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The Māori Language in Pukekohe and vicinities
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
A quarter of respondents said they had been beaten at school for speaking Maori, and so did not teach the language to their own children. -
The Māori Language in Te Atatu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
Some people said that they only spoke Maori in Te Atatu to the very elderly people. -
The Māori Language in Papakura
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
Many were sorry they knew so little Maori, because, as they grew older, they realized the importance of the language to their culture. -
The Māori Language in Tuakau
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
Many of the respondents had been beaten for speaking Maori. -
The Māori Language in Waiuku
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
Most people interviewed were worried that Maori was dying out, not only in their region but also throughout the country. -
The Māori Language in Otara
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
One or two said that their children were learning Spanish from TV, through watching Sesame Street, but there were no programmes which gave them a chance to learn Maori. -
The Māori Language in Manutuke and neighbouring communities
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:06 PM
One kuia in Muriwai who had had all her hair cut off by a teacher for speaking Maori at school commented: "I'm worried about what might happen to our Maori people." -
The Māori Language in Waikohu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
Over 60 percent of the household heads interviewed had suffered some sort of punishment or general negative attitude for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Potaka and Waikura
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
One man felt the retention of the Maori language was essential for the retention of one's identity. -
The Māori Language in Opotiki County
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
As one mother said, "I didn't want them to go through the same punishment I went through for speaking Māori." -
The Māori Language in Tolaga Bay and districts
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
Because of the punishment they received for speaking Maori, they had gradually lost their knowledge of the language. -
The Māori Language in Tokomaru Bay and districts
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
I didn't want them to have the same troubles I did for speaking Maori so I only spoke English to them" were typical comments. -
The Māori Language in Central Waiapu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
People from four different families in Ruatoria thought that today's parents were far too easy-going by allowing their children to speak English at home. -
The Māori Language in Gisborne city
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
Nearly half the people interviewed said that they had been strapped for speaking Maori as children at school." -
The Māori Language in Opotiki
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
They only spoke Maori in their country home areas, and used English with their neighbours friends or workmates in Opotiki. -
The Māori Language in Te Kaha
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:05 PM
More and more people, especially the younger ones, used English rather than Maori when they talked about everyday things.
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The Māori Language in Hicks Bay
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
They believed it should remain the language for everyday use and should not be kept just for elders to use for ceremonies on the marae. -
The Māori Language in Te Araroa and vicinity
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
English is more and more playing a greater part in people's lives, because that is the language of newspapers, radio and television, as well as the language of the larger towns and cities that the people visit. -
The Māori Language in Napier and Bay View
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
English seems to have displaced Maori as the language used between parents and children. -
The Māori Language in inland Wairoa
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
Nearly three fifths of the parents and grandparents we interviewed had suffered some sort of punishment in school for speaking Maori. -
The Māori Language in Pukehou
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
One woman who knew no Maori although her parents had both been fluent speakers, said that she wanted her children to learn Maori so that they would not be the same as her. -
The Māori Language in in Havelock North and Waimarama
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
When everyone was brought up on the marae they could speak Maori but now that people are brought up in the cities they can't. -
The Māori Language in Hastings city
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
The total loss of Maori was predicted by many of the people we interviewed. -
The Māori Language in Kohupatiki and Waipatu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
English had taken over from Maori as the everyday language in the household and community. -
The Māori Language in Porangahau
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
Most parents could not teach it to their children, even if they wanted to. -
The Māori Language in Rangitukia
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:04 PM
The younger people usually replied in English, and there were fears that actual speakers of Maori would disappear with the passing on of the elders.
