Kei nga mahuitanga iho o te whanau marama, rarau mai ki Te Hui. Ko Mihingarangi tenei. E mihi atu nei ki a koutou katoa. Welcome to the Hui ` Maori current affairs for all New Zealanders. E taro ake nei ` He matanga tatai arorangi. - I never would have imagined that I would be able to understand my location in the world by using my matauraka Maori. - As we celebrate Matariki, we look to the stars with Ngai Tahu astronomer Victoria Campbell. - For many, they will be exposed to the absolute beauty of our pristine stars. - Then, she is the grandmother who's become a TikTok sensation... - Well, I didn't even know what TikTok was, and I don't watch television. - I said, 'Aunty, you should put your videos on TikTok,' and she goes, 'What's TikTok?' - ...clocking millions of views. - I'll show you what it looks like once it's cooked. - We meet Ngati Porou hunter-gatherer Terressa Kollat. - I feel at peace in the bush and in the moana ` the sea. So that's what keeps me going. Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2022 - Tahuti mai. This Friday, Matariki, or the Maori New Year, will be celebrated as a public holiday for the first time. With the public appetite for matauranga of the whetu growing, Ngai Tahu astronomer Victoria Campbell is helping to share traditional knowledge with her hapori. She shares her journey of becoming a Maori astronomer as she prepares for a new phase in Aotearoa's history. Kei a John Boynton nga tai pitopito. (ETHEREAL MUSIC) - The wonder of the night skies guide Maori astronomer Victoria Campbell. - I never would have imagined that I would be able to understand my location in the world by using matauraka Maori and looking up and seeing where the whetu are to be able to locate myself in the world. - The Ngai Tahu uri is a passionate practitioner and expert in the field of tatai arorangi ` Maori astronomy. When you look to the stars, what is it that you see? - Oh, I see a lot of things. Probably first and foremost, just the absolute beauty of our whetu, including our planets but I see the pictures to our life story. I'm reminded of those and of my whakapapa and my connection to the whetu and to the universe. - Victoria's journey started after attending a wananga with renowned Maori astronomer Professor Rangi Matamua 12 years ago. - We went outside one night and looked up at the sky, and it was absolutely amazing. And I could not differentiate anything. But what it did do was it really sparked a desire for me to learn more about those whetu and to be able to look up and recognise those images, those pictures to our storybooks. - Since then, she's seen the renaissance tati arorangi through Matariki ` the constellation of stars which mark the arrival of the Maori new year. - The knowledge doesn't sit in astronomy itself. It sits in other bodies, other disciplines mahika kai practices and our weather korero, even in our migration korero. I would think of astronomy as one of our cornerstones of matauraka. So it's like a foundation stone. It's embedded in everything. It's connected, and through that lens of whakapapa. (GENTLE MUSIC) - After years of studying, teaching and practising tatai arorangi, Victoria has become a leading source for this matauranga. Today she's teaching the kaiako at Te Waka Unua Primary in Otautahi. - SPEAKS TE REO MAORI: Kia ora, everybody. My name is Victoria Campbell if we're being flash, otherwise Tori for short. I think of the science lessons that I was exposed to in school that I struggled to find relevance in those teachings... So when Matariki rises in the east, it symbolises the start of a new season. ...whereas hearing stories of Tama-nui-te-ra shifting between Hine Takurua and Hine Raumati ` That story, I can associate to it. - Victoria was part of the Matariki Advisory Group to help set up the public holiday. - The first celebration of Matariki, after much advice from our advisory committee, will be on the 24th of June 2022. (APPLAUSE) - What's it like to be at the stage now where we have a public holiday for Matariki? - Um, I shed a tear. I was so proud of where we've got to as a nation for that movement to be happening. But I also know that, for many whanau, many hapu, many iwi, we've been celebrating Puaka and Matariki for a long, long time. And for me, the real gem in the public holiday is what it symbolises for iwi and that our matauraka is being recognised and valued. - With the surge in demand in Maori astronomy leading up to the Matariki holiday, Victoria's been keeping busy. At her latest wananga, she's been joined by a maramataka expert, Rikki Solomon... - The whiro moon is when the sun... and the moon come together in the morning, and they rise up