609 And so, we fought. 607 00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:08,279 — And it was our parents generation that 608 00:34:08,279 --> 00:34:12,283 finally discovered that that way of 609 00:34:12,283 --> 00:34:15,578 educating Māori children was not working. 610 00:34:15,578 --> 00:34:17,914 — My children were one of the first 611 00:34:18,748 --> 00:34:21,834 pioneers to be able to speak our language, 612 00:34:21,859 --> 00:34:25,443 to return our language back to our land. 613 00:34:45,483 --> 00:34:47,735 — A young person who is lost 614 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,406 because of colonization, because of urbanization, 615 00:34:51,406 --> 00:34:52,771 I think it's a great way 616 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,159 to introduce them to their ancestry. 617 00:34:56,035 --> 00:34:59,455 And to know that that ancestry right down to the Creation, 618 00:34:59,455 --> 00:35:01,999 right back to the Creation of the world, 619 00:35:01,999 --> 00:35:03,584 is as it is, 620 00:35:03,584 --> 00:35:05,670 is fabulous! 621 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:21,519 — My mother, who was, who is Doctor Cathy Dewes, 622 00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:24,313 one of the handful of leaders from the '80s, 623 00:35:24,313 --> 00:35:28,276 opened a school here on the shores of Rotorua, 624 00:35:28,276 --> 00:35:29,402 and she named the school 625 00:35:29,402 --> 00:35:31,446 Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ruamata, 626 00:35:31,446 --> 00:35:33,906 which is where I spent the first 627 00:35:33,906 --> 00:35:35,491 18 years of my life. 628 00:35:35,491 --> 00:35:38,494 And it was only the second school of its type 629 00:35:38,494 --> 00:35:39,746 at the time. 630 00:36:02,796 --> 00:36:03,657 — Te Kura Kaupapa Māori, 631 00:36:03,686 --> 00:36:05,646 or total immersion Māori schooling, 632 00:36:05,646 --> 00:36:07,940 has to be done totally in Māori. 633 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:09,609 The school encourages 634 00:36:09,609 --> 00:36:11,986 parents to speak Māori at home, 635 00:36:11,986 --> 00:36:13,613 as well as school. 636 00:36:13,613 --> 00:36:15,364 We have a saying here, 637 00:36:17,617 --> 00:36:19,786 "Where a school should be as a home, 638 00:36:19,786 --> 00:36:21,412 and a home should be as a school." 639 00:36:33,674 --> 00:36:36,969 We combine the two worlds of our students, 640 00:36:36,969 --> 00:36:38,471 the home and the school, 641 00:36:38,471 --> 00:36:40,890 and basically, the whole environment 642 00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:42,475 growing up becomes one. 643 00:36:48,523 --> 00:36:51,567 — Everything that that young person is experiencing, 644 00:36:51,567 --> 00:36:53,694 our ancestors have experienced. 645 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,157 In the stories is a blueprint 646 00:36:58,157 --> 00:37:00,743 about how to deal 647 00:37:01,702 --> 00:37:04,330 with just certain types of distress, 648 00:37:04,357 --> 00:37:06,900 that they are also experiencing. 649 00:37:09,335 --> 00:37:12,004 And so, you expose these young people, 650 00:37:12,004 --> 00:37:14,590 who are lost, in a sense, 651 00:37:14,590 --> 00:37:18,344 to that, and that allows them to find 652 00:37:18,344 --> 00:37:20,429 the path that suits them. 653 00:37:21,472 --> 00:37:23,015 — You know what, we're gonna start from the start! 654 00:37:24,058 --> 00:37:25,685 — It's all about Mauri too. 655 00:37:25,685 --> 00:37:27,186 You can't just go "phsshh" harmony. 656 00:37:41,576 --> 00:37:43,786 — I didn't do well in school. 657 00:37:44,662 --> 00:37:46,247 I was a teenage mum, 658 00:37:46,247 --> 00:37:48,207 and it was at a time 659 00:37:48,207 --> 00:37:51,335 where to be Māori, and to be a young mum 660 00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:53,671 had purpose, had meaning. 661 00:37:53,671 --> 00:37:55,423 I could offer them something. 662 00:37:55,423 --> 00:37:56,757 Yeah, it's, yes. 663 00:37:56,757 --> 00:37:57,758 Beautiful phrasing! 664 00:38:06,726 --> 00:38:10,146 — See, Māori clinical psychologists can't sing. 665 00:38:11,188 --> 00:38:14,775 I don't think I wanted to go down a pathway of psychiatry. 666 00:38:14,775 --> 00:38:17,278 I wanted to protest 667 00:38:17,278 --> 00:38:18,946 against racism. 