Ko te nuinga o tōku reanga (e 30 tau tōku pakeke) kāore e whai whakaaro ki tā tātou waiata i te ngaringari ā-motu i roto i te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā. Heoi i mua i tā Hinewehi mahi atu i tāna mahi i te Ipu Whurupōro o te Ao i te tau 1999 ki Twickenham, kore rawa i rangona te reo.
Koia tonu tana whakatau ki te waiata i te ngaringari reo Māori, me te kiriweti o te hunga pāpaho auraki o Aotearoa ehara tēnei i te tikanga “noa”, me te rorirori o te marea i te rongo atu i a E Ihowa Atua . . . Ka pahū te ao irirangi. Ka tonoa atu ngā reta tukituki ki te ētita. He anuanu, he āwha kaha — te tukutuku mai o ngā tao kī, a te pene kōhuru ki a Hinewehi. Ahakoa anō kua 20 tau mai i tērā wā, he uaua tonu mōna ki te whakapuaki i āna maharatanga me te “ngaukino” i taua wā.
Nō hea te whakaaro ka pāhotia koe mō te whakawhiu he whakahīhī nōu ki te kōrero, ki te waiata i tōu reo ki te atamira o te ao katoa.
He tino wā tēnā mō te motu. E ai anō ki te Tumuwhakarae o Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, a Rawinia Higgins, ko te rangi tērā i rongohia te reo rongomaiwhiti o tēnei motu: “Nā te korokoro o te wahine toa nei i panoni i a Aotearoa.”
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