Indigenous Knowledge Has Value | Curtis Bristowe | TEDxRuakura
Curtis Bristowe talks on the power of Kawa, Tikanga, and Kaupapa to provide answers to today's problems.
In his talk Curtis reflects on his ancestors challenges, how they overcame these challenges and how we can learn from these in our own lives.
This year's theme was Morphosis and reflected the ever changing world we live in.
Curtis Bristowe is a man of many strands. Among these he is a PhD student of media communications at the University of Waikato, and a teacher of Indigenous Research at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
An advocate for the survival and prosperity of Māori language and culture, Curtis’ research has focused on the development and implementation of a kaupapa Māori-inspired strategic communication framework. It is his hope that this framework can help business and community groups’ focus, and guide their collective purpose and vision.
There is the need to communicate our Indigenous knowledge so people may gain an understanding of its value and worth, and secondly, the opportunity to share a piece of our national history and the forces that helped shape it. As Curtis says “There are many threads of history that make up the fabric of our great nation, and stories such as Te Kooti’s deserved to be acknowledged and remembered, lest the faults of the past are again repeated in the present.”
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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It continues to amaze me how these Indigenous peoples that have suffered so terribly at the hands of colonial powers, are still willing to forgive, are still willing to reach out the hand of friendship to that same power, their actions, their humanity, it gives me hope.
@dawnezone8491
3 жыл бұрын
Does it give you hope that colonial people will change? I dont believe it will no matter how kind indigenous people are! Colonials are scared because they KNOW how horrendous they have been
@Jonathan-bw5oz
2 жыл бұрын
@@dawnezone8491 I think that questioning hope is an interesting approach to these topics, because I can imagine most people hope that one day colonial people will change. There is good progress, let's make sure that we keep empowering those who need a stage to stand on. Get the word out. I also don't think many people know how horrendous their ancestors have been. Or, how horrendous they act themselves. They should, but don't. Don't judge a fish on it's ability to walk. Let's slowly change the world for the better, let's evolve. The process of decolonialisation is slow, but honest, painful yet liberating and beautiful.
@dawnezone8491
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jonathan-bw5oz Sure we want to evolve, but why are people still suffering and will continue to suffer, when everyone knows the answer? Why should indigenous people have to continue to fight for equity and equality when it is acknowledged it is a Right. Because the colonists still believe in their own 'rightness' and are unwilling to shift their stand. It will mean sharing power and after all when you look at how colonisation works and how it was implemented in so many continents across the earth, sharing power is not what they had in mind..then or now. The consequences are seen earth wide. Kia Kaha to us all
@cascade3769
2 жыл бұрын
Bruce mate- They ARE Pakeha too.
Many strands of my own culture, Anglo-Welsh and European Whakapapa, were lost to me. Maori culture has taught me, not only what and where 'the pathway' is, but it's illuminated the journey in form of genuine cultural and developmental hope. Everyone should hear this talk. My own story, I've begun to see family, personality, identity and original life-lore; slowly return to the hours of my days. Moreover, the Maori framework of culture has taught me how to 'hold' my own story out in front of myself and to make friends with it. I consider myself a beginner. Between June 2015 and March 2018, Maori faith has given me back my life. Thank you. Please keep sharing.
"It deserves to be acknowledged. It deserves to be remembered. And we are no less of a people or a country for having done so." These are words and insight that brings tears to my eyes. This is truth across the planet. It resonates like the beating of a drum.
Maori values guide us to a better world for all. Kotahitanga, whanaungatanga and manaakitanga to name a few. To pai hoki
"We are borne of the same womb. Tied in the bonds of humanity. Tied to the heavens above us. Tied to the earth beneath us. These are bonds that can never be severed." This. Goosebumps and tears. There were no spoken words more truthful.
@ElfWorksLane
3 жыл бұрын
"From this life to the next, we are but one family."
@jesuschrist7169
2 жыл бұрын
Unless you white 🤣
@tonigilsenan6320
2 жыл бұрын
@@jesuschrist7169 I'm guessing you're not white and mocking Jesus Christ I pity your soul.
Kuaka is the illustration that teaches us how when you have your leader and others that follow and benefit from the draft as the leader gets tired it falls back . A very wise teaching about the kuaka.
Thank you for sharing your story, your wisdom. Very thankful to be able to watch this!
Wow, this guy has every reason to be angry and he isn’t, powerful and moving talk.
@tonigilsenan6320
2 жыл бұрын
He knows where he comes from and who he represents what good will anger bring to you only more hurt and pain he speaks truth our ancestors carried that burden so we can walk and carry on in the hope that we teach our children and our children's children and the generations to come who they are and where they come from giving them Mana.
