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“Decolonizing emotions is a multilayered process - revitalising languages, resisting and resurgence, being a good relation, being a good ancestor” Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama at Dr Megan Bang’s research workshop Django Paris #decolonizingemotions

“There is a politics around place names and the naming of places, & reclaiming our deeper understandings of place” “Emotional relationships to land” Dr Naomi Simmonds @nbsimmonds123 talking with Dr Megan Banks Megan Banks Django Paris #decolonizingemotions #IndigenousResearch

“Elders named the restoration of the communal meeting house ‘Strengthen the house strengthen the family’” Naomi Simmonds sharing wisdom on #decolonizingemotions @nbsimmonds123 Megan Banks Leonie Pihama Django Paris

“Teachings that came from ceremonial practices came from inside and outside of our long house and inside and outside of our territories” Dr Sarah Hunt shares her knowledge journey with Dr Megan Bang Django Paris Leonie Pihama #decolonizingemotions

Pākeha Entitlement to Moko Kauwae, and Other Territorial Incursions. thenonplasticmaori.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/pak…

Honoured to be invited to share & yarn this morning with Prof Bonnie Duran in Community-Based Participatory Research class for Health and Social Equity University of Washington Bonnie Duran Leonie Pihama @thesarahhunt @nbsimmonds123 #decolonizingemotions #IndigenousResearch

"How do we make meaning of this research in our communities? We make meaning outside of these four walls through the land, it is deeply relational" @JJDeSantolo Leonie Pihama Bonnie Duran privileged to be presenting alongside amazing indigenous activist academics.

"we are eternal warriors on our land" @JJDeSantolo Leonie Pihama Bonnie Duran Tautoko!!

“Everything we do Kotahi Te Pou is in meaningful partnerships and collaborations with our community” Bonnie Duran Leonie Pihama @thesarahhunt @nbsimmonds123 #decolonizingemotions #IndigenousResearch

Leonie Pihama on researchers coming to mine our communities for their own agendas- "that kind of research has always been dangerous for our communities, it still is dangerous for our communities, because it is decontextualised, ahistorical and generally apolitical" Leonie Pihama

“Bring our own [Indigenous] methodological frameworks forward and reclaim and recitalist and reassert our our cultural reality” Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama global decolonising research movement - self determination, sovereignty, honouring treaties #decolonizingemotions

NZ comes from Abel Tasman it is a name with no connection ~ North Island is actually Te Ika A Maui & South Island is Te Wai Pounamu or Te Waka a Maui~Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama flipping the world Bonnie Duran “Our stories tell us how we see the world” #decolonizingemotions

Sarah Hunt shares the history of research as a colonial assertion of worldview - tool of theft in her community historically - reframing the research process through her PHD work Bonnie Duran Leonie Pihama @nbsimmonds123 #decolonizingemotions #IndigenousResearch

"We are all ancestors in this room... we need to be careful about what we do. We need to walk carefully on this land and be intentional in what we do" - Leonie Pihama delivering decolonising gems to a social work class of 50 at University of Washington.

"If you only focus on an individual then you will never heal the collective. You will just move from one individual to another individual. That approach will not heal a collective soul wound" - Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama

"we should be appauled and enraged that we have schooling that don't even teach about the history of the lands that we are walking on" - Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama

"Transformation comes in many forms - and so the question to you is - what is your contribution to transformation?" - Leonie Pihama Leonie Pihama