Who wrote what?

I wrote most of the material, sometimes because I felt motivated, other times whilst working for Rangitāne o Wairarapa or under a contract somewhere else. 

The times spent at Rangitāne were not so straight forward as an employer employee relationship. I often wrote proposals, managed and worked a project whilst communicating with kaumatua throughout the duration. In these and other situations they were happy to see work done under the organisation's umbrella, but the intellectual property remain with me.

I write this for reassurance that I am able to use and distribute material. Most of that material was produced for educational purposes.

Direct acknowledgements are given to other authors where their work is used.

There are some adaptions of very old Māori stories too, some that were recorded by European ethnographers but  of course came from Māori sources and were known widely in one form version or another.

Joseph Potangaroa