New Zealand midwifery education would continue to train the colonised in the image of the coloniser. Although, Māori and Pākehā midwifery graduate knowledge and clinical skills were the same; in practice, the multiple faces of racism would continue to perpetrate Māori midwives as subpar to their Pākehā midwifery counterparts. Bottom line, assimilate or fail. The purpose of this rangahau is to engage with the knowledge differently and accumulate in a three-tiered approach. Firstly, it returned Our First Mothers. an indigenous midwifery philosophy of Aotearoa back into our lands, and embedded tapuhitanga as a counternarrative to Pākehā midwifery. Secondly, Pūrākau was affirmed as the rangahau method to speak back to the imaginings of both Māori and Pākehā assumptions of the Maori midwifery phenomenon. Lastly, three distinctive threads of perspectives were woven into the rangahau; Te Pūrākau o Te Ira Atua (collective of knowledge holders), Te Pūrākau o Te Ira Tupuna (Indigenous birth workers) and, Te Pūrākau o Te Ira Tangata (the voices of Tihei Mauri Ora and Direct Entry Midwifery graduates 1996 - 2016).