Workbook
For Māori Families
Te Ao Māori, Colonization, and Raising Tamariki Who Know Who They Are
Ko wai au? Who am I? Your family has an answer. Write it down before it lives only in memory.
For the Māori adult — in Aotearoa or the diaspora — who wants to document what Māori identity means for their family: the whakapapa, the iwi and hapu connections, the te reo, the tikanga, and what they are reclaiming for their tamariki.
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Māori families carry one of the most deliberate identity reclamation projects in the world: a people nearly stripped of language, land, and culture who have been fighting to restore all three. Your Whakapapa Identity Document examines what Māori families live with: whakapapa and iwi connections, te reo and the kohanga reo generation, tikanga practices that organize family life, and what it means to be Māori far from tribal lands. Your Whakapapa Identity Document is stress-tested and signed.
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Sample questions
- What does Māori identity mean in your household — which iwi, which hapū, which whakapapa do you carry?
- What from Māori culture does your family actively practice — te reo, tikanga, the relationship with your marae?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about being Māori — what was nearly taken, what was reclaimed, and what is yours to carry forward?
Research basis
Grounded in Walker's Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou scholarship on Māori identity and political struggle, Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies, McCarty and Hinton's language reclamation applied to te reo Māori, and tribal sovereignty frameworks applied to iwi self-determination.
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