In the concluding lecture to the series, Sir (Tā) Tipene raised key questions about Indigenous cultural dreaming, asking ‘Moemoeā – after Te Kerēme, then what?’ Having demonstrated in lecture two that the Ngāi Tahu dream of economic and cultural recuperation was a challenge which was finally met after seven generations of struggle, O’Regan started issuing a new challenge for another, more positive dream for his iwi in the 21st century. He asked: ‘What do we want to be? Should we be at all? Is there any option? Who and what are the threats?’ Tā Tipene listed and analysed some contemporary myths and explores disturbing truths about retaining the structural and fiscal integrity of Ngāi Tahu within the fragile waka that is contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. O’Regan predicted a tidal ebb and flow in social acceptance of Treaty settlements and was a visionary for a positive and resilient tribal future to fight prejudice.
O’Regan et al. (Fri,) studied this question.