Abstract
The Covid pandemic reminds us of the bad effects of contact with outside civilisations - colonisation of (is)lands, bodies, minds and spirits. In colonised Pasifika, natives were dispossessed and shunned; but in the ‘new normal’, Native wisdom could heal theological and hermeneutical tasks. Seeing the practices of contextualisation as tools for the colonial and missionary projects, this article presents talanoa (orality, oratory) and kautaha (working together) as native Pasifika practices that encourage interaction and collaboration (desperately needed in Covid’s lockdown and isolationist new normal). Talanoa and kautaha are the heart and soul of going native and reStorying (retell, reimagine, repurpose).
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