An outline of a PhD exploring how hauora Maori communities used matauranga and tikanga Maori as constructive engagement mechanisms for practicing co-operative co-existence with non-Maori through creating community unique health models – how their health models resulted in Maori and non-Maori living together differently through health developments in their communities. It conceptualised these as indigeneity models for indigenous and non-indigenous peoples to co-operatively co-exist.