Readers of this blog are invited to attend the fourth seminar in the series, “Indigenous Writing: Reclaiming the Past, Imagining the Future”. Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere) will be joining us (virtually!) from Aotearoa New Zealand to deliver a paper on her research on 31st July.
“Haumi ē, hui ē, tāiki ē!”: Tribally Specific Zine Creation in Response to Cultural and Environmental Climate Change
Responses by Indigenous peoples across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (Kiwa’s Great Ocean, the Pacific Ocean) to the ongoing effects of climate change, are as plentiful and vibrant as the communities who dream these responses into existence. The zine “Haumi” was created as a fundraiser and koha aroha from some of the Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki creative community, to our whānau and ahikā who continue to deal with the effects of Cyclone Gabrielle after it descended over the Tairāwhiti region on Tuesday 14 February 2023. The zine traces hau kāinga reminiscences, histories, and stories about growing up in Te Tairāwhiti, to stories about returning to the whenua, rangatahi contemplations of environmental and cultural climate change, and imaginations of Māhaki futures. In this presentation I contemplate these issues alongside readings from the zine.
Bio: Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere) is a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where she works within the broad field of Māori and Indigenous Literary Studies. A writer-scholar undertaking a significant creative writing project as part of her doctoral studies, Marama’s creative work has been recognised in national fiction competitions and has been published in various anthologies and journals.
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