Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 30, 2016 17:20:34 GMT 12
DAWN CEREMONY MARKS RETURN OF APPLEBY SCHOOL LAND TO NGATI KUIA
Elders from the Ngati Kuia iwi arrive and Dave Johnson performs a karakia.
The iwi group, pupils, parents and staff then move to the school entrance and gather around a pakohe stone (argillite) is covered by a korowai (cloak) that has been hand-made by all of the children at the school.
As the audience listens attentively, Ngati Kuia's Billy Wilson blesses the ground, and two pupils unveil the stone that symbolises the school's connection to its Maori heritage.
In 2015, a Treaty of Waitangi settlement recognised the land Appleby School is on as culturally significant to the Ngati Kuia tribe.
The land the school stands on, originally a garden for travelling Maori, has now been returned to the iwi…..
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/81603304/dawn-ceremony-marks-return-of-appleby-school-land-to-ngati-kuia
Elders from the Ngati Kuia iwi arrive and Dave Johnson performs a karakia.
The iwi group, pupils, parents and staff then move to the school entrance and gather around a pakohe stone (argillite) is covered by a korowai (cloak) that has been hand-made by all of the children at the school.
As the audience listens attentively, Ngati Kuia's Billy Wilson blesses the ground, and two pupils unveil the stone that symbolises the school's connection to its Maori heritage.
In 2015, a Treaty of Waitangi settlement recognised the land Appleby School is on as culturally significant to the Ngati Kuia tribe.
The land the school stands on, originally a garden for travelling Maori, has now been returned to the iwi…..
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/81603304/dawn-ceremony-marks-return-of-appleby-school-land-to-ngati-kuia