together. - ...and taonga puhoro tohunga, James Webster. - (CHANTS) - They're part of a community which both inspire and offer support for Victoria. - ALL: Maramataka! - My favourite things to do was is to go and connect with the extended whanau, whanau whanui, and to learn things, to share things, and then go on and share those with the kids, with the community. It's a pretty awesome kaupapa to be on. - But as this kaupapa becomes more public, is there a risk of this matauranga losing its integrity? - I think the key to it is the values and principles that are associated with, not only the public holiday, but with Matariki in general. The environment is a key part in Matariki as a time in our maramataka but also part of our practice. So if people are mass producing, you know, plastic things that are gonna end up in our oceans printed with Matariki, that does not align with the values and principles of Matariki. And so is communities, we should be not supporting those businesses and calling them out. - Victoria hopes Matariki will drive an appreciation of our whetu and the matauranga behind them. - I think it's exciting that Aotearoa will be encouraged to look to our skies, and I believe, for many, they will be exposed to the absolute beauty of the Pacific and of our pristine stars. They need to be valued. And it is a privilege that we're able to see such beauty from Aotearoa. - Ka rere nga purapura a Matariki. - Na John Boynton tera purongo. After the break, we meet the Ngati Porou grandmother teaching rangatahi how to live off the land. And thanks to one Murihiku-based grandmother, a new generation are learning how to harvest kai Maori responsibly and sustainably. Her name is Terressa Kollat, and thanks to TikTok, her traditional kai gathering skills are inspiring rangatahi Maori to venture into the realm of Tane Mahuta and Tangaroa. Kei a D'Angelo Martin te roanga ke o nga korero. - She's the definition of a wahine toa. - I've been hunting most of my life. Some find it unusual, but this is my normal. I love it. - A grandmother whose pataka stocked by Papatuanuku. - I feel at peace in the bush and in the moana ` the sea. So that's what keeps me going. - And at 53 years of age, she's unexpectedly become a TikTok star... - So you've got your own wee little bags for cooking. Well, I didn't even know what TikTok was, and I don't watch television. - ...clocking millions of views. - I'll show you what it looks like once it's cooked. Kia ora. - Ngati Porou hunter-gatherer Terressa Kollat has been living off the whenua all her life. - My parents were lighthouse keepers ` John Shandley and Hine Kino. Born on Mokohinau Island in the Hauraki Gulf. You had to be semi self-sufficient. My father fished. The local iwi there let us collect mutton birds, and mum gathered, like, parengo, pikopiko. So I watched them growing up. We're going to dig for toheroa today. - Nowadays, Terressa lives on the mainland, and when she's not her full-time job at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, she volunteers in schools teaching tamariki about nature. - We don't take anything under 100mm cos we've gotta leave them to breed. I'm concerned for the younger generation, especially with technology these days. It's a lot easier to hand someone a phone or them an iPad rather than give them a fishing rod and take them out fishing, cos it takes up a lot of your time. I get these children, they'll say to me, all they do is spend time watching television. Is it bigger or smaller than 100mm? - Bigger. - Good girl! (CHEERING) Well done. We've been kai gathering today for kaimoana. - Now Terressa is using technology to get more rangatahi out into the taiao... - And these are kakahi. They're freshwater mussels. - ...sharing her matauranga with 100,000 followers on social media. - So he can go back in the water. - On TikTok, she's known as Auntie. - Look at that. Isn't it beautiful? - And she accepts requests from followers wanting to go out kai gathering with her. - I have a diary, and I have all the names of people that want to come to my home. I have their ages and a wee bit about them, and I have a letter I send out to them to whittle down the ones that just want to come for holiday and aren't really gonna benefit. I want people that are gonna benefit from being with me. - A good deed she does for free. - Half the problems we have and today's age is because of money. There shouldn't be a price paid on something that's here for free. The only thing I pay for personally is petrol. - Kia ora. - Morena. - Tena koe. 