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2019 N.Z. L. Rev. 3 (2019)
Reimagining Our Future; Looking Back from Our Past: The Legacy of Wakatu and the Story of the Nelson Tenths

handle is hein.journals/newzlndlr2019 and id is 7 raw text is: 3 Reimagining our Future; Looking Back from our Past: The Legacy of Wakati and the Story of the Nelson Tenths KERENSA JOHNSTON* Here, at the top of a small island in the South Pacific, known as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui, my whanau live amongst rich podocarp forests of rimu, kahikatea, miro, matal and totara. Here, we grow and gather nutrient-rich and healthy food to sustain us. Our houses, are modem and well-designed to connect our whdnau together, open to the sea and our ancestral mountains. Our papakainga provides a place where we come together. We live as whdnau and hapti as we have always done, supporting one another in times of stress and need, and celebrating together when times are good. We live in community with our environment - mindful of the changing patterns of our climate, in relationship with the water, sky and the animals we share this whenua with. Our cities are built amongst the forest and accommodate the landscape, buildings hug the trees, native plants define the contours of our roads and urban hubs provide a common place to come together, to learn, trade, eat, drink and share - and grow as a human society. Te reo rangatira, the language of our tilpuna, is spoken by everyone. It is the first language that all of our children learn, regardless of whether they are tangata whenua, the first people of this land, or tangata tiriti, those who came later and have chosen, on our invitation and subject to the sacred covenants contained in Te Tiriti, to make Aotearoa their home. It is much later, when our children begin their formal education, which is underpinned by the depth and complexity of winanga and humanist values of equality and collective good, that they begin to learn second, third and fourth languages that will carry them forward into the world. Here, our political structures and economy have evolved to develop and apply our values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga and *Ngiti Tama ki te Tau Ihu. Chief Executive, Wakatti Incorporation.

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