| The pito or umbilical cord symbolically tied that child to its tribe, its whanau, its hapu, and the land it inherited. |
| They always provided the best of opportunities for their children as well as caring for their extended whanau and the Temuka community. |
| When I arrived at the Waikare estuary, my whanau were exercising a traditional historical exercise of catching flounder. |
| It may be helpful from the perspective of medicine to consider wairua and whanau as health determinants. |
| We need a much more whanau centred approach, rather than a clinical, hospital-based approach. |
| They will also be able to see how their families and whanau interacted with the Government. |
