Treaty Education | Te tiriti o Waitangi Mātauranga

• Investigate the history of your ancestors and people. Learning about your own culture gives you an appreciation for others. 
• Learn what it means to be Tangata Tiriti - you have the opportunity to shift and create/reclaim what Pākehā might be - a diverse people with a rich history and culture that share a relationship with Māori; a people defined by living in Aotearoa and relating to Māori, not by being in opposition to Māori. 
• Watch the Radio New Zealand documentary series, Land of the Long White Cloud This documentary series tells the stories of non-Māori New Zealanders confronting their colonial past and present, 250 years after Cook’s arrival.
• Tackle racism with the right tools.  Take a look at this free course over at Tauiwi Tautoko.
• Have a conversation with those around you - this can help create a groundswell of understanding and knowledge. 
• Read broadly and from all perspectives. We've put together a list of books and online articles further down this page.
• Te Arawhiti - the office for Māori Crown relations, details six focus areas and five specialist competencies to support individuals to develop their own set of Māori Crown relations capability: Maori-Crown-Relations-Capability-Framework-Individual-Capability-Component.pdf(PDF, 417KB)

Waitaki District Libraries (WDL) has a strong commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi as agreed to by Māori and the British Crown in 1840.  We believe in leading by example, so we have created our own document, Haea Te Ata - Dawning of a New Day, as well as connecting you to a host of resources and readings on our website. 

WDL acknowledges that Te Tiriti o Waitangi sets out the relationship between hapū and the Crown, providing a place for all to belong and live here as Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti.

The foundation of our own bi-cultural commitment rests on four key values that define the intent of the Waitaki District Libraries' operations:             

• Manaakitanga – Caring for one another - the place we work, the people we work with, work for and the things we use.  Manaakitanga is the key to excellent service delivery through respect, generosity and care.  It ties people together to create a sense of community.
• Whanaungatanga – We are connected to one another - we work together, respect and support one another, and establish strong connections with our community.  Collaboration, partnerships, co-operation and support - how we work with one another are all aspects of Whanaungatanga.
• Kaitiakitanga – Particular responsibilities as guardians of knowledge - to protect and preserve resources, library taonga, customers and those we work with.
• Māramatanga – Knowing and understanding our resources - maintaining and growing our professional knowledge so we can impart this to our community.  Through māramatanga, we are able to provide excellent service delivery.

If your organisation is ready to start identifying ways in which it can commit to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the website Groundwork has some really great ideas on how to do this.

You can also work with the following document - Māori Crown Relations Capability Framework, which details six organisational capability areas, such as governance, relationships with Māori and workforce capability: TA013.04-MCR-capability-OCC.pdf(PDF, 351KB)

• The Matike Mai Report outlines a vision for a constitution that honours Te Tiriti - read it here: https://www.converge.org.nz/pma/MatikeiMaiAotearoaReport.pdf
• Also have a read of He Puapua - a plan to realise New Zealand's commitment to the UN declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People: https://www.nzcpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/He-Puapua.pdf

• Take a look at the Māori Crown Relations Capability Framework for the Public Service.

• And last, take a look at Aotearoa New Zealand's History Curriculum.