'This week, Terressa has three rangatahi and one keen-as reporter in tow ready to get amongst it.' - We're gonna drag for flounder today ` patiki. There's a bit of weed on the beach today. That's a concern, cos you get that in the net. - Terressa follows the same tikanga as her mother. So before we head into Tangaroa, we karakia. - Kawa wini, kawa wana, tarapatatu ki te rangi aue ki. Whano, whana, haramai te toki. Haumie, hui e, Taiki e. - OK. Come out, Michael! You're not gonna go and drag it, and that's cos of the weed. So we're gonna go and find a spot that's got no weed. - And this is where we learn our first lesson from Terressa about kai gathering ` So no luck this morning, eh? - No, but you get that. It's not a supermarket. You just give it a go. We'll have another go later on. A lot of weed in the water today. (UPBEAT MUSIC) Always pays to have a sharp knife, eh? - Two of the rangatahi staying with Terressa are Rina Paraone and Brielle Cadwallader. - It's quite therapeutic, eh? - Yeah. - And they're loving their time in Te Waipounamu. What has Terressa taught you? - I've learnt about giving without expecting anything in return, and also, in terms of gathering kai, especially kaimoana, just taking what you need. - People don't understand why, and I find the people I have in my home` Once you explain the reasons why they gather this way rather than way, they'll do it that way. They don't at the moment, because no one's taught them. - It was Terressa's nephew, Michael, who gave his auntie the idea to start her own TikTok account. - I said, 'Auntie, you should put your videos on TikTok,' and she goes, 'What's TikTok?' So I showed her a couple of TikToks, and I told her people would really be interested in what she does. - See that line along there? - Yeah. - That's where I'm gonna fillet it. - And there's always something interesting to film with Auntie Terressa. - In a T where its tail is. I just take videos of what I'm doing at the time. So it's real and relevant. There's no make-up or hair or fancy clothes. It is as we are doing it. - Out there just doing it, Terressa has struck social media gold. - We set her up an account, and we posted a video of her eating a kina. And I didn't really think it was gonna get` go too well. - They're beautiful too. They're the nice, creamy ones. - Woke up in the morning, thought, 'Oh, I better check this for her,' look at it; it's got a couple hundred thousand views. I ring her up ` 'Auntie, you've gone famous on TikTok.' - And Terressa's using that fame to advocate for the environment, teaching the next generation to protect Papatuanuku. - You don't have to be hunting and gathering to be sustainable. You got to think about what we're buying, what chemicals we're using when we go to the supermarket, cos that's affecting our environment. - She's dedicated to this way of life, and Auntie has no plans to hang up her rifle any time soon. - The most precious thing you have is time. And one day you're gonna run out. You don't know when your number's up. My father was diving until he was in his 70s, so I've still got a wee way to go yet. - Na D'Angelo Martin tera ripoata. Hei muri I nga whakatairanga, ka matapakihia nga take toi Maori. has been held Tamaki Makaurau to coincide with Matariki. Toi Te Kupu ` Whakaahuatanga aims to celebrate and showcase the transformative power of matauranga Maori as expressed through art, exhibition making and wider creative practices while increasing the dialogue between Maori artists on what is critically important in contemporary Maori art right now. Hei matapaki i nga kaupapa i wanangahia, ko hono mai a Nikau Hindin raua ko Moana Tipa. Tena korua. - Kia ora. - Nikau, I'll start with you. What's` How do you place the relationship between toi Maori and Matariki? - I think for across centuries and cultures and disciplines Matariki has been a source of inspiration for songs, for purakau and mahi toi. Just thinking of Maisey Rika's beautiful waiata ` Matariki. And I think it's a way of recording the knowledge contained in our whetu across time. Moku ake nei, I create star maps that record the movement of stars across our stellar lunar calendar. And I think Matariki was really a catalyst for... investigating, like, how our stars move and what are they doing throughout other times that aren't just Matariki. - Ka pai. Moana, if I can come to you, this wananga ` a couple hundred of Maori artists and curators, and you all came together to celebrate, obviously, the toi Maori and Matariki, but also to talk about what's critically important in your industry at the moment. What do you think were the outcomes of that? - Well, one of the questions for me was about the thriving of the Maori arts community. And I see that there's been a massive amount of growth over a very long period of time. But we've