The Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing Te Mauri – Pimatisiwin opens this general call for all papers on any aspects of Indigenous wellbeing. Volume 8(1) includes a theme of Ka Hao Te Rangatahi (The New Net Goes Fishing). A focus on the changing face of Indigenous leadership with rangatahi (youth) as future leaders, through succession planning and strategic actions, internationally.
The whakataukī or guiding Māori proverb behind the theme is Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi. As the old net withers, it is cast aside, and the new net takes its place. Meaning ‘a good net can be used right up to the point until it withers, and a new net must be prepared long before then so that it can be used immediately and the work can continue …We can all be part of the current net, while simultaneously learning and adjusting to become part of the new net. We can be our own succession plan.'[1]
In Aotearoa New Zealand we have a ‘Kohanga (language nest) generation’ becoming the change makers for the future. The realisation of the dreams of their elders. They are building a wellbeing consciousness in society from the perspectives of this generation. Respected twentieth century Māori leader Dame Mira Szászy (Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa) called upon young Māori to build a vision for the future founded on a new humanism, ‘a humanism based on ancient values but versed in contemporary idiom.’[2]
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[1] Excerpts from Pitama, S. (2024), Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 94: 1685-1686. https://doi.org/10.1111/ans.19219
[2] Szászy, M. (1993). Unpublished keynote speech at the Māori Graduation ceremony, Victoria University of Wellington. Cited in Henry E, Pene H. (2001). Kaupapa Maori: Locating Indigenous Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology in the Academy. Organization Speaking Out. Volume 8(2): 234–242. SAGE https://journals.sagepub.com/home/org
