ISSUE FORTY-EIGHT: WHĀ TEKAU MĀ WARU DECEMBER 2017
Heke Tuna Whānau Day a Huge Success
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Early Polynesians were skilled sailors and navigators, people of the water, who long before they arrived in Aotearoa had explored and inhabited the many islands of the Pacific Ocean. When they arrived here in the twelfth century one of the first places they settled was the south Wairarapa coast. Around the sixteenth century they moved from the Wairarapa coast to Wairarapa Moana where tuna rich in protein and essential fats sustained them well into the 20th century.
who is the co-ordinator of the Tukutuku Mentoring Programme, College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington. This mentoring programme employs senior students to mentor their younger peers and one of their roles is to deliver a community project each year.
Thus, begins the story of the tuna. The dependence of Māori on tuna as a food source and an economy underpins the history of the Wairarapa. This story of a culture interwoven with its environment has been the focus of a project adopted by six south Wairarapa schools.
The title of this year’s project was Te Heke Tuna ki Onoke Mural/Community Day, the migration of tuna to Onoke, and celebrated the juvenile eels migrating back to Onoke. It also coincided with the signing of the Declaration of Independence which happened on the 28th October 1835.
This initiative of the Pirinoa Whānau Group has been supported by Dale-Maree Morgan
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