668 00:38:18,946 --> 00:38:21,240 I wanted to fight for my right 669 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,826 to exist as a Māori. 670 00:38:24,118 --> 00:38:27,747 I wanted distress to be seen, 671 00:38:27,747 --> 00:38:29,874 without being diagnosed. 672 00:38:29,874 --> 00:38:32,752 I wanted to do away with criteria 673 00:38:32,752 --> 00:38:34,462 for people to access 674 00:38:34,462 --> 00:38:37,089 authentic, meaningful help. 675 00:38:37,381 --> 00:38:39,467 And I wanted to be proud 676 00:38:39,467 --> 00:38:42,303 of our culture as Māori. 677 00:38:50,186 --> 00:38:52,104 And I did a Māori course 678 00:38:52,104 --> 00:38:54,106 and learned my language, 679 00:38:54,106 --> 00:38:56,525 and it was the year that I learned about 680 00:38:56,525 --> 00:38:59,487 our Creation stories, and I was a baby in them, 681 00:38:59,487 --> 00:39:02,365 like I knew about five or seven of them, 682 00:39:02,365 --> 00:39:04,242 but I was gonna try! 683 00:39:04,242 --> 00:39:08,037 — I'm hoping, if we secure funding... 684 00:39:08,037 --> 00:39:09,664 — So when I met Mark... 685 00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:12,708 Oh my gosh, he knew like a thousand of them. 686 00:39:13,042 --> 00:39:16,462 And I remember asking him on a Facebook text like, 687 00:39:16,462 --> 00:39:19,757 "Do you know much about our Creation stories?" 688 00:39:19,757 --> 00:39:21,676 I didn't know he was a Tohunga. 689 00:39:21,676 --> 00:39:23,177 I didn't know 690 00:39:23,177 --> 00:39:25,554 that he was a walking encyclopedia. 691 00:39:25,554 --> 00:39:28,891 All I knew was that there was this man interested in me. 692 00:39:40,611 --> 00:39:43,406 — There are many, many Pūrākau 693 00:39:43,406 --> 00:39:45,908 or stories that we can use 694 00:39:45,908 --> 00:39:47,868 depending on whatever circumstance 695 00:39:47,868 --> 00:39:49,996 in the now we are experiencing. 696 00:39:53,582 --> 00:39:55,835 We use those stories to help people 697 00:39:55,835 --> 00:39:57,837 familiarize themselves 698 00:39:57,837 --> 00:39:59,547 with not just their genealogy, 699 00:39:59,547 --> 00:40:02,883 but they feel huge compassion towards their ancestor 700 00:40:02,883 --> 00:40:04,969 who went through this emotional injury. 701 00:40:04,969 --> 00:40:06,512 But not only that, they— 702 00:40:06,512 --> 00:40:07,972 it resonates with them because 703 00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:09,265 they're going through the same thing. 704 00:40:16,397 --> 00:40:19,734 — Nice... 705 00:40:19,759 --> 00:40:20,876 It was pretty good! 706 00:40:20,901 --> 00:40:22,820 — Find a room! — You'll find a room. 707 00:40:24,655 --> 00:40:27,158 — The tears of their ancestors became the stars, 708 00:40:27,158 --> 00:40:28,951 the moon and the sun, 709 00:40:28,951 --> 00:40:32,621 that provided light for everybody else. 710 00:40:42,256 --> 00:40:44,133 — What Mahi a Atua is about, 711 00:40:44,133 --> 00:40:47,762 is thinking about Māori knowledge. 712 00:40:48,304 --> 00:40:51,057 The way that we understand and experience 713 00:40:51,057 --> 00:40:53,309 the Universe from a Māori perspective. 714 00:40:53,976 --> 00:40:56,353 How do we operationalize 715 00:40:56,353 --> 00:40:57,980 all of that knowledge? 716 00:40:58,522 --> 00:41:00,816 — All of those three Atua, 717 00:41:00,816 --> 00:41:05,571 (speaking Māori language) 718 00:41:05,571 --> 00:41:07,698 worked as a collective. 719 00:41:07,698 --> 00:41:10,076 — How do we make sense of a Māori story, 720 00:41:10,076 --> 00:41:12,078 a Creation story 721 00:41:12,078 --> 00:41:13,788 in a healing space? 722 00:41:13,788 --> 00:41:17,041 And we term that Mahi a Atua 723 00:41:17,041 --> 00:41:19,585 and it's really ancestral healing. 724 00:41:19,585 --> 00:41:22,379 — The daughter had said, 725 00:41:22,379 --> 00:41:23,714 I've already got four kids, 726 00:41:23,714 --> 00:41:25,382 it was like having a fifth child! 727 00:41:26,926 --> 00:41:30,137 We train people to practice 728 00:41:30,137 --> 00:41:31,764 this way of thinking 729 00:41:31,764 --> 00:41:35,267 and this way of understanding your existence in this world. 730 00:41:36,602 --> 00:41:39,438 And in order for them to maintain 731 00:41:39,438 --> 00:41:41,398 that way of being, 732 00:41:41,398 --> 00:41:42,817 we have three principles. 