Name: Laura

Reading: Potiki, Patricia Grace

Why did you want to read this? Potiki is a novel about indigenous land rights in Aotearoa New Zealand, it follows a Māori community who's ancestral land is under threat. It was published in 1986 but Māori are still facing the same issues as the current government has introduced a bill that limits the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, Aotearoa New Zealand's founding document. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a gift, and must be protected. 

How did you record yourself? On my laptop in a room with pink walls that looks over the back garden. I am a secondary school teacher and usually have to manage behaviour and circle the classroom while reading aloud, it was nice to sit and be still, to have my mind only on the words.