from November 2024 Newsletter

Kaia Hawkins ( she.they.ia) is the founder of Manahau Embodied Movement. She is an Open Floor International teacher, an artist, a creator and a Mama. Kaia is of Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngā Ruahine and British whakapapa. She dances with the land of Ngāti Haumia on the Kapiti Coast, Aotearoa. NewZealand

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This waiata/song talks about the colonial theft of land and culture, and as an Indigenous teacher I love to centre indigenous musicians. This song in particular allows you to dance with awareness of the truth.
The lyrics say - 'somebody stole our land, and everyone knows who did it'. I loop it there for a while. Because we all know who did it, and that is a good pathway into acknowledgement, decolonisation, re- indigenisation, and good relationship.

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