733 00:42:04,588 --> 00:42:06,423 So, the first one 734 00:42:06,423 --> 00:42:08,050 in our language is 735 00:42:08,050 --> 00:42:09,718 Tēnei te Pō Nau mai te Ao, 736 00:42:09,718 --> 00:42:13,597 which translates to "indigenize your spaces," 737 00:42:13,597 --> 00:42:15,891 not just your environment around you, 738 00:42:15,891 --> 00:42:17,560 but also internally. 739 00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:22,064 Rather than decolonizing yourself, 740 00:42:22,064 --> 00:42:24,108 indigenize yourself. 741 00:42:26,235 --> 00:42:27,945 The second one in our language is 742 00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:30,823 Ka mate ariki ka mate tauira. 743 00:42:32,533 --> 00:42:35,077 And that means to forever being 744 00:42:35,077 --> 00:42:37,121 inquisitive and be a learner. 745 00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:41,041 Whenever you go into a situation, 746 00:42:41,041 --> 00:42:42,877 go with empty baskets, 747 00:42:42,877 --> 00:42:45,921 so that you can get those people that you're with, 748 00:42:45,921 --> 00:42:47,673 to fill your basket up. 749 00:42:50,843 --> 00:42:52,469 Seek balance. 750 00:42:55,681 --> 00:42:58,559 The last principle is the hardest one. 751 00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:00,686 In our language it is 752 00:43:00,686 --> 00:43:02,188 Hongi Hongi te wheiwheia, 753 00:43:02,188 --> 00:43:03,981 which translated means 754 00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:06,358 to "inhale the unusual." 755 00:43:07,234 --> 00:43:09,862 What we're talking about is a culture of feedback. 756 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,908 And predominantly negative feedback. 757 00:43:13,908 --> 00:43:16,660 Not feedback to destroy somebody. 758 00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:20,539 It is a feedback to create collective growth. 759 00:43:29,298 --> 00:43:31,091 — Just knowing who we are, 760 00:43:31,091 --> 00:43:32,718 where we come from, 761 00:43:32,718 --> 00:43:35,346 knowing the stories of our ancestors, 762 00:43:36,263 --> 00:43:40,017 and trying to reclaim those stories as our own, 763 00:43:40,017 --> 00:43:43,103 and I think that can 764 00:43:43,103 --> 00:43:45,564 bind a lot of the trauma, 765 00:43:46,732 --> 00:43:49,985 that has been passed down from generation to generation. 766 00:43:59,411 --> 00:44:02,039 — And I think, we're at a time now, as Māori people, 767 00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:03,332 we are happy to 768 00:44:04,208 --> 00:44:06,377 embrace what happened to our ancestors. 769 00:44:11,632 --> 00:44:14,218 We know that Māori were a strong people, 770 00:44:15,094 --> 00:44:17,346 and we were wrong-done by 771 00:44:17,346 --> 00:44:19,139 the government of New Zealand. 772 00:44:19,139 --> 00:44:21,934 And we have the tools, I think, 773 00:44:21,934 --> 00:44:24,311 I think we have the tools now to heal ourselves. 774 00:44:38,284 --> 00:44:41,620 Each Mōteatea holds an energy, 775 00:44:41,620 --> 00:44:44,164 a vibration, our story 776 00:44:44,164 --> 00:44:46,792 that can benefit 777 00:44:46,792 --> 00:44:49,211 us as their descendants. 778 00:44:53,132 --> 00:44:56,218 I was at university in 2009, 779 00:44:56,218 --> 00:44:59,263 and I came across, just by chance, 780 00:44:59,263 --> 00:45:03,559 the lament that my ancestors, Hinemoa wrote 781 00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:08,772 at the passing of her beloved husband Tutanekai. 782 00:45:12,651 --> 00:45:14,987 — And I couldn't believe my eyes because 783 00:45:14,987 --> 00:45:16,947 I had grown up on 784 00:45:16,947 --> 00:45:19,533 the love story of Hinemoa Tutanekai, 785 00:45:19,533 --> 00:45:22,161 however, the lament that she wrote captures 786 00:45:22,161 --> 00:45:24,955 a different side to the story, that it wasn't quite 787 00:45:24,955 --> 00:45:26,665 a fairy tale as we thought. 788 00:45:26,665 --> 00:45:29,877 The anguish and the sadness that is expressed 789 00:45:29,877 --> 00:45:31,879 in the words of Hinemoa. 790 00:45:36,633 --> 00:45:39,011 I brought them back to my elders and asked them, 791 00:45:39,011 --> 00:45:42,473 "Do you know the tune to this Mōteatea?" 792 00:45:42,473 --> 00:45:43,932 And nobody knew, 793 00:45:43,932 --> 00:45:46,352 because it had been lost for so long. 794 00:45:49,271 --> 00:45:52,066 I firmly believe that Mōteatea are the window 795 00:45:52,066 --> 00:45:54,193 to the world of our ancestors, 796 00:45:54,193 --> 00:45:56,904 the way of living their language, 797 00:45:56,904 --> 00:45:59,323 customs and the people of the time, 798 00:45:59,323 --> 00:46:02,534 and the raw emotion at the time of composition. 