Through the Voices of Indigenous Youth: Their Hopes, Dreams, Aspirations, and Challenges for the Future

• In Event: The Transformative Power of Indigenous Research: Realizing the Dream

Abstract

This paper draws from a project that is currently in progress across various rural and urban areas of New Zealand aimed at identifying how Māori youth (rangatahi) can be supported in the years ahead as they grapple with some of the ‘big’ questions, challenges and issues, (some of them potentially on an unprecedented scale and scope), that face their generation. Based on a kaupapa Māori perspective the focus of this paper from the larger study is on Māori youth from two small tribal areas in the North Island of New Zealand. The focus of this research is on the power of rangatahi to determine what will work for them now and in the future to make a difference.

Author

• Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Massey University