One person from a Taranaki settlement said ''I was punished for using the only Maori words I could speak: 'Porangi Pakeha' ! " Another, from a much more distant place, said "Names were taken down on the playground if we were caught speaking Maori. The punishment was to go and get boxes of soil from the bush with our hands."
Taranaki | South Taranaki | 1970-79 | 5% of Māori children can speak te reo. (1970-75) | Story is by tangata whenua
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