799 00:46:26,809 --> 00:46:30,521 Kapa Haka itself is now an important part 800 00:46:30,521 --> 00:46:33,399 of the revitalization of 801 00:46:33,399 --> 00:46:35,359 our language and our culture, 802 00:46:35,359 --> 00:46:38,070 because so many Māori 803 00:46:38,070 --> 00:46:39,947 participate in Kapa Haka. 804 00:46:39,947 --> 00:46:43,534 I mean, there are almost 2,000 performers 805 00:46:43,534 --> 00:46:46,912 attending, participating in the upcoming 806 00:46:46,912 --> 00:46:49,248 Te Matatini competition, National competition. 807 00:46:49,248 --> 00:46:52,418 So 2,000 performers and we're expecting over 808 00:46:52,418 --> 00:46:54,670 50,000 audience members. 809 00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:58,173 — ...change, yeah? — Yeah! 810 00:46:59,341 --> 00:47:02,886 Not (speaking Māori language), again. 811 00:47:02,886 --> 00:47:05,347 — I'm the head tutor of 812 00:47:05,347 --> 00:47:07,224 Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue. 813 00:47:07,224 --> 00:47:09,768 Now I've been Head tutor 814 00:47:09,768 --> 00:47:11,603 for seven years now, 815 00:47:11,603 --> 00:47:13,730 and this will only be our second Nationals. 816 00:47:24,908 --> 00:47:26,869 — We've been practicing now for 817 00:47:26,869 --> 00:47:28,954 about six months for this competition. 818 00:47:28,954 --> 00:47:30,330 We've put the program together. 819 00:47:30,330 --> 00:47:31,915 We've taught it to our group. 820 00:47:31,915 --> 00:47:33,917 We've picked our best performers, 821 00:47:33,917 --> 00:47:36,879 in the hope that we make the finals, 822 00:47:36,879 --> 00:47:40,507 because it's something our tribe has never done before. 823 00:47:40,507 --> 00:47:42,426 But that's what we're aiming for. 824 00:47:45,554 --> 00:47:48,515 Kapa Haka is modeled 825 00:47:48,515 --> 00:47:50,559 from the protocols 826 00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:52,311 of a welcoming ceremony. 827 00:47:52,311 --> 00:47:55,689 The Mōteatea is one of the key customs 828 00:47:55,689 --> 00:47:57,649 of that welcoming ceremony. 829 00:47:58,525 --> 00:48:01,111 So that's where Mōteatea fits in with Kapa Haka. 830 00:48:01,111 --> 00:48:03,405 I think it's a vessel, 831 00:48:03,405 --> 00:48:05,824 or a vehicle 832 00:48:05,824 --> 00:48:08,994 in delivering the language, the culture 833 00:48:08,994 --> 00:48:11,580 and our customs to our people. 834 00:48:23,175 --> 00:48:26,053 — You two gotta get off your feet. 835 00:48:26,053 --> 00:48:28,138 Change! 836 00:49:17,646 --> 00:49:19,273 — For me, one of the things 837 00:49:19,273 --> 00:49:21,984 about Rongoā or healing 838 00:49:21,984 --> 00:49:24,403 is that we can come in at it 839 00:49:24,403 --> 00:49:26,655 from multiple perspectives. 840 00:49:26,655 --> 00:49:29,408 We'll see people that work really proficiently 841 00:49:29,408 --> 00:49:31,076 with plant medicines. 842 00:49:31,076 --> 00:49:33,579 We'll see people that work really proficiently 843 00:49:33,579 --> 00:49:35,706 in terms of bodywork. 844 00:49:38,750 --> 00:49:40,168 We'll see people 845 00:49:40,168 --> 00:49:42,796 who use things like Haka. 846 00:49:42,796 --> 00:49:45,841 They have their way of bringing about healing 847 00:49:45,841 --> 00:49:47,467 through that medium. 848 00:49:47,467 --> 00:49:49,553 We will see through our arts. 849 00:50:20,083 --> 00:50:21,460 Kia ora tatou. 850 00:50:26,673 --> 00:50:28,592 When we talk about healing, 851 00:50:28,592 --> 00:50:30,010 Karakia, 852 00:50:31,053 --> 00:50:33,930 is a healing, is a role. 853 00:50:37,476 --> 00:50:39,811 — Karakia is often translated as "prayer." 854 00:50:40,646 --> 00:50:43,398 I personally don't subscribe to that because, 855 00:50:43,398 --> 00:50:46,652 you know, I learned prayer in a Christian context. 856 00:50:46,652 --> 00:50:48,570 — They're not called prayers. 857 00:50:48,570 --> 00:50:49,946 They're called Takutaku. 858 00:50:51,406 --> 00:50:55,160 It's a chant from the old, the old ways. 859 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:58,330 And that chant, in that chant, is what they call 860 00:50:58,330 --> 00:51:00,666 the vibration and frequency. 