Image: The author’s taua, Phyllis Pickering, and her mother Ellen Waterreus at Hyde’s Motor Camp, Paraparaumu, ca. 1937‐1945. Personal Collection of Karen Waterreus.
Join the History Department as Ereni Pūtere (Ngāi Tahu Research Centre) presents: Rau mōrehu ki te ao, rau mahara i te pō: Navigating history and the lives of Kāi Tahu tūpuna.
This paper asks how the historical discipline can navigate Māori relationships to the past and our ancestors.
It will examine both European depictions of the author’s tupuna Teitei and her depictions in the kōrero tuku iho of her whānau, as well as describing the implications these recordings have on the mana of her tupuna and our recording of Māori subjects in history.
The paper elaborates on the kaupapa and methodology behind the author’s honours dissertation ‘Ko wai mātou?: Recording Ngāi Tahutanga in Mantell’s Census’, which provided a Ngāi Tahu reading of Mantell’s census of 1848 and its cultural incompatibility to record Ngāi Tahu identity.
Ereni Pūtere (nō Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Te Ātiawa ki Taranaki) is a doctoral candidate in History at the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre | Kā Waimaero.
Her research examines the recording of Kāi Tahu whakapapa (genealogies) and tūpuna (ancestors) throughout time and the lingering effects of these recordings.
On 28 April at 12pm in Psychology – Sociology 251, or if at Alert Level 2+ by Zoom https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/99491132786 (ID 994 9113 2786).
