Te Tiriti 2024 and beyond | Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i - Being better partners

Faumuina hails from Samoa and is an advocate for Te Tiriti. She shares her thoughts about using education to enable greater allyship from both tangata Moana “why we shouldn’t let our cousins be pushed around”, and from all tangata tiriti. In this episode, Faumauina shares practical advice from the tool she co-developed, "17 habits of a valued treaty partner” a framework for becoming a better Te Tiriti ally.

Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i

Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i hails from the villages of Fasito’o-Tai, Asaga and Mulifanua in Samoa. She is a voyager, strategist and poet. Faumuina is CEO and Founder of Flying Geese which uses a framework based on celestial navigation and voyaging that she developed under the guidance of tohunga Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr. Flying Geese creates and delivers programmes to support indigenous peoples in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic planning, and suicide prevention. Her book, My Grandfather is a Canoe, has been adapted for the stage and won multiple awards since its debut in March 2022. She was also the first Pacific Islander to become an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

–Tauiwi tautoko – resources –Flying Geese website –17 Habits of a Valued Treaty Partner