861 00:51:01,333 --> 00:51:02,709 We tap into that. 862 00:51:02,709 --> 00:51:05,587 — You know, Karakia helps us disconnect from the things 863 00:51:05,587 --> 00:51:07,506 that busy the mind and the heart. 864 00:51:07,506 --> 00:51:10,967 So that when we need to hear the voices of our ancestors 865 00:51:10,967 --> 00:51:13,970 and the advice and the direction of our ancestors, 866 00:51:13,970 --> 00:51:17,265 Karakia can help open those channels. 867 00:51:17,265 --> 00:51:20,435 — People can heal by just doing Karakia. 868 00:51:49,756 --> 00:51:52,050 — There are whole different levels of teaching. 869 00:51:52,643 --> 00:51:55,900 So there's the learning of Karakia, 870 00:51:55,929 --> 00:51:56,972 your Whakapapa. 871 00:51:59,766 --> 00:52:02,477 — Whakapapa, your genealogy, 872 00:52:02,477 --> 00:52:04,896 right back to the Creator. 873 00:52:04,896 --> 00:52:06,440 — Then there's another level, 874 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,359 the art of doing Tā moko. 875 00:52:12,946 --> 00:52:15,907 — Moko, which is a Māori tattoo, 876 00:52:15,907 --> 00:52:18,577 culturally restricted to Māori people 877 00:52:18,577 --> 00:52:20,579 or people of Māori heritage. 878 00:52:25,625 --> 00:52:27,335 — This is what we call a Mataora. 879 00:52:28,044 --> 00:52:30,172 Before you can get this, 880 00:52:30,172 --> 00:52:32,174 you have to do all this, 881 00:52:32,174 --> 00:52:33,467 right up to your back, 882 00:52:34,426 --> 00:52:36,970 before you're allowed to have this on your face. 883 00:52:39,806 --> 00:52:42,768 — They're tools for us to use to connect us. 884 00:52:43,393 --> 00:52:45,854 Māori people want to feel this assurance 885 00:52:45,854 --> 00:52:47,731 that the ancestry is with them. 886 00:52:47,731 --> 00:52:51,026 — Every person would have a different design, 887 00:52:51,026 --> 00:52:53,862 which meant something that they had to do. 888 00:52:55,989 --> 00:52:57,949 — And in our history, 889 00:52:57,949 --> 00:53:01,036 our ancestors that did navigate across the oceans, 890 00:53:01,036 --> 00:53:03,538 they had star clusters tattooed on their backs. 891 00:53:04,748 --> 00:53:06,792 So that the navigator could look at some— 892 00:53:06,792 --> 00:53:09,002 one of the crew's back, 893 00:53:09,002 --> 00:53:10,587 and understand: "Right, 894 00:53:11,463 --> 00:53:13,089 there's bad weather in the direction 895 00:53:13,089 --> 00:53:14,633 that we should be going, 896 00:53:14,633 --> 00:53:18,512 this chart, that's tattooed on a man's back, 897 00:53:18,512 --> 00:53:21,139 tells me, we have an option to go this way." 898 00:53:23,642 --> 00:53:25,477 — The world works in many different ways. 899 00:53:28,188 --> 00:53:30,315 Next one is the art of medicine. 900 00:53:38,198 --> 00:53:41,701 All the plants have their own medicinal purpose, 901 00:53:41,701 --> 00:53:42,786 everything. 902 00:53:50,710 --> 00:53:53,129 So if I have to go into the forest to get a plant, 903 00:53:54,589 --> 00:53:56,716 then I must acknowledge the forest, 904 00:53:56,716 --> 00:53:58,760 and ask for permission to go in. 905 00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:00,971 Then when I do find the plant that I need, 906 00:54:00,971 --> 00:54:04,808 I'll also ask that plant, "Can I have you? 907 00:54:04,808 --> 00:54:06,518 And the reason why I need you." 908 00:54:06,518 --> 00:54:10,063 Plus, the leaves tell you, what are they good for. 909 00:54:10,063 --> 00:54:11,898 It's the shape of your lungs, 910 00:54:11,898 --> 00:54:13,567 the shape of your— 911 00:54:13,567 --> 00:54:15,443 the kawa kawa, shape of your heart. 912 00:54:16,403 --> 00:54:17,779 Then you know it's for your heart. 913 00:54:17,779 --> 00:54:20,282 They've already told us who they are, 914 00:54:20,282 --> 00:54:21,491 and what they're good for. 915 00:54:21,491 --> 00:54:23,743 — We call, I call it the language of the Ngahere, 916 00:54:23,743 --> 00:54:25,036 the language of the forest. 917 00:54:25,036 --> 00:54:27,080 And when you learn that language, 918 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,583 you can go anywhere in the world. 919 00:54:29,583 --> 00:54:33,044 And you can share in their knowledge. 920 00:54:35,755 --> 00:54:37,591 — The trees have their own feelings, 921 00:54:37,591 --> 00:54:39,718 they have their own vibration and frequency. 922 00:54:39,718 --> 00:54:41,469 They have their own souls. 