Maranga Mai! Educate to liberate “Education is critical in reframing and repositioning justice. Racism should not have a 200-year free run” (Halkyard-Harawira, 2021). Truth forums, in the way Tina Ngata described, are important in realising this, and the teaching of history must be informed by Māori perspectives. Such histories must lay bare the impacts of colonisation, racism, and white supremacy upon iwi and hapū: This would include having an independent, sufficiently resourced Māori Education Authority to support Kaupapa Māori schooling. This is critical as Kaupapa Māori student numbers in Te Tai Tokerau are to double over the next decade. This is about investing wisely in our tamariki so they don’t end up in prisons or intolerant of each other (Halkyard-Harawira, 2021). Direct action Direct action to respond to and challenge colonisation, racism, and white supremacy are important in the assertion of tino rangatiratanga, as Ihumātao and internationally, the Dakota Access Pipeline, have shown (see Smithsonian Institution, 2018; Meador, 2016). So long as the settler-colonial status quo remains, this will continue to be an effective method of resistance: We try and influence the political system, and if that doesn’t work, then [our recourse is to] direct action – which has been a key form of resistance and tino rangatiratanga. Parliament is a Pākehā institution. There is a lack of implementation of Te Tiriti in the law, and when those laws fail us, those institutions of white supremacy, then our last hope is to band together and jump on this platform and try to resist (Snelgar, 2021). Constitutional recommendations 104 The following secondary recommendations could be further explored and developed within the National Action Plan Against Racism Plan. See Appendix One for the full list. The government consider the following actions: • Reform central and local government legislation, systems, and policies to include recognition of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti) and to eliminate racism. • Government provides more support for whānau to navigate and engage with central and local government and its systems (including education, health, employment, and justice) to achieve equality of outcomes for Māori. • Reform and strengthen the Human Rights Act to give full effect to Te Tiriti. • Support the Human Rights Commission to become Tiriti-based and hold a stronger mandate to uphold Te Tiriti, Māori human and Indigenous rights, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to eliminate and report authentically and fully on racism. • Explore the establishment of a new Māori Education Authority to deliver kaupapa Māori education and support traditional ways of learning for Māori. • Review the unilaterally forced “full and final” Treaty Settlements policy as inflicting continuing injustice on tangata whenua Māori. • Review and reform central and local government legislation and policies to return dispossessed land to iwi, hapū and whānau and improve the way that whenua Māori owners can access, develop and live on their land.