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Year: 2013
The stories in this collection are deeply personal and span almost a century
on what it means to be Māori
Format: Digital version
Drawing on interviews with over a hundred whāngai and Māori adoptees and their whānau and families
Tākiri mai te ata: Understanding whāngai and adoption free-shipping Year: 2013This book takes readers on a journey from the whakapapa centred world of te ao Mori to the imposition of colonisation, and back again. Destroying whnau served the wider colonial goal of taking Mori land and assimilating the people who belonged to it. That destruction included outlawing the tikanga of whngai, which helps grow strong and connected whnau, and replacing it with adoption and nuclear families. Drawing on interviews with over a hundred