Tena koe Curtis, Thank you for sharing "our" story.
even tho you speak so ataahua, i feel your pain, nga mihinui kia koe, arohanui ihoa, tino pai rawa, ka mau te wehi, he whaikorero so full of your heart. you are a great man. thank u
Thats all our Native ways brother. You are very well spoken
beautiful speech. Thank you very much
Humanity endurance is amazing and how it gives hope...
Great talk, I love how he wove that central prisoner narrative through it, felt like I was watching a movie!!
ka mau te wehi e hoa. Thank you for that inspiration Curtis, a great example of how to use the past to build a stronger future.
Inspiring. Powerful. Solid. Thank you.
Very powerful speech
Your awesome my Brother.
Beautiful! 🌼♥️
Made me cry
@maatatua8728
4 жыл бұрын
Ae, sister...Spaces of indigenous intelligence innovative ... "He Whakapapa Korero, He Taonga Tuku Iho ... Dr Curtis Bristowe was on my Tikanga panel for my rangahau...Dr Hohepa Tamihana with my Kaiako (Dr. Kirsty Barber) approved my Rangahau and [sic Dr.] Shelly Hoani... an amazing experience ... of elite indigeneity, independent of secular knowledge...
Beautiful
Awesome
henlo hawking hehehehehe, laban lang mga mamiiii!
beautiful
This speech was was written very well and an excellent delivery but if I can summarise, the key points are (1) if you are united as a group and have clarity of purpose and you exercise that in an ethical manner you have a far greater chance of success. (2) Te Kooti and his people were very clever and principled to have escaped from Wharekauri. The speaker doesn't really explain how tikanga, kawa and kaupapa actually can provide answers to contemporary challenge, he simply speaks about them using superlatives without really providing much needed detail .
@djToniTontonNewZealand
4 жыл бұрын
Oh plz, you must listen, he clearly explains it. If your Maori, I am appalled if your non Maori, Thats ok, you are not listening, at 4minutes to 10 mins , LISTEN
@monicawells5402
4 жыл бұрын
@@djToniTontonNewZealand The kuaka metaphor relating the importance of collective leadership is not a something that is revolutionary. Its a korero that is actually very common in modern leadership models. just because you have found another metaphor for that concept doesn't make it any more hohonu. Maybe you are appalled because its all new to you . kei te pai. He pepe tonu koe. For us who have been around a while its pretty basic stuff really.
@WHANAUPEACE
4 жыл бұрын
@@monicawells5402 e te tuahine he tāonga te whakaiti, he tāonga hoki te awhinatanga. Ko te ahua nei he matatau koe i te reo pākeha, me önā tīkanga, ekene kua ngāro kē koe i te tāonga a ngāi Māori ko te whakaiti. Ekene kua mahue koe i te ngako o önā kauhau? Heoi tēnā koe mo to tirohanga.
@monicawells5402
4 жыл бұрын
@@WHANAUPEACE Kia Ora mo tēnā. Ae tika. Ko taku tirohanga noa iho. Kaore au e pirangi ki te whakaiti te tangata nei.Ko te ngako o tana korero me te hohonutanga te mea nui. Kua ngāro kē ahau pea i te tāonga a ngāi Māori engari Tēra a waho te kai tahi rā,tērā a roto te haehae kē rā
@Umuma871
8 күн бұрын
May be TED is waiting for you to call and offer that?? I for one would welcome it 🤗
Beautiful korero
Kia ora e hoa 🙌🙌
Tū Rēkohu i te āīō
Mauri ora e hika!
Mauri tū, mauri ora e te Ahorangi. Kua huri tāwhiao öku kare a roto ki te rongo atu ki to kauhau piki i te pouri, piki i te ora. Tēnā rawa koe.
2:45 Wow.
Tino ātaahua hoki tō kōrero, e hoa. Nga mihi
Word! Shot uce
Tena koe te rangatira ngā mihi nunui ngā mihi aroha mo to taonga korero.
anyone know the name of the bird mr. bristowe is speaking of?
@davidmclean9452
5 жыл бұрын
I think its called a godwit?
@Pewana
4 жыл бұрын
Kuaka = godwit.
I'm going to vote Green this election.
Society is well past arguing for or against aboriginality, indigeneity or community. They have their pro's and cons. However they are explanations for much deeper questions. Questions which politicians and business groups need to address. Likewise these much maligned groups need to realise they need to show some action for change eg learn their rights as voters and learn how the system works at the ground level. How they are being played by things that go bling like their t.v.s and their phones via ads...not the other bling they wear on their necks..they are just full time distractions from the real blings. Yes the poor and destitute need to start making their votes count. Turn off your bling things and go play in the park and vote the bad politicians out of your lives.