923 00:54:41,469 --> 00:54:43,096 Part of the work that I do, 924 00:54:43,096 --> 00:54:46,141 it's about healing our Native. 925 00:54:46,141 --> 00:54:47,767 So we have the kauri. 926 00:54:49,102 --> 00:54:50,770 The kauri is dying, 927 00:54:50,770 --> 00:54:53,356 from this bug that's in the water, 928 00:54:53,356 --> 00:54:54,816 that goes up, 929 00:54:55,901 --> 00:54:58,445 and it goes to the heart of the tree and kills the tree. 930 00:54:59,988 --> 00:55:02,866 So we have a story, we call it a Pūrākau, 931 00:55:02,866 --> 00:55:05,410 —a Pūrākau is a story, that's been handed down 932 00:55:05,410 --> 00:55:06,912 through the generations— 933 00:55:06,912 --> 00:55:08,580 where they talk about that the whale, 934 00:55:08,580 --> 00:55:10,165 is a brother to the kauri. 935 00:55:10,165 --> 00:55:13,084 — The kauri, the coat that was given to the kauri, 936 00:55:13,084 --> 00:55:15,128 this is his coat. 937 00:55:15,128 --> 00:55:17,255 They're exactly the same 938 00:55:17,255 --> 00:55:18,798 as when you look at a whale, 939 00:55:18,798 --> 00:55:20,800 look at a kauri. 940 00:55:27,849 --> 00:55:29,684 — When the kauri became unwell, 941 00:55:31,353 --> 00:55:34,230 the whale could hear the vibration and frequency, 942 00:55:35,941 --> 00:55:37,567 and tries to come back onto land, 943 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,070 and dies on the land. 944 00:55:41,738 --> 00:55:43,323 I decided, 945 00:55:43,323 --> 00:55:45,200 that if the whale can't get to the kauri, 946 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,243 I will take the whale to the kauri. 947 00:55:55,585 --> 00:55:57,379 And so I began. 948 00:55:57,379 --> 00:55:59,631 I asked for the bones of the whale. 949 00:56:00,715 --> 00:56:02,050 I crushed it up into powder. 950 00:56:03,093 --> 00:56:05,345 Then I asked for the spermaceti, 951 00:56:05,345 --> 00:56:07,931 which is the oil in the head, which is a healing. 952 00:56:09,182 --> 00:56:10,266 And then I took it, 953 00:56:10,266 --> 00:56:11,810 I cleaned the wound 954 00:56:11,810 --> 00:56:12,978 and then I put it on. 955 00:56:34,582 --> 00:56:36,167 And I sprayed around the tree, 956 00:56:36,167 --> 00:56:39,504 with what we call Kahikātoa or tea tree. 957 00:56:43,758 --> 00:56:45,593 I knew if it kills anything, 958 00:56:45,593 --> 00:56:47,095 that will kill the bug. 959 00:56:48,096 --> 00:56:49,931 So I sprayed around the tree, 960 00:56:50,682 --> 00:56:52,892 and there was one tree that was really bad. 961 00:57:10,285 --> 00:57:12,579 It was really bad, I thought it wouldn't survive. 962 00:57:13,747 --> 00:57:15,540 I kept going back to check the trees 963 00:57:15,540 --> 00:57:18,501 and I could see it really starting to come right, 964 00:57:18,501 --> 00:57:20,045 it started to heal. 965 00:57:28,219 --> 00:57:30,930 But then, people started hearing about it 966 00:57:30,930 --> 00:57:34,142 and started to talk to some of the scientists 967 00:57:34,768 --> 00:57:37,645 about doing some research on the Rongoā that I was— 968 00:57:38,897 --> 00:57:40,440 and of course they didn't believe it. 969 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,942 And so one of them checked the Rongoā that I used, 970 00:57:42,942 --> 00:57:44,527 which was the tea tree, 971 00:57:44,527 --> 00:57:45,945 and they put it against the bug, 972 00:57:45,945 --> 00:57:47,697 and when the tea tree got close to the bug, 973 00:57:47,697 --> 00:57:49,157 the bug exploded, 974 00:57:50,033 --> 00:57:51,367 and it could kill the bug. 975 00:57:58,917 --> 00:58:00,752 They did a study on the whale, 976 00:58:01,294 --> 00:58:03,004 and they finally realized there is a cure 977 00:58:03,004 --> 00:58:04,214 in the whale bone. 978 00:58:04,964 --> 00:58:06,758 All those trees survived. 979 00:58:06,758 --> 00:58:09,719 The one that was so bad, had a new skin. 980 00:58:10,470 --> 00:58:13,473 The old fell off, and the new wood grew. 981 00:58:15,433 --> 00:58:16,810 The government is paying thousands 982 00:58:16,810 --> 00:58:19,395 and millions of dollars for research, 983 00:58:20,688 --> 00:58:22,107 where we do it for nothing. 984 00:58:24,192 --> 00:58:26,986 Because our job is to look after them. 985 00:58:27,987 --> 00:58:30,240 Not going around looking for money. 986 00:58:45,329 --> 00:58:47,843 — Ko te whenua ko au, ko au ko te whenua. 