TANGAROA WHĀRIKI KIOKIO.

The text focuses on efforts to integrate Māori writers and voices into the English curriculum across schools in Aotearoa (New Zealand), emphasizing the importance of reflecting local Māori culture and language in education. It highlights a meeting of the English teachers’ council discussing this inclusion and features poet Robert Sullivan, an award-winning Māori writer and Associate Professor of Creative Writing, who advocates for decolonization and local Māori representation in literature. Additionally, it introduces Siena Ataahua Terimene-Simon, a year 11 student of Waikato Tainui descent, who incorporates Māori culture and language into her artwork, reflecting her passion for Te Reo Māori and Māori history.