Ngā Mihi / Acknowledgments
A guide like this can never be produced without the help of the community it aims to serve and inform. For this Playmarket and I are eternally thankful to those who have instilled their mana, (status), matauranga, (knowledge) and mauri (life force) into the underlying text. It has been a fruitful journey of kōrerorero (conversation) and sharing of whakaaro (thinking).
Special thanks for their personal contributions, encouragement and advice has to go to Cian Elyse White, Tānemahuta Gray, Nicola Hyland, Kura and Beez Te Waati, Acushla Tara Kupe, Maaka Pohatu, Renae Maihi, Waimihi Hotere, Taiaroa Royal, Amanda Hereaka, Noa Campbell, Merenia Gray, Toa Waaka, Jack Gray, Amber Cureen, Regan Taylor, Bronwyn Turei, Kura Forrester, Tamati Patuwai, Tama Waipara, Edward Peni, David Mamea, Albert Belz, Mere Boynton, Toni Huata, Trae Te Wiki, Taungaroa Emile, Reuben Butler, Makerita Urale, Teokotai Paitai, Karin Williams, Sarita So, Renee Liang, Alice Canton, Lynda Chanwai Earle, Cassandra Tse, Mei Lin Te Puea Hansen, Nina Nawalowalo, Mishelle Muagututi'a, Fine Lavoni Koloamatangi, Miria George, Victor Rodger, Leki Jackson-Burke, Te Hau Winitana, Eteuati Ete, Salesi Le'ota, Anton Carter, Fasitua Amosa, Tanya Muagututi'a, Eric Ngan, Dione Joseph, Yee Yang Square and Sums Selvarajan, present and past board members of Te Aho Whakaari in particular Dr Ella Henry and the late great Melissa Wikaire who were the writing force behind their fantastic tikanga resource: The Brown Book (based on the original work by the brilliant Bradford Haami), members of the Asia New Zealand Foundation such as Adele Mason, Masina Tulapapa, Simon Draper, Pip McLachland and the fantastic Yuni Tok resource by Massey University not to mention countless other institutions and individuals who dedicated their time, knowledge, and expertise to this overall kaupapa (project).
He mihi maioha ki ōku nei tīpuna, i tautoko mai i runga i tēnei haerenga.
A guide like this can never be produced without the help of the community it aims to serve and inform. For this Playmarket and I are eternally thankful to those who have instilled their mana, (status), matauranga, (knowledge) and mauri (life force) into the underlying text. It has been a fruitful journey of kōrerorero (conversation) and sharing of whakaaro (thinking).
Special thanks for their personal contributions, encouragement and advice has to go to Cian Elyse White, Tānemahuta Gray, Nicola Hyland, Kura and Beez Te Waati, Acushla Tara Kupe, Maaka Pohatu, Renae Maihi, Waimihi Hotere, Taiaroa Royal, Amanda Hereaka, Noa Campbell, Merenia Gray, Toa Waaka, Jack Gray, Amber Cureen, Regan Taylor, Bronwyn Turei, Kura Forrester, Tamati Patuwai, Tama Waipara, Edward Peni, David Mamea, Albert Belz, Mere Boynton, Toni Huata, Trae Te Wiki, Taungaroa Emile, Reuben Butler, Makerita Urale, Teokotai Paitai, Karin Williams, Sarita So, Renee Liang, Alice Canton, Lynda Chanwai Earle, Cassandra Tse, Mei Lin Te Puea Hansen, Nina Nawalowalo, Mishelle Muagututi'a, Fine Lavoni Koloamatangi, Miria George, Victor Rodger, Leki Jackson-Burke, Te Hau Winitana, Eteuati Ete, Salesi Le'ota, Anton Carter, Fasitua Amosa, Tanya Muagututi'a, Eric Ngan, Dione Joseph, Yee Yang Square and Sums Selvarajan, present and past board members of Te Aho Whakaari in particular Dr Ella Henry and the late great Melissa Wikaire who were the writing force behind their fantastic tikanga resource: The Brown Book (based on the original work by the brilliant Bradford Haami), members of the Asia New Zealand Foundation such as Adele Mason, Masina Tulapapa, Simon Draper, Pip McLachland and the fantastic Yuni Tok resource by Massey University not to mention countless other institutions and individuals who dedicated their time, knowledge, and expertise to this overall kaupapa (project).
He mihi maioha ki ōku nei tīpuna, i tautoko mai i runga i tēnei haerenga.