Enacting indigenous space: weaving our place

Enacting indigenous space: weaving our place

Enacting Indigenous space is not only a matter of decolonisation but also a matter of anticolonial
resistance (Mahuika, 2008; Pihama et al, 2004; Smith, 2000). As we continue to practice the ways of knowing, being and doing of our ancestors, we bring forward the past,
into the now and thus become the future. Within Kaupapa Māori many moments provide a space for the meeting of the yesterday, the now and the tomorrow. The current revival and
dissemination of Māori weaving practices within Australia is focused on the restoration of the rights of Māori people and the continued development of tino rangatiratanga, self-determination and sovereignty for all Māori people beyond the shores of Aotearoa, New Zealand. This work explores the experience of the alignment of past, present and future, through relational autoethnographic moments. In particular the relational moments experienced when women weave kākahu, clothing and korowai, cloaks. Employing the
writing method of threes by Richardson (2014), I explore the embodied experience of this meeting of moments, when three moments become the simultaneous one. Thus producing
the healing space where past traumas are transformed.

Abstract only, published.