I acknowledge the presence of our Moriori relatives, the waina pono of Rēkohu, of Rangihaute, of Hokorereoro, and of the islands that make up the Chatham Islands. I acknowledge your karāpuna, Rongomaiwhenua, and the many ancestors that have kept your story of resilience, your song of truth, belonging, alive, and well. I acknowledge the tenacity of your karāpuna, Tommy Solomon, and his legacy to ensure his people, the Moriori, the waina pono, were not exterminated by the colonial history books or by the lens of early ethnographers, colonial historians, and educators that deliberately classed Moriori as extinct, and racially distinct from and inferior to Māori, in their School Journals—the impact still haunting imi waina pono today, and also Māori, for that matter. This history needs correcting to ensure that the colonials' misconception of false history and kōrero of the Moriori can be told and honoured. 