Nga mihi nui ki a koe. We celebrate and welcome another year of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. The theme for this year is "Te Mahi Kai" - The Language of Food.
Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori tell us that the key message for the language this year is encouraging use in communities. It is for this reason they have deliberately chosen an activity based theme to promote and widen spoken language in communities.
We've see that GrabaSeat.co.nz is using te reo for their place names, Countdown is using te reo in their mailer and here are some more interesting things happening around the motu:
All of the above kupu (words) express the ways in which oral traditions can activate meaning and intention through chants or waiata. Whether born of purpose or political struggle such iterations imply a belief and desire to communicate greater teachings and cultural learnings. Likewise, whether motivated by individual ambition or collective aspiration, such practices have the power to elevate and emancipate deeper agendas and positions.
Meet our Newest Contributors
Phoenix, Mihiteria, Hemopereki, and Hemi will be brining their unique perspectives and insightful korero to you over the coming weeks, click above to read. Enjoy!
If you would like to contribute regularly, email us.
Tuia Te Ako 2010: Hui Update
Please note that registrations close 5 August.
The hui is just three weeks away and it is great to see such a wide range of teachers – senior lecturers and tutors; student support staff; chief executives, and student representatives signing up to attend.
We are also very encouraged to see so many people visiting the first blog posting from Ngahiwi Apanui, Ako Aotearoa's Kaihautu Maori. Ngahiwi is keen to stimulate discussion and debate in the weeks leading up to the event. There were some detailed and valuable contributions made to his initial discussion.
TangataWhenua.com is growing!! Over the last few years, our whanau have developed digital services that Maori organisations have been asking for: Websites, Online Strategies, E-Promotions, Social Media and Maori-focused Communications.
In that time, we have come to appreciate the evolving digital landscape and have learned a thing or two about connecting with Maori communities, locally, nationally and internationally.
Our aim has always been to empower Maori organisations to be able to control and manage their digital communication needs internally rather then rely on high-priced techs to update their sites.
If you have any questions, inquiries or are looking to engage with Maori communities, we encourage you to make contact with us. Thank you for your continued support of TangataWhenua.com. Mauri ora!
Kia ora! Tell us what you think!
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TradeMe ran hot with discussions about Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori (over 670 posts).
My boy is doing a Te Reo degree and he has blue eyes, pale skin and constantly changing hair colour and he is totally accepted by the others on his course. We just had his 21st and most of his friends are Maori and they totally accept him in their world. Was lovely to see just how close they all are and how well he fits with them. He doesn't seem to have any problems being a pakeha in the maori world at all.
Maori divide themselves in this country by having your maori rugby team, maori courses, and all the other crap that is only open to maori and then we are expected to embrace maori language week like we are one nation, don't blardy well think so
Racism is never acceptable, ever. And pakeha justifying their racism by saying that maori are racist too are missing the point - a racist is a racist, regardless, and pointing to another racist to justify your own rasicm is petty and pathetic.
And Te Reo is an official language of NZ - if you don't like it, move to Australia.
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Last Friday we sent Maori scholar and flaxroots activist Hemopereki H. Simon to Sky City to see what all the fuss is about and whether this visit by Prof. Anaya will bring any tangible results or change in Maori policy here in the land of the long white cloud.
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White Gloves is owned by Hira Henderson and Mere Johnston and they will be producing the show.
The channel have commissioned 26 half-hour programs with a yet to be confirmed presenter fronting the show. All books chosen will be by Maori or about Maori and Maori issues.
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Deidre Brown has just been confirmed as a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards for 2010 for her book: Maori Architecture : from Fale to Wharenui and beyond.
Maori Architecture charts, for the first time, the genesis and form of indigenous buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Hon Georgina te Heuheu, is calling for nominees to be members of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC).
PACDAC was established as a charitable trust in May 1988 out of the monet received from France in recognition of the events surrounding the destruction of the Rainbow Warrior. 
Aa Rau is a new book show that is being made for Maori Television by White Gloves television production house.
White Gloves is owned by Hira Henderson and Mere Johnston and they will be producing the show. 
After the recent launching ceremony and naming of ‘Te Hono ki Aotearoa’ waka taua on Saturday 26th June 2010 at Aurere, Bay of Islands, the waka is now being prepared to be transported by ship to the Netherlands.
