Hauora kotahitanga – Maori health experiences as models for co-operative co-existence

Hauora kotahitanga – Maori health experiences as models for co-operative co-existence between indigenous and non-indigenous people: The complexities for Maori in creating health and disability organisations based on their traditional knowledge and practices, when the institutions and systems they are dealing with for health developments are non-Maori, are part of the broader phenomenon of contemporary indigenous knowledge based developments. 

This thesis examines the relationships forming between the worlds of Maori and non-Maori peoples through hauora Maori. The purpose of this study is to examine Maori experiences of the development and delivery of indigenous knowledge based hauora Maori models, and to consider these experiences conceptually as models for kotahitanga (co-operative co-existence) between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.