It was meant to be an inclusive gesture to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community. But plans to introduce bilingual road signs featuring both the English and te reo Maori languages have sparked a ...
What is the state of te reo Maori in homes and communities? Researchers are gathering in Wellington today for a hui before heading out across Aotearoa New Zealand to begin an important new study of ...
It’s good to see some familiar faces here this evening, as it was a couple of months ago when most of us were gathered at the Mâori Media Awards in Rotorua. I want to congratulate Te Korimako o ...
Rotorua District Council director of Maori issues, Mauriora Kingi (left) with Rotorua District Library staff Robyn Skipwith, Manda Waiariki, Lois Haddon, Amanda Hemara and mayor Steve Chadwick.
UKE IT UP: The ukulele will be at the centre of the Uke It Up - Te Reo Styles Maori language programme taught out of Hauariki Marae in Martinborough from October 14. PHOTO/FILE Two women experts in ...
COLUMN: At the present time, with horrific conflict turning the region known as “the Promised Land” or “the Holy Land” into something more like “Hell on Earth”, we might wish more than ever to promote ...
Pages from the 1972 Māori Language Petition. Ko tēnei te Wiki o te Reo Māori – it’s Māori Language Week. It’s been 52 years since the landmark moment on September 14 1972, when Hana Te Hemara and her ...
A Welsh man has won the waiata category in the Compose Aotearoa! national choral composition competition - for works with substantial Te Reo Maori content. Andrew Williams' waiata Miha is for an ...
To international audiences, Marlon Williams’ songs are the highway stop after Roy Orbison’s Texas and Chris Isaak’s California. But the Maori musician, one of Aotearoa’s most successful musical ...
Rachael Ka'ai-Mahuta works for Te Ipukarea Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). She receives funding from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Auckland University of Technology ...