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At my Te Reo class at Te Wananga o Aotearoa last week we had an interesting discussion when we were writing our mihimihi and pepeha - who has the right to 'adopt' a maunga, an awa a place as that of their ancestors? Many 4th & 5th generation kiwis had ancestors that came to Aotearoa and made their lives here. They settled in places that have maunga, awa, moana - they may well have come from overseas and still have connections with places in their countries of birth. But what about their descendants who have known nowhere else? For whom the maunga , awa, moana, kainga are in Aotearoa where they have always lived and where generations have lived. At what point can they claim them as where their roots are? All Māori are also descended from tipuna in Hawaiki across the ocean - they whakapapa back to them but their pepeha describes connections in Aotearoa.

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It's about being a Bi-cultural nation regardless of the tamariki that sit in front of them.

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What does Local Curriculum actually mean - do we need to define that term first - get participants to unpack it and link to NZC and the leading local curriculum guides..

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A BOT member who is also a parent:
The school takes yr 9 out to the local marae for a noho at the beginning of the year; students learn about Māori culture, tikanga

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Sole Rūmaki teacher in an English medium school.

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This is a powerful story... show how important it is that we know that our stories are there even if we have been disconnected...

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Stories are so important - I think that’s why pākeha are sometimes resistant - they don’t know what their stories are or don’t think they have any…

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Te Kererū kua he kopū nui

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Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngāhere. Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga nōna te ao.