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The Māori Language in Raupunga
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
Tribal wananga were seen by some people as one way to stir up interest in the language. -
The Māori Language in Nuhaka
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
Two-thirds of the people in the survey had been beaten or picked on by teachers for speaking Maori as children. -
The Māori Language in Whakakī
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
There is no doubt that the Maori language in Whakaki will be completely lost if something is not done soon. -
The Māori Language in Mohaka
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
Many people were worried that fewer and fewer people spoke Maori in Mohaka. -
The Māori Language in Haumoana
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
Most said they would rather speak Maori if only they knew how to. -
The Māori Language in Opoutama and Mahia
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
More than two-thirds of the people said they had been punished for speaking Maori as children at school. -
The Māori Language in Bridge Pā and Ngatarawa
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
One person we spoke to said that things were already so bad that Maori should be made a compulsory subject in all schools. -
The Māori Language in Te Hauke
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
The people we spoke with were saddened by the decline of the Maori language. -
The Māori Language in Pakipaki
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:03 PM
One person said newspapers, radio, and especially television should do more to help teachers and parents trying to hold on to the language in a Pakeha world. -
The Māori Language in Omahu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
Many of the kaumatua age group had been punished for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Wairoa
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
Fluent speakers recalled being 'thrashed or strapped' as children for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Rangitikei
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
In his school days he had been punished for speaking Maori, and so he avoided te reo as much as possible as a child. -
The Māori Language in Feilding
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
Over three quarters of those spoken to said that they had suffered some form of punishment for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Shannon
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
They had both been laughed at by locals for speaking Maori -
The Māori Language in Whanganui
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
Very few people were left who could understand and speak Maori. -
The Māori Language in Palmerston North and Te Arakura
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
One person lost the ability to speak Maori when his grandparents and parents died and he was adopted out into other families where the main language spoken was always English. -
The Māori Language in Waihiki, Moteo, Runanga and Te Haroto
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
He had been punished for speaking Maori at school, and the loss of confidence he felt then had lasted, so that he does not speak on the marae even though he ought to be one of the people to do so. -
The Māori Language in Patea
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:02 PM
Some of the people we spoke with felt that only the school could teach their children Maori; they were not trained to do so themselves." -
The Māori Language in Foxton
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
Maori was heard mostly on the marae and hardly ever in the homes or community. -
The Māori Language in Ratana Pā
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
Over a third said they had been beaten as children for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Masterton
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
So few people could speak Maori in the area it could die out altogether. -
The Māori Language in Papawai and Greytown
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
It could survive only if most people in the community, Maori and Pakeha, wanted it to survive. -
The Māori Language in Wainuiomata
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
Some people who spoke Maori fluently before forgot how to speak it, while the young people never had a chance to learnt to speak it. -
The Māori Language in New Plymouth and Okato
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
People of her parents' generation were punished when they spoke Maori, and this was one of the reasons why the language was no longer spoken -
The Māori Language in Porirua and district
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
Elders of the original inhabitants of the area - the Ngati Toa - were particularly concerned at the loss of the language among younger generations -
The Māori Language in Otaki, Manakau, Kuku and Poroutawhao
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
There seemed to be a strong general support for moves to promote the use of the Maori language in the schools and in the community -
The Māori Language in Pongaroa
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:01 PM
People felt that Maori had hardly any chance of surviving as a language for everyday purposes in the home and community.
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The Māori Language in Waverley
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
"I was punished for using the only Maori words I could speak: 'Porangi Pakeha' !" -
The Māori Language in Mangakino, Whakamaru and Atiamuri
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
The Maori people in these communities were suffering the effects of their isolation from any large Māori-speaking centre. -
The Māori Language in National Park and neighbouring areas
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
There was much support for the teaching of Maori in schools and some people had already started teaching their mokopuna themselves" -
The Māori Language in Taumarunui and districts
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Many of those adults who could not speak Maori fluently regretted this. -
The Māori Language in Turangi
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Two thirds of our informants were forbidden and/or punished for speaking Maori. -
The Māori Language in Taupo and Waitahanui
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Many of these people blamed themselves for the loss of Maori. -
The Māori Language in Ngapuke
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Now that English was the main language spoken in most households they were worried Maori would soon die. -
The Māori Language in Putaruru and districts
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
While many parents want their children to learn Maori they are not in a position to help them. -
The Māori Language in Opunake
Posted by · September 12, 2022 1:00 PM
The kaumatua were worried that fewer and fewer people knew or spoke Maori. -
The Māori Language in Meremere and districts
