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Maori ideology and identity comes from the natural environment – participants not owners

Maori ideology and identity comes from the natural environment – participants not owners. How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land. If you do not own the freshness of air and the sparkle of water how can you buy them - Chief Seattle (January 1855).

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Maori ideology and identity comes from the natural environment – participants not owners

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  1. Maori ideology and identity comes from the natural environment – participants not owners How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land. If you do not own the freshness of air and the sparkle of water how can you buy them - Chief Seattle (January 1855)

  2. Ngauruhoe – marks the stand of Ngatoro i Rangi

  3. Titi – Puffinis griseus

  4. Titi – Pacific migration routes

  5. Ancient invertebrate fauna

  6. Isolated vertebrate fauna

  7. Scallop (Pectin novaezelandiae) from sub-tidal sandy shore c.25 Ka Bp

  8. Terraced sequences, Rimutaka Range, Wellington. Wave cut platforms from last (70-150 K) and penultimate (250-300 K) interglacial periods

  9. The record of recent climate changes

  10. El Nino/La Nina – the southern oscillation

  11. Shifts in SO index

  12. NIWA climate predictions- for regional Bay of Plenty

  13. We know of the approaching storm – its part of our daily lives

  14. The river and its wetland – flooding is a natural event

  15. Despite protective engineering for a 1:100 yr flood recurrent storm cycles have given a recent reminder of the once extensive Rangitaiki River wetland

  16. The rolling of boulders – flooding at Matata April 2004 and May 2005

  17. Flooding brings instant change to wetland Matata wetland May 2005 and June 2005

  18. The onus for floodwater removal ignores most other resources – like valuable soils Channel systems and point discharge of stormwater has no regard for water velocity changes or its effect on the transport and re-deposition of suspension loads

  19. Ngati Pukeko Marae, Whakatane A mark of cultural identity, the focal point of community

  20. Karearea- screams on a wet day – it’s fine the next day

  21. Pukeko - run to higher ground before the flood

  22. Ruru – shrill cries of more than one, rain follows

  23. Pohutukawa - early flowering signals a long hot summer

  24. Ti Kouka – profuse flowering indicates a long hot summer

  25. Matariki- signals the new year

  26. Kakahoroa reserve – site of paru a fine carbonaceous mud

  27. Kokopu –freshwater food resource

  28. Tuna-a food source and the guardian of freshwaterand wetlands

  29. Traditional root crops – survivors of Pacific introductions Kumara – Ipomea bata Taro – Colocasia esculenta

  30. A whakapapa for Kumara and Taro - it signifies cultural ownership of a resource

  31. What expectations do we hold for our mokopuna Shantelle & Waimirirangi

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