Tag: Maori Language week
Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau
Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit...
Te reo Māori inspires Native American to save her own indigenous...
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau
Christina Dawa Kutsmana Thomas is on a mission to save her indigenous language from extinction. There...
About all the ‘Māori nonsense’ – a response from NZ’s Māori...
COMMENTARY: By Māori Language Commissioner Professor Rawinia Higgins
Whether he knows it or probably not, the year Joe Bennett arrived in Aotearoa from England was...
Making te reo Māori cool: Language revival lessons from the Korean...
By Rachael Ka'ai-Mahuta, of Auckland University of Technology
Earlier this year, I met an Aucklander whose teenage passion for K-pop sparked an interest in the...
One million New Zealanders celebrate te reo Māori at the same...
RNZ's Meriana Johnsen speaks to Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori chair Rawinia Higgins as part of the Māori Language Moment.
By Meriana Johnsen,...
Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how...
COMMENTARY: By Carmen Parahi
Since 2001, I’ve worked in both mainstream news and Māori media. I love journalism but it’s a hard slog being a...
Harnessing power of trendy teens ‘a key for language revitalisation’
By AUT News
Teenage trendsetters are one of the keys to sustainable language revitalisation and points to an unlikely source of inspiration – the Korean...
Compulsory Te Reo Māori debate fails to address key problems, say...
Māori language week was celebrated last week and the key issue in the media was a debate on whether Te Reo Māori should be...