23rd Annual NAIITS Symposium: Caleb Haurua

‘He Tūpuna Pai’ Being a Good Ancestor Among Settler Colonisers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Caleb Tangaroa Haurua is a doctoral candidate at NAIITS specialising in the intersections of Māori language reclamation, Indigenous Christian spirituality, and decolonial ecclesial praxis. His current PhD project, “He Tai Timu, He Tai Pari: An Ebbing Tide, A Returning Tide – Decolonising Christian Spirituality through Māori Language Reclamation”, explores how Māori epistemologies and linguistic revitalisation shape contemporary Māori Christian identity and practice, while interrogating the theological, structural, and epistemic dimensions of whiteness in settler-colonial churches. His work contributes to critical conversations on race, authority, and indigenous agency within global contexts.