Week 10: Locating Moana Oceania
IN PERSON LECTURE
What time and when: 2:45pm - 5pm on the 3rd of October 2022
Where: Te Papa Museum (Tangata o le Moana)
With whom: Nesi, Ferina and Neriah
Absent: Micah
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Short notes I took from the given document:
- personal identity
- social lives
- family
- villages evolution
- domination of lives
- when you identify as a cultural identity you don't refer to its other terms? (Example: I'm Tongan, not an islander)
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Given location in the exhibition: Case histories
DAWN RAIDS
- 1970s
- overstayed temporary work permits
- illegal migrants
- fair game
Event: The dawn raids in the 1970s was a campaign involved random street checks and raids on homes and workplaces at dawn.
It's significance: It is the result of the NZ government getting tough on pacific islanders because of overstayed work permits. Anyone who looked 'Polynesian' was fair game.
Is eventually led to enforcement methods and stigmatizing of Pacific people as overstayers to this very day.
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OTHER EVENTS THAT CONNECT TO THE 'DAWN RAIDS' LIKE A CLUSTER
PACIFIC UNEMPLOYMENT
- The 1950s - 1970s
Unskilled labour was needed for its manufacturing and processing industries. The mass migration of workers was encouraged for closures and restructuring in the 1980s. Between 1986 to 1991, it rose from 6.6 per cent to 28 per cent because of the unemployment among the pacific people in Aotearoa.
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New Zealand citizenship for Samoans
- Falema'i lesa
- 1924 - 1948 western samoans were NZ citizen.
- agreement
- rights
- racist betrayal
In 1920 till 1962, Samoans could legally live in Aotearoa, but their status has been unclear since 1962.
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Political instability
- 1987: Siti veni Rabuka
- Coup 1: ousted the government
- Coup 2: deposed Fiji's Governer-general who was trying to negotiate a solution to a crisis
- rejected the British monarch
- declared as a republic
- 1987: political power
- result: indo-fijians left the country seeking new lives in NZ
- political volatility continued
- 2000: George Speight
- 2006: Commodore Frank Baini Marama
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GROUP SESSION
Time and when: 12:30pm -, 5th of October 2022
Where: Fale
With whom: Micah and Ferina
Absent: Nesi and Neriah
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We confirmed all of our layers and finished the mind Map.
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We have decided where, how many, how much is the cost and how to acquire the pizza boxes for the installation. Started to write paragraphs for display on the website for the layers.
Notes:
Installation:
How many layers (pizza boxes) each? - Ferina (4), TeWai (4), Micah (4) (Questionable: Nesi (6), Neriah (3)) possible amount of pizza boxes is17 to 21.
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In my own time, for one of the layers 'raukura' I contacted the maker of a specific piece to explain to me its story. The original creator is Miriama Ainsley, the principal of the kura I attended before I arrived at Massey.
- Swinging red feather to signify what a leader does as the steerer of the waka of Te Raua (Te Raua is the name of the high school of TKKM o Ngāti Kahungunu o Te Wairoa).
- Five red pheasant feathers to symbolise the pillars of the kura to shelter the performers to stand proudly on stage.
- And white feathurs are the tipuna protecting them