987 00:58:47,882 --> 00:58:50,218 I am the land and the land is me. 988 00:58:50,718 --> 00:58:51,970 We are the land. 989 00:58:52,929 --> 00:58:56,099 Because when we talk about someone who's pregnant 990 00:58:56,933 --> 00:58:58,685 and the placenta, 991 00:58:58,685 --> 00:59:01,646 the placenta is what we call Te Whenua, 992 00:59:02,647 --> 00:59:03,773 the land. 993 00:59:03,773 --> 00:59:05,316 You come from the placenta, 994 00:59:06,317 --> 00:59:09,279 and then you will come onto the land, 995 00:59:09,279 --> 00:59:11,030 and you'll be taught on that land, 996 00:59:11,030 --> 00:59:12,699 and you will die on that land, 997 00:59:12,699 --> 00:59:14,659 and you will return to that land. 998 00:59:42,770 --> 00:59:44,300 — Oh, yeah, look, tightening. 999 00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:48,400 Beautiful! 1000 00:59:51,905 --> 00:59:54,908 So part of this is also to teach the husband, you know, 1001 00:59:54,908 --> 00:59:58,077 you know, it's to empower them to— 1002 00:59:58,077 --> 01:00:00,371 to allow them to have their time 1003 01:00:00,371 --> 01:00:02,248 with the baby too. 1004 01:00:02,248 --> 01:00:04,334 Jarroa has been connecting ever since, 1005 01:00:04,334 --> 01:00:05,627 right from the beginning. 1006 01:00:06,961 --> 01:00:08,421 So comfy, eh? 1007 01:00:10,089 --> 01:00:11,591 And come to the back. 1008 01:00:11,591 --> 01:00:13,218 — You know, he didn't know how to do that. 1009 01:00:13,218 --> 01:00:14,594 I said, "No, you're the papa. 1010 01:00:14,594 --> 01:00:16,346 You know, you knew how to make the baby." 1011 01:00:16,346 --> 01:00:18,431 Well, you know. 1012 01:00:18,431 --> 01:00:20,350 So and look, he was so happy. 1013 01:00:20,350 --> 01:00:22,143 He said, "I can feel baba!" 1014 01:00:22,143 --> 01:00:23,853 I said, "Here you go! 1015 01:00:23,853 --> 01:00:25,355 Baby will come this weekend." 1016 01:00:27,815 --> 01:00:30,360 You know, it's about giving back the knowledge. 1017 01:00:30,985 --> 01:00:32,403 And you give it back with integrity, 1018 01:00:32,403 --> 01:00:34,239 so that it stays integral, 1019 01:00:34,239 --> 01:00:37,825 and people are standing in the mana, with dignity. 1020 01:00:37,825 --> 01:00:39,494 And then you can touch eternity. 1021 01:00:39,494 --> 01:00:41,162 — Yeah, just, yeah. 1022 01:00:42,330 --> 01:00:44,290 Oh, that's good muscle release, eh? 1023 01:00:44,290 --> 01:00:47,085 — Ooooh... — Yeah 1024 01:00:47,085 --> 01:00:50,296 yeah. So baby is centered. 1025 01:00:50,296 --> 01:00:51,297 Yeah? 1026 01:00:51,297 --> 01:00:53,383 — Before I kinda lost it a little. 1027 01:00:53,383 --> 01:00:55,134 Today was a little bit like... 1028 01:00:55,134 --> 01:00:58,388 just tucked away, yeah, and I couldn't, kind of, 1029 01:00:58,388 --> 01:00:59,514 it wasn't right. 1030 01:00:59,973 --> 01:01:01,224 — Healing is... 1031 01:01:02,016 --> 01:01:04,227 inter-generational, 1032 01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:07,605 but it's also multi-generational. 1033 01:01:12,694 --> 01:01:14,362 One of the young women 1034 01:01:14,362 --> 01:01:15,738 was carrying an energy 1035 01:01:15,738 --> 01:01:17,907 that didn't belong to her. 1036 01:01:17,907 --> 01:01:21,452 But it was a tribal energy and they chose her, 1037 01:01:21,452 --> 01:01:25,123 because she was the one that had... 1038 01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,043 the will and the way to carry it, 1039 01:01:29,043 --> 01:01:32,380 even though her mind had blocked 1040 01:01:33,214 --> 01:01:35,341 the reason why she was doing it, 1041 01:02:12,670 --> 01:02:16,466 — Turn to the side. Turn onto your side. 1042 01:02:16,466 --> 01:02:18,551 — When you look at rape 1043 01:02:19,385 --> 01:02:22,096 as something that is passed down, 1044 01:02:22,930 --> 01:02:25,767 there are times when it comes into my space, 1045 01:02:25,767 --> 01:02:27,060 or when I'm working with women 1046 01:02:27,060 --> 01:02:30,521 and I sense or I know that it's there, 1047 01:02:30,521 --> 01:02:32,357 my job is to stop it, 1048 01:02:32,357 --> 01:02:35,276 so it doesn't go down any further. 1049 01:02:38,946 --> 01:02:40,406 — I can't breathe. 1050 01:02:42,784 --> 01:02:45,370 — You can breathe. 