Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Pomona Senior Theses Pomona Student Scholarship 2018 Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Okahu Bay: Investigation of the Cultural, Social, and Environmental Restoration Emily Freilich Recommended Citation Freilich, Emily, "Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Okahu Bay: Investigation of the Cultural, Social, and Environmental Restoration" (2018). Pomona Senior Theses. 188. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/188 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Pomona Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pomona Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Restoration of Mauri to Ōkahu Bay Emily Freilich BA Thesis in Environmental Analysis Pomona College December 2017 1 Abstract Indigenous peoples around the world are increasingly taking control of their lands and applying management practices that fit with their cultural, social, and ecological knowledges and needs. At the same time, environmental restoration practitioners and scholars are also increasingly calling for authentic community participation in environmental restoration. This thesis investigated the restoration of mauri (life-force) to Ōkahu Bay, Auckland New Zealand. Ōkahu Bay is part of the land and waters of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, a Māori hapū (sub-tribe). The mauri of Ōkahu Bay has been severely degraded in the past century from the impacts of colonization,