Others involved included Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal, Aroha Harris, Monty Soutar, Ailsa Smith, John Delamare, Tui Macdonald, Danny Keenan and Buddy Mikaere.
[2][4] Members are Māori people interested in history and includes authors, librarians, museum workers, iwi researchers and those who are studying or working at universities.
[8] These events bring together new and experienced members and questions such as ways the past can be researched, theorised, "and connected to the realities of home, marae (spiritual and cultural meeting place), and people".
Contributors included Monty Soutar, Margaret Mutu, Carwyn Jones, Rangimarie Mahuika, Erin Keenan and Arini Loader.
[14] Aroha Harris described the release of the journal as "a special event to encourage educators across the country to give it [the curriculum] the mana and care it deserves.
Harris suggested that notwithstanding debates about compulsion, a well-resourced curriculum could be effectively implemented and "bolster the education of critically engaged citizens of the future, encouraging all our children and mokopuna to ground themselves, to identify themselves, and to remember their ancestors.