Shepherdess’ Post

"Growing up, I was really just surrounded by my grandparents and my mum, so in terms of family, all I remember was it being small and intimate. In a lot of ways, I felt like my grandparents had removed themselves from that family structure, which wasn’t uncommon. I think urbanisation forced them to go the cities and hustle for their families. In 2017, that was the first time we had ever gone back to our marae, back to our whānau, and that was the first time I had met a lot of my grandmother’s siblings and all my cousins – so very recently we have started to make that reconnection." When Jasmine Jones (Ngāruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauruu Kiitahi, Tainui, Cook Island-Tongareva) moved from Pōneke Wellington to Pātea in 2020, it was on a whim – a deeply intuitive one, it turned out. As well as connecting her to her whakapapa, the move has brought Jasmine and her whānau great peace and abundance, and allowed her to focus on empowering people’s connections to their wairua, culture and community. Continue reading: https://lnkd.in/gA4jt7z5 Writer: As Told To Arpége Taratoa (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ruakawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Rārua) Photographer: Michelle Porter

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