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There are multiple Government funded initiatives aimed at addressing Māori language decline, including increasing the amount of Māori Language spoken, maintenance and quality. Te Puni Kokiri (2006 Health of the Māori Language Report) touched on the attitudes of wider New Zealand society towards the Māori language as unengaging and unlikely to change in the immediate future (p.7).

The Hauraki Māori Trust Board and the Cawthron Institute are collaborating in this research project which stems from a spate of dog deaths on the beaches of Tīkapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) in August 2009. The dogs died from the poison tetrodotoxin (TTX) and this poison was present in sea slugs that had washed up on beaches.

Credit: Thanks to Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries for reproduction of photo 7-A12343 (Karioi Native School)

Tēnā koutou katoa. Please view this 2011 Waka Huia documentary on whare tapere - pre-European village 'houses' of storytelling, dance, games, music and other entertainments. Each year Ōrotokare convenes a summer whare tapere which is open to the public. This is an opportunity to share our experiments and explorations in whare tapere performance.

Part 2 of 2 The origins and history of Whare Tapere Waka Huia TVNZ 12 June 2011 In this episode Waka Huia will delve in to origins and history of Whare Tapere, pre-European pā based 'houses' of story telling, dance, music and games.