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Hōtaka
To achieve our cultural aspirations, we provide a wide range of programmes, resources and opportunities to help guide, empower and connect our people to their Raukawa identity. Through our mahi, we aim to revitalise and normalise our culture, language, identity, and heritage.
Whare Kōrero
Te Whare Kōrero o Raukawa is an annual week-long wānanga aimed at improving the knowledge, confidence and capability of Raukawa reo speakers and learners.
Our marae-based wānanga explores Raukawa history, language, whakapapa, whaikōrero, karanga, karakia, mōteatea, tikanga and reconnecting our people to our significant sites and traditional practices.
Each kaupapa is taught by high calibre tutors who specialise in reo and tikanga. Included is a basic level class using Te Ataarangi and a tamariki programme enabling parents to attend while their child takes part in a fun-filled programme.
Our wānanga is open to all; however, priority is given to Raukawa uri and people with a strong affiliation to our iwi and rohe. Te Whare Kōrero o Raukawa is usually scheduled to take place in January each year during the school holidays.
Kura Reo
Te Kura Reo o Raukawa is an annual weeklong wānanga aimed at improving the knowledge, confidence and capability of Raukawa reo speakers and learners.
Our marae-based wānanga explores the use of grammar, comprehension, translation, idiom, tikanga and a host of other language subjects.
Each kaupapa is taught by high calibre tutors who specialise in reo and tikanga. Included is a basic level class using Te Ataarangi and a tamariki programme enabling parents to attend while their child takes part in a fun-filled programme.
Our wānanga is open to all; however, priority is given to Raukawa uri and people with a strong affiliation to our iwi and rohe. Te Kura Reo o Raukawa is usually scheduled to take place in April each year during the school holidays.
Ngā Wānanga ā-Rohe
Ngā Wānanga ā-Rohe is a series of regional wānanga that aim to assist intermediate to high level reo Māori learners with activities focusing on improving fluency and confidence in whaikōrero, karanga, waiata, whakapapa, karakia, tikanga and kōrero tuku iho.
The programme aims to foster skilled and confident speakers throughout our takiwā across our 16 Raukawa marae who are able to uphold tikanga, utilise mātauranga ā-iwi, and uphold the mana of Raukawa paepae. Our programme is provided via four groupings that reflect the traditional landscape of our takiwā and make it easier for our marae and whānau to wānanga at a local level.
Te Ūkaipō
Te Ūkaipō is a marae-based wānanga for whānau who have a desire to reclaim, restore and reactivate traditional Raukawa birthing and parenting practices.
The programme is inspired by the stories of Tūrongo, Māhinaarangi, and the birth of Raukawa and is designed to empower participants to meet their Raukawa cultural aspirations as a whānau. The programme provides a culturally safe space for whānau, to explore and learn about traditional pre-natal, birthing and post-natal options that support māmā, pēpi, and whānau.
Tohi Ceremony
One of the many traditional practices that Te Ūkaipō has revitalised is the tohi ritual that has previously been lying dormant within our iwi for over 100 years. This programme has provided the iwi with an opportunity to reawaken a traditional knowledge system, expressing mātauranga ā-iwi o Raukawa and reconnecting ourselves to the practises and tikanga of our tūpuna.
Puhuruhurutanga
Pūhuruhurutanga is an initiative that supports whānau to reclaim, restore and reactivate traditional practices that culturally suuports and guides tamariki to transition safely from childhood into adulthood.