Maori Language Week - Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori
History of the Maori language - Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori
Decline and revival
100 Maori words every New Zealander should know
100 words in te reo Māori
These words are grouped according to the following functions and associations:
A Maori word a day
365 useful words and phrases in te reo Māori
These words and phrases have been compiled and recorded by Martin Wikaira. See 100 Māori words every New Zealander should know for more words and a pronunciation guide.
Teaching pre-schoolers Maori Language
Maori women have been the backbone of kohanga reo (language 'nurseries' where pre-schoolers were immersed in the language) since the first opened in 1982.
By July 2000 there were a total of 11,519 children attending 611 kohanga reo. Approximately 40,000 children have passed through kohanga reo since 1982.
Archives New Zealand/Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga
Maori Language Week protest march
During the 1980 Maori Language Week a march was held to demand that the Maori language have equal status with English. Another seven years passed before it became an official language of New Zealand.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: EP/1980/2470/20A-F
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Maori radio station, 1987
Piripi Walker (right) and Tama Te Huki in the studio of the Wellington Maori language radio station, Te Upoko o Te Ika, on its first day of broadcast in 1987.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: EP/1987/2071/8-F
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Waitangi Tribunal claim - Maori Language Week
Protecting a taonga: the Māori language claim
'The language is the core of our Māori culture and mana. Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Māori. (The language is the life force of the mana Māori.) If the language dies, as some predict, what do we have left to us? Then, I ask our own people who are we?' These were the words of distinguished Māori Battalion veteran and Ngāpuhi leader Sir James Hēnare when he spoke, in 1985, before the Waitangi Tribunal as it heard the Māori language claim.
Americans and Māori - US Forces in New Zealand
‘Haere mai, Amerikana’
In 1942, New Zealand may not have had ‘the best race relations in the world’, but there was a wide acceptance of relaxed social intercourse between Māori and Pākehā in public. Some of the Americans had different traditions. A number came from Texas and other southern states where ‘Jim Crow’ laws still kept ‘niggers’ apart and in their place.
Visit to a kohanga reo
Waitangi Tribunal members Chief Judge Edward Durie (left) and Paul Temm QC visit a kohanga reo at Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt, in 1985. Kohanga reo or language 'nurseries' immersed infants in a Maori language environment; the first of these opened in 1982.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: EP/1985/2942/15-F
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