Kia kaha te reo! I reckon it’s pretty sad that so many Māori people, through the effects of colonization, have lost their language. When you lose a language, you lose a part of yourself, your history, your story. It’s up to us to bring it back. It won’t be achieved unless we all do it, we all normalize it, and we all celebrate it. Te reo Māori is taonga tuku iho – a treasure to be handed down through the generations. Every New Zealander has a part to play.