He Reo Tuku Iho: Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Mori

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Reclaiming a language is a slow-burning process, both deeply personal and intricately connected to the socio-economic, historical and political conditions in which we live.

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Awanui Te Huia (Ngti Maniapoto) is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Mori Studies Te Kawa a Mui. She has a PhD in psychology that focuses on factors that support heritage language development for Mori learners of te reo Mori. As well as focusing on Mori language learning, she also researches the ways in which Mori and Pkeh learn about colonial history, and how such knowledge contributes to our concepts of biculturalism in Aotearoa. In 2019, for Te Mtwai, she led the project Manawa ki te reo Mori.