Kaitiakitanga

Kaitiakitanga Program and Network
Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi children
guard and share Whirinaki,
their culture, language and values

International Network Connections:

We celebrate the sharing relationships we have formed with innovative communities and organisations wordwide:

NORTH AMERICA:

Haida Nation, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada)

Malibu Hamilton (Raglan) and Will Stensness (Hokianga) met Haida president Gujaaw ( recipient of the 2006 Buffet Award for Indigenous Leadership at the Sustainable Resources conference in Colorado 2004.

In March 2007, Randal Stensness from Hokianga Harbourcare visited them as part of a Kiwi Youth Voice learning journey.

For web information on Haida Gwaii:

Haida Forest Guardians
Community Planning Forum 2004
EAGLE (Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education)

Lopez Island (Washington State)

Sandy Bishop and Rhea Miller from Lopez attended a Tipu Ake retreat in 2003 and that started a long relationship and sharing particularly in relation to affordable / sustainable housing

Earl Rewi, James Goldsmith and Claud August visited them after attending and presenting at the Sharing Indigenous Wisdom Forum 2004 in Wisconsin. In March 2007, Randal Stensness from Hokianga Harbourcare visited them as part of a Kiwi Youth Voice learning journey. He returned in 2008 for an intership with the Lopez Land Trust

For Web Information

Communty Land Trust
Affordable Housing
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Menominee Nation (Wisconsin)

Earl Rewi, James Goldsmith and Claud August from Te Whaiti attended and presented at the Sharing Indigenous Wisdom Forum 2004 in Wisconsin. The Meneminee pepole are famous for their sustainable forestry research and operations.

For Web Information

Official Minominee website
College of the Menominee Nation
Sustainable Development Institute Sustaining the spirit, forest and nation.
Sustaining the Forest

Haudenosaunee Nation (New York State and above)

In June 2005 Janice Annuziata was part of a hikoi of indigenous people who visited Te Whaiti on her way to attend the Indigenous Knowledges conference in Wellington. That started a connection with them and their work.

For Web Information

Address to UN Millennium World Peace Summit 2000
Haudenosaunee Environmental Restoration Strategy (UN Report)
Mother Earth and Us - A Haudenosaunee Perspective
Peace for Turtle Island

EUROPE:

Tanat Valley (Wales)

In June 2005 Dee Ramsayer a local Management Consultant discovered Tipu Ake on the web which resulted in her arranging a presentation to a group of community people at Llangedwyn Mill as part of an international seminar series "Tools for Growing Living Organisations and Communities"

They too suffer the loss of industry and a balanced sustainable population in their valley, so are working on that.

For Web Information

The Tanat Valley - Historic Landscape Characterisation
Llangedwyn Mill Craft Centre

NOTICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Our gift to you - download Free Whirinaki Matariki Wall Calendar

What Andree a sustainability writer discovered about Kaitiakitanga

Coming Easter 2010 Biomimicry Exploration - Norbert Hoeller, Auckland
David Bellamy - Moa's Ark revisited tour Whirinaki 25 4-10 Oct 09
The Maori Youth Hikoi to Bioneers Conference, San Francisco 16 Oct 08
VIDEO "Redesigning our Future" - Youth Forum with Michael Braungart

Papakainga Development - Matekuare Whanau Project underway
Minginui Community Gardening - underway thanks to Community Max

Check out our school's Energy Monitoring / Weatherstation project
Our drama production, kapakaka and other creative initiatives


Ngati Whare Iwi Treaty Settlement signed, incl partnership with DOC
WEMZ - The Whirinaki Ecological Restoration Zone - a project with DOC
DOC partnerships information kiosk, Mangamate, Sanctuary(proposed)
Take a photo tour through our valley see restoration work needed
Ready to start - our Whirinaki Centre, Nursary and Recycling Projects
Our project to upgrade our water supply in Minginui Mar 07
Thanks TPK for facilitating Govt support for Minginui initiatives

Toxin Bioremediation Project started in Whakatane May 09
Celebrate what our friends at Hokianga Harbourcare are doing
Our Network's Mycorestoration Research Project - Fungi and mushroom
Our Lopez friends help Raglan with an affordable housing project

Thanks MfE for a big toxin cleanup on our millsites - July 07
Blocked - our Community Digital Strategy - Whirinaki Interactive 12/06
Prince Andrew adopts our Kiwi, Princess Beatrice on Mokoia Is Mar 07
Our network on the Kiwi Youth Voice learning journey to US. Mar 07
Our network at Youth Voice Digital Earth Summit on Sustainbility Aug 06
We welcomed Hunter Lovins 7-9 July 06, VIDEO view NZ tour resources
Thanks Waikato University for help with broadband 05
Thanks Housing Corp, house painting and marae restoration teams
Go Tramping in Whirinaki. See Kaka, Kiwi, Weka, Robin, Blueduck
Report Living Organisation workshops. Tipu Ake presented worldwide 05
Report Hikoi to Indigenous Knowledges Conf , Well, NZ. June 05
Thanks to UNITEC Architecture Students for help with town plans 04
Report on Sustainable Resources Conf, Colorado 04
Report on PMI Global Forum, Los Angeles Tipu Ake paper 04
Report on Sharing Indigenous Wisdom Conf, Wisconsin, June 04
Int and local visitors attend Tipu Ake Retreat March 04 See report
MPs Horomia and Mallard open our new merged area school Jan 04
Trip to Whaingaroa Env Gp Raglan, Jan04 learnings, VIDEO view