The pic was taken in the early morning with the sunrise just peaking out behind the building. The shot is of the atrium area with a master carving that is significant to the wānanga.
I enjoy being able to share my journey through the Samoan indigenous lens that my parents and Samoan community shared with me all those years back.
It's indeed a privilege to be able to encourage and support many other indigenous peoples as students at this wānanga in reshaping and recontextualising the histories that we had been told in schools. There is now a lot of information that has been gleaned that informs us of a different reading of history.
It's exciting to see this development since becoming an educator back in the 1990s. I never believed that it could happen, but I am now seeing the fruits of the fighting for an emancipatory education system that values indigenous peoples and indeed the histories of tangata when (first peoples of the land)...
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