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| What values or points of view do they hold as
Tokelauans? |
Why do they support those values (points of view)? |
What aspects of their way of life have they adapted from traditional Tokelauan to support their points of view? |
What aspects have they changed from
traditional Tokelauan to support their points of view? |
What effect have they had on Tokelauan Society with any adaptations or changes they have made? |
TOLISE
- Everyone cared for & Sharing
food
- Respect for Elders
- People should return to Tokelau to use skills to help
- Looking after children
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- To help people in need stay alive
- Key to working together
- Maintaining Tokelau way of life and need skills for survival
- Sense of family
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- Visits to the elderly to share
food
- As a policewoman -Guided by Fono
- Policing skills used to enhance
Tokelauan way of helping
- Involved in school activities
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- Leaving Tokelau for education
career, developing skills as a professional policewoman
- Adopting a son
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- Supported traditional Tokelauan ways
- Outside knowledge of help &
support
- Opened way for other single Tokelauan
women to adopt
- Women can attend Fono
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- Family living and working together
*Keeping Tokelauan tradition
- Children should have the opportunity to leave Tokelau but should
return
HEGALO
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- Work together, support each other
- Sharing out fish-inati feeding
men-hokopuku
- Wants her children free to make own decisions but should return to help each other
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- Returning to look after the needs
of her family instead of her own needs as in N.Z.
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- As a modern Tokelauan woman using
specialist skills acquired in her own education in NZ in the
Tokelauan cash economy
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- Her work supports the Tokelauan
economy
- Maintaining family traditions
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- Village system based on the family-community working
together
- Cash economy helpful but not good
for Tokelauans
- Tokelau should be modernised not westernised
- Living today is better because it is easier but old ways should be
maintained
FALIMA
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- Everyone has jobs, elders can control jobs and
community
- Changed way of working together
- Need people to come back and share their skills but also move with the times.
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- Supported women as decision makers
in the Fono.
- Supports modernising
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- Children got to school on the Island with a N.Z. education system.
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- Worked with other elders to allow Tolise and other women to be a part of the Fono.
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- Traditional skills should be maintained and not
lost
- Imported food and shops not good for people
- Not necessary to travel away for an education -Tokelauan ways need to be
taught
PUKA
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- People can be self reliant
- Big impact on diet-causing disease- diabetes, heart
- People forget food gathering skills
to get fresh food
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- Technologies used to support traditions e.g. aluminium dinghy for fishing, plastic buckets, nylon nets
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- Pass on traditional Tokelauan skills to keep culture
alive
- Support community at times of need e.g. inati before hurricane season
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