arrived at a central place, I believe. We've arrived at a point. We have a thriving culture at the top end of the arts, I would say. And it causes a question to arise within me. Do we have all of the necessary streams coming in and going out from this hub, this immensely important hub of vision, of insight? There's a propelling nature that is tied up nga toi Maori. It's an immense force field in itself. And so I'm interested in the streams that come in and come out of it at this point when there is such a thriving community up at the top gate. That's really how I kind of perceive things. And I'd like to see other perspectives on that. - Ae. He aha o whakaaro, Nikau? ` What are your thoughts? So hearing that, what are some of your takeaways, you know, being one of the younger reanga of talent that were there. - Yeah, I totally agree with Moana. I'm very fortunate to be kind of have been absorbed into Toi Ngapuhi. And so Toi Ngapuhi is our iwi-led... toi institution And it has meant that I've been able to create relationships with teina, with young taiohi, and teach kind of the new generation and meet the new generation of artists. And I really value the relationships that I've been able to have through Toi Ngapuhi. But not only having access to the taiohi, but also having access to the likes of Bernard Makoare and those tohunga who have helped me in my practice. So yeah, I absolutely... (KNOCK AT DOOR) - Moana, if I can come to you, Moana. Can you tell me, you know, if felt healthy and wealthy at the wananga in terms of being able to sustain themselves. Are artists doing well? - Well, again, there's an immense richness there. You know, you kind of` the wealth of that place, the wealth of gathered knowledge, the wealth of all that has been gathered over generations, you know, that has come into this generation, it begs the question of ` where to? You know, where to? We are a Pacific nation. And I can't help but think of us as a strategic voice coming out of this nation, and that arts voice is visionary. It holds a specific place in any culture. But in this culture, for within Maoridom, within the nation itself, within the nations of the Pacific, there's a function. There is a voice that needs to go out, I believe. So that's part of what I see` that I see. And I would love to hear other conversations about it, because we have something built here that provides the capacity to expand itself so that we take a nation with us. - Well, I think we've lost Nikau` Oh, no, Nikau's back. I was wondering, Nikau, if you could jump in there after your visitor's left. (CHUCKLES) If you could tell us, do you think, you know, toi Maori and the arts have had a lot of involvement in the revitalisation of Matariki? - Um, yes, I think... (CHUCKLES) I think so. I mean, I just mentioned Maisey's waiata. I think mahi toi is a way of transmitting knowledge and a way of containing knowledge and sharing our matauranga with our people. And I think that... yeah, and I` certainly in my mahi toi, I definitely use Matariki as a source of inspiration. And especially, this time, if we just think about what Matariki` the time of Matariki and Takurua, is it's cold, and it's a time for wananga; it's a time for learning; it's a time for listening, and it's a time for sharing matauranga. And that was what was really exciting about having Toi Te Kupu during the time of Matariki. Because it was the appropriate time for generations to gather together and learn from each other. - Ka pai. Well, you certainly took the opportunity to have a great wananga at your hui. We look forward to see what the industry looks like in the next couple of years. Ka nui te mihi ki a korua I tenei ra. - E mihi ana. - Kia ora. - Kia ora. - Ko rehu tenei whetu marama ka tira ma te waiata a Mohi ta tatau hotaka e whakakopani ake ara ko Te Aroha Mauroa. Noho ora mai ra. - # Tukituki # te manawa. # Rere ana # nga mahara. # E rongo ana # te wairua # I tenei mea e kiia nei ko te aroha. # E te whitinga # o te ra # taku marama # i te po, # I te rangi nei, # homai ki a au he wahanga. # Kia korowaitia koe ki te aroha. # To manawa ko toku manawa. # He manawa ka turuturua. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Me ko hineruhi koe, # korikori rirerire e. # Nana ra i tu te ata hapara, # e te hinatore whita, aho mai ra. # To manawa ko toku manawa. # He manawa ka turuturua. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. (VOCALISES) # To manawa ko toku manawa. # He manawa ka turuturua. # Ko te here o te aroha, # he herenga mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. # Haereere I te araroa # o te aroha mauroa. - Ko te reo te take. - Na Te Puna Whakatongarewa Te Hui i tautoko.