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Dr Hēmi Whaanga is Professor and Head of School of Te Pūtahi-a-Toi - School of Māori Knowledge at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Hēmi has been involved, in various capacities as a project leader, writer and researcher, in a range of linguistic, indigenous Māori knowledge and curriculum projects. He has published in the areas of indigenous Māori knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, language revitalisation, linguistics, language teaching and curriculum development. He holds a PhD (Linguistics/ Māori), MA (Applied) from the University of Waikato. His tribal affiliations are Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha.