Kaitiakitanga & rahui: adding colour to Maori concepts

From Nine To Noon, 9:36 am on 13 November 2019
Iripareraukura Te Tai and team, winners of the Northland YES Young Enterprise Oral Business Pitch award.

Iripareraukura Te Tai and team, winners of the Northland YES Young Enterprise Oral Business Pitch award. Photo: Supplied

An enterprising book in Te Reo and English teaching the important Maori concepts of kaitiakitanga and rahui is just going into its second print run.

Te haerenga o Piri - Piri's Adventure - is a colouring book, designed by four Northland high school students, intended for much younger children and the adults who read it to them. 

Susie Ferguson speaks with Te Kura Taumata o Panguru student-turned-author Iripareraukura Te Tai - one of the Year 13s behind this book, launched under their business Nga Tai Awatea.  Kaiako Aaron McCloy, from Papa Taiao Moana Restoration also joins.