1051 01:02:46,454 --> 01:02:49,999 — In terms of the inter-generational, 1052 01:02:49,999 --> 01:02:51,209 I see it 1053 01:02:52,460 --> 01:02:54,587 come in at a time frame, 1054 01:02:54,587 --> 01:02:57,382 maybe two or three elders past. 1055 01:02:58,257 --> 01:03:00,176 And if we can take people back 1056 01:03:00,176 --> 01:03:02,887 to just beyond that time frame, 1057 01:03:02,887 --> 01:03:06,808 and weave that energy and clear it, 1058 01:03:06,808 --> 01:03:09,602 then come back to here now, 1059 01:03:09,602 --> 01:03:12,688 most times it stops it going any further. 1060 01:03:19,153 --> 01:03:21,280 — Slowly breathing down. 1061 01:03:24,492 --> 01:03:26,160 — The work we're taught, 1062 01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:29,247 it is instantaneous, if the person allows us 1063 01:03:29,247 --> 01:03:31,791 and opens their mind up 1064 01:03:31,791 --> 01:03:33,459 to the possibility. 1065 01:03:34,752 --> 01:03:35,962 — Do you want to sit up? 1066 01:03:35,962 --> 01:03:36,963 — Yeah. 1067 01:03:36,963 --> 01:03:38,339 — I want to give you a big hug. 1068 01:03:45,721 --> 01:03:48,307 — To reconnect to their own 1069 01:03:49,684 --> 01:03:51,853 ancestry, their own ways of being, 1070 01:03:51,853 --> 01:03:54,730 their own culture, their own ceremonies, 1071 01:03:54,730 --> 01:03:57,400 their own chants, their songs, 1072 01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,318 all those things that they've— 1073 01:03:59,318 --> 01:04:01,529 a lot of our people have been denied, 1074 01:04:02,655 --> 01:04:03,906 that is healing. 1075 01:06:22,086 --> 01:06:23,588 — The crowd loved that performance 1076 01:06:23,588 --> 01:06:25,548 by our final finalists here, 1077 01:06:25,548 --> 01:06:27,633 the 12th Kapa to take to the stage 1078 01:06:27,633 --> 01:06:29,927 here at the Tamaki Makaurau, the finals, 1079 01:06:29,927 --> 01:06:32,388 of the Te Matatini 2023 1080 01:06:32,388 --> 01:06:36,058 Ngati Whakaue, what a fantastic performance! 1081 01:06:36,058 --> 01:06:38,227 And there we see their supporters, as I say, 1082 01:06:38,227 --> 01:06:40,563 proud, and they should be really, really proud 1083 01:06:40,563 --> 01:06:42,398 of their whanaunga that took to the stage. 1084 01:06:55,077 --> 01:06:56,120 — Many different hats, 1085 01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:57,455 Many different thoughts, 1086 01:06:57,455 --> 01:06:58,956 many different ways; 1087 01:07:00,124 --> 01:07:01,584 only one result, 1088 01:07:03,294 --> 01:07:04,462 and that is to heal. 1089 01:07:06,547 --> 01:07:08,382 — For me, I'm just the conduit, yeah? 1090 01:07:08,382 --> 01:07:09,675 I'm not the healer. 1091 01:07:10,843 --> 01:07:12,845 The person on the table is actually the healer. 1092 01:07:16,265 --> 01:07:18,100 — It's not our job to fix them. 1093 01:07:18,809 --> 01:07:21,687 Especially, if they're going to go in the healing realm. 1094 01:07:21,687 --> 01:07:24,357 All we can do is wake them up to freedom, 1095 01:07:24,357 --> 01:07:26,692 and the rest is theirs. 1096 01:07:44,001 --> 01:07:47,046 — You know, the distress is not an individual thing. 1097 01:07:47,797 --> 01:07:50,299 Neither is the pathway or the journey through it. 1098 01:07:58,974 --> 01:08:01,018 — I am the living face 1099 01:08:01,018 --> 01:08:03,020 of those who went before me. 1100 01:08:03,604 --> 01:08:07,400 I am simply, at the end of a very long line 1101 01:08:07,817 --> 01:08:10,820 continuing the work that they began, 1102 01:08:10,820 --> 01:08:13,489 generation upon generation ago. 1103 01:08:15,032 --> 01:08:17,326 — Healing is about existing 1104 01:08:18,452 --> 01:08:20,788 through the highs and lows of their stories, 1105 01:08:20,788 --> 01:08:23,207 and our relationships with each other, 1106 01:08:23,207 --> 01:08:24,458 with ourselves. 1107 01:08:25,292 --> 01:08:27,336 The good, the bad, the ugly, 1108 01:08:27,336 --> 01:08:30,256 and never being complete. 1109 01:08:31,465 --> 01:08:34,176 And our whole reality 1110 01:08:34,176 --> 01:08:37,346 is about finding ourselves, 1111 01:08:37,346 --> 01:08:40,725 in our journey to arrive at our final breath. 1112 01:09:11,547 --> 01:09:13,466 — Living is a terminal condition. 1113 01:09:14,300 --> 01:09:16,594 Being alive is a terminal condition. 1114 01:09:16,594 --> 01:09:18,345 Dying is not losing. 1115 01:09:18,345 --> 01:09:20,139 We will all die and we will have 1116 01:09:20,139 --> 01:09:22,433 all contributed along the way. 1117 01:09:22,433 --> 01:09:24,602 So it's not about preventing death, 1118 01:09:24,602 --> 01:09:27,188 it's about enabling life.