Whispers of Waitaha : Traditions of a Nation

Our elder grandmothers instructed the teachers of the families to: "hide our nation, hide our information, hide our belief systems in the wananga of silence, to wait the time of Tumstswera..."

The teachers kept everything hidden in the mokopuna. The grandchild became the nation's library and all information was concealed inside the minds of the mokopuna.

Whispers of Waitaha: traditions of a nation tells simply of the oral transfer of information from grandparent to grandchild. This transfer, allowing for the "moko", design and the "puna", pool, to hold onto not only the physical attributes of transfer, but for the grandchild to become aware of the great pools of memory that reside universally.

Our wisdom keepers have long realised and teach continually that we will never lose our story, therefore we will never lose our dream of the future.