Waipapa Tātai Hono: Waipapa Ancestral Ties

Māori-Pacific Relationships. Acknowledging, maintaining and developing the deep, abiding relationships with our Pacific whanaunga as embodied in Tāne-nui-a-rangi and known through our whakapapa and mātauranga.

Icon consists of a constellation of six six-point stars of varying sizes, with one larger eight-point star. Background is an ascending diagonal two-tone zig-zag or poutama step pattern.

Waipapa Taumata Rau acknowledges the whanaungatanga inherent through whakapapa to the Pacific. We seek to connect and reconnect through our traditions and shared aspirations and actions that uplift one another, Aotearoa, New Zealand and the world.

Everyone is seated, and the photo is taken at an angle, rather than directly in front of people. Dawn wears a striped scarf and dark clothing, her arms around her knees. She is smiling slightly, head turned towards Jemaima who sits next to her. Jemaima’s head is turned also, grinning at someone we cannot see. She is wearing a brightly coloured Pacific print dress, and an ula made of various flowers, her hands with traditional tattoos on her knees. Siaosi Gavet sits one level down in front of her, wearing a white shirt and an ulafala. He faces ahead, head tilted down as he smiles. Others sit behind them in the background.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater and Pacific leader Siaosi Gavet celebrate with Professor Jemaima Tiatia-Siau in taking up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific, 2022.

Indigenising initiatives

  • Continue to develop mutually supportive relationships with the offices of PVC Pacific and PVC Māori.
  • Provide active support for the Pacific strategies and programmes.
  • Continue to develop Tuākana and other student initiatives as vehicles for Māori and Pacific student success.
  • Collaborate with the office of PVC Pacific via our respective research platforms and in Indigenous outreach and engagement initiatives, including APRU and AFSE.

Measuring our achievement

 Five-year performance measures Partners
Active Indigenous relationships and networks reported.
 PVC Māori and PVC Pacific

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