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WHO IS LEO KOZIOL?

San Francisco, April 2001

Am I an oxymoron? Dame Kiri said that all Maori are lazy at home on the dole. That means I'm not really Maori, right? Can a sickly brown liberal ever live up to the standards of the Hongi Snobs? Am I doomed to forever dwell on the Faux Iwi fringes? Whanau today face the dilemma of raising tamariki in a Jihad vs. McWorld diaspora of traditional collective tikanga vs. modern atomised western life. Modern models of success are anathema to our culture—yet economic achievement is critical to our future. We must begin by examining the essentials of who we are. Where we grew up. Where we are from. Go back to the Ahi Kaa, and commence a process of reconciliation.

Who am I? I am Leo Koziol, and I am from Nuhaka. Welcome to my world.

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Self professed Maori intellectual Leo Koziol (Rakaipaaka, Kahungunu) writes on identity, spirit, culture, politics, place and ecology in Aotearoa NZ in the 21st Century. Sanctuary Aotearoa brings together for the first time all of Leo Koziol's writing, originally posted to Scoop.co.nz under the banner of Naked in Nuhaka.

This website expands on his original writings, in the form of a weblog, essays, and reviews (including tour & travel guides).

This website is also the homesite of The Rautaki Group, a design and whakaaro ("think-tank") collective and consultancy founded by Leo Koziol.
Nuhaka is located on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Leo Koziol's full biography will be posted here very soon.

For now, why not just explore...?

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WHAKAPAPA

KAHUNGUNU           =         RONGOMAIWAHINE
KAHUKURANUI       =         TUTEIHONGA
RAKAIPAAKA          =         TURAMAKINA
KAUKOHEA             =          MAWATE
TUTEKANAO             =         TAMATEAHIRAU
TUREIA                      =         HINE KIMIHANGA
(1) RANGITOHUMARE = TEHUKI = (2) TE ROPUHINA
Two lines descend from this point

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PURUAOAUTE                                                          TE REHU
MATAITAI A PURAOAUTE                         TE AIHURANGI
TE MIMITI O TE RANGI                                           TAMAWHETI
TE RATAU                                                                  TE KAURU
IHAKA WHAANGA                                                  KATAUMAHARAU
HIRINI WHAANGA                                         TE MATENGAWAITANIWHA
MIHI WHAANGA                                                      TE RUIHI MATENGA
SIDNEY WHAANGA CHRISTY                                       |
                        |                                                                       |
   WILLIAM HENRY CHRISTY = HEENI BLUCK- MATENGA METE
             HUIA KAPORANGI CHRISTY = LEO JOSEPH KOZIOL 
                      LEO KOZIOL = ANJELIQUE REPIA RYFLE
                                    JORDAN KOZIOL REPIA

Tamaki Makaurau , January 2008