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
One person said that after being punished at school for speaking Maori he gradually lost his knowledge of it. -
The Māori Language in in Tokoroa
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Punished at school for speaking Maori had caused one man to lose his ability to speak Maori and now, he said, there is no incentive to even try to speak it because of his isolation from other Maori speakers. -
The Māori Language in Whatawhata
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
One kuia told us she couldn't speak English before she went to school and got many hidings from this. -
The Māori Language in Coromandel, Kennedy Bay and Manaia
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Over two fifths of our informants had been punished at school for speaking Maori. -
The Māori Language in Matamata, Waharoa and Te Poi
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
One man said he felt he lost his Maori when he started school and was forbidden to use it. -
The Māori Language in Hamilton City
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Many people said they forgot how to speak Maori once they started school because no one else there spoke Maori or because they were forbidden by the teachers to do so. -
The Māori Language in Te Kauwhata
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Young parents were especially worried about not being able to speak Maori, because it meant they could not pass the language on to their children. -
The Māori Language in Huntly
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Half of the people interviewed said they had been beaten as children for speaking Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Te Awamutu and District
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
One woman told us she had been laughed at by Pakeha children when she spoke Maori at school. -
The Māori Language in Cambridge
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Speaking Maori in the town was looked down upon. -
The Māori Language in Horotiu
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
None of the children under 15 spoke Maori -
The Māori Language in Ngaruawahia 1976
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Nearly all the programmes on television and radio were in English, and this made the teaching of Maori in the homes difficult and uninteresting. -
The Māori Language in Kawhia and Aotea 1975
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:59 PM
Several people said that a full-time Maori language teacher should be appointed at the local secondary school. -
The Māori Language at Waipa Mill and in Horohoro
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:58 PM
In both Waipa Mill and Horohoro nearly all of the people we came across who could speak and understand Maori well were over the age of 25. -
The Māori Language in Owhata
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:58 PM
She lost her fluency when it was “strapped out of her.” -
The Māori Language in Reporoa (1978)
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:58 PM
Nearly all of the people included in our survey in Reporoa who could speak and understand the language well were over the age of 5. -
The Māori Language in Matahi and the Waimana Valley
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:58 PM
Maori was the first language understood by all but two of the people we interviewed. -
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori Parade 2018
Posted by · September 12, 2022 12:58 PM
Children marching in te wiki o te reo parade in Wellington this week. -
“Whakarongo ki ngā kupu o ngā kaumatua, kākahutia i runga i a koe, mau hei hoatu ki te ao hou”
Posted by · September 12, 2022 10:27 AM
Ko tētehi o ōku tino haerenga ko te haerenga ki te ako i te reo Māori. -
He Reo Whānau
Posted by · September 12, 2022 10:20 AM
Ko te reo Māori he reo whānau ki te reo Hawai'i, nō reira, he pai te karaihe reo Māori ki ahau. -
Te nui hoki o ngā tuhinga!
Posted by · September 12, 2022 10:00 AM
Perhaps also a few presumed that Māori is not a language that can be used to transmit concepts of Western law. -
"In Another Lifetime"
Posted by · September 12, 2022 9:52 AM
Maybe in another lifetime I’ll speak my native tongue. -
Ko tōku reo, ko tōku taonga.
Posted by · September 12, 2022 9:42 AM
My language is my treasure. It wasn't my treasure at the age of 9. -
"Ko tōku reo, ko tōku taonga, ko tōku taonga ko tōku reo"
Posted by · September 12, 2022 9:11 AM
E kī ana te whakataukī “Ko tōku reo, ko tōku taonga, ko tōku taonga ko tōku reo” – “My language is my treasure, my treasure is my language”. -
Ngā Tamatoa - Haere Mai
Posted by · September 12, 2022 8:39 AM
Ngā Tamatoa at Te Rapunga Marae, Northland, in 1971. -
Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon
Posted by · September 12, 2022 8:38 AM
During the lead up to World War Two, Haddon presented a regular programme (in English) Ōriwa’s Māori Session which featured Māori history, legends, and poetry. -
My mum, my mountain: Hana Te Hemara
Posted by · September 12, 2022 8:27 AM
The petition itself read... -
Mozzies: We don’t cease to be Māori once we’ve left
Posted by · September 12, 2022 8:16 AM
As there were no distinctly Māori environments on the Gold Coast, we decided to take the risk — to cross the ditch and lay the tūāpapa for our tamariki. -
Quentin's Journey
Posted by · September 11, 2022 11:12 PM
The boys come with me and they love it. -
NZ Story - Meng Foon
Posted by · September 11, 2022 11:04 PM
In 2001 Meng Foon was the only serving New Zealand mayor to speak fluent Māori and Cantonese — and that was still the case when this documentary was made in 2013. -
Te Aritaua Pitama, Whakatauki me Waiata
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:59 PM
I whānau mai a Te Aritaua Pitama i Tuahiwi i te rohe ki Kaiapohia, hei mātāmua ki ngā tamariki 12. -
Papawai Marae
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:53 PM
Kei te whiti atu a Waka Huia ki te whai i ngā tikanga mō tēnei kōrero, me Te Kotahitanga, te whare pāremata Māori i tū ai ki runga i tēnei marae o Papawai.
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Hana O’Regan at Te Kura o Te Tira Mōrehu Reo o Moeraki
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
Hana O’Regan leading the advanced class. -
Te Kura o Te Tira Mōrehu Reo o Moeraki
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
The wānanga were even more successful than they had hoped for. -
Moeraki kaumātua Joseph Tipa reflects on his childhood
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
You know what our supermarket was? The sea. -
Ka hao te Rakatahi: My never-ending journey of learning te reo
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
As a five-year-old told my parents I wanted to move into an English-speaking class.
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He Kūmara, He Kai, He Kāinga
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
Whakarongo ki ngā kōrero a Tireiniamu Kapa mō te takenga mai o te ingoa o te kāinga o Te Kao. -
Kia tika te rere o ngā kupu, kia tika te reo.
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:45 PM
Anō ko tāku tēnei ahakoa te pakaru mai te āhuatanga o ngā kupu i roto i a koe, e pai ana.