Bringing te reo to life in the places we live

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The language links stretching back through time, across the largest ocean in the world, were systematically severed by the Crown. We know how they did it. They banned te reo, separated our people from their land and whenua which hold our mātauranga, our history and our reo. We know how we got here, and we’ve made huge gains in clawing back what was lost. We’ll continue those battles, but now it’s time to really hone in on what’s going to make our reo thrive over the next 250 years. - Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes

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Te Tai Rāwhiti | Gisborne | Gisborne | 2020-29 | Story is by tangata whenua