He Kōrero Whānau is a component of a wider whānau and hapū development project within Te Rarawa, an iwi located in the Far North of Aotearoa. It aimed to prepare and support whānau and hapū to record their own histories, and in doing so to develop research methods and strategies to suit Te Rarawa purposes and realities. The innovation of
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Innovation as Necessity: Te Rarawa and the Challenges of Multi-Purpose Research
Wendy Henwood, Aroha Harris
One of the major factors affecting not only iwi (tribal) research but also iwi development generally is compartmentalisation of – for example – funding, service provision, service and research contracts, government agencies and policy making. This article shares some of the research stories and lessons arising from the integration of those individual projects into a single research programme – Ngā