{"id":11062,"date":"2022-09-07T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2022-09-08T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:55:33","slug":"me-whakanui-2000-tau-o-te-reo-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=11062","title":{"rendered":"Me Whakanui 2000 Tau o Te Reo M\u0101ori"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ng\u0101 Tamatoa at Waitangi 1972 (John Miller photo) left Donna Awatere, Tame Iti, Taura Eruera, Hana Te Hemara, Timi Maipi, Roimata Kirikiri seated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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We celebrate the 2000 year survival of Te Reo M\u0101ori and 50 years of the Reo Petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 Tau- Te Petihana Reo 1972<\/p>\n\n\n

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Te Huinga Rangatahi – M\u0101ori University Students Association, Te Reo M\u0101ori Society and Ng\u0101 Tamatoa were key organisations who were active in promoting and the delivery of Te Reo M\u0101ori petition in 1972. They called for Te Reo M\u0101ori to be taught in primary schools.

Ng\u0101 Tamatoa celebrate Hana Te Hemara this year in Taranaki, for her beauty, her drive and persistence in the Reo M\u0101ori petition 50 years ago. Hana took the petition to marae, hui, and travelled the length and breadth of the country as well as overseas conferences to gather signatures.
\u201c If we can save Lake Manapori, why can\u2019t we save the language that gives us our unique identity\u2026<\/strong> We stopped at 30,000 signatures and on 14 September 1972, our kaumatua from Ng\u0101ti Toa and Ng\u0101ti Raukawa, Uenuku Rene , presented our petition to the National Government.\u201d<\/strong>

Hana and Ng\u0101 Tamatoa members often encountered negative comments from M\u0101ori who felt Te Reo M\u0101ori was too late to recover. Hana was also belittled by M\u0101ori speakers who said \u201cwomen should know their place\u201d or that Ng\u0101 Tamatoa were\u201d breaking tikanga\u201d in discussing kaupapa M\u0101ori in the public space. I witnessed this stunning well dressed woman with long black hair Hana, crying in my mother n law\u2019s kitchen , about M\u0101ori being sceptical of Te Reo ever being taught in schools or that Te Reo was destined for Ariki M\u0101ori only. Her optimism in the kaupapa and the value of Te Reo kept her going.

Mohammed Ali himself was so taken by Hana\u2019s eloquence in describing the struggle of Ma\u014dri people, he named one of his daughters Hana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Ko Te Reo Te Mauri o Te Mana M\u0101ori\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The celebration of Sept 14, Te Reo Petihana 1972 is important for mokopuna M\u0101ori to know that our kaum\u0101tua , kuia and young organised for Te Reo to be normalised and taught in our kura. Sir James Henare\u2019s k\u014drero \u201c Ko Te Reo Te Mauri o Te Mana M\u0101ori\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

succinctly summarises the whole purpose of saving Te Reo.

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Sir Graham and Lady Emily mortgaged their farm several times to fund legal costs to stop the State Owned Enterprise (SOE) Bill in 1986-1987. The Appeal Court ruled the principles of the Treaty  of Waitangi over-rode anything else in the SOE  Act. By this decision the Treaty was elevated to  great constitutional importance. 1992 NZ M\u0101ori Council went to the Court of Appeal and then to the Privy Council in London seeking recognition of M\u0101ori and their language as broadcasting assets were privatised. This case led directly to the establishment of Te M\u0101ngai P\u0101ho the M\u0101ori broadcasting funding agency.
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The Reo Petition coupled with the Waitangi Tribunal claim (Wai 11) led by Nga Kaiwhakap\u016bmau i te Reo in 1984 , called for Te Reo M\u0101ori to be recognised as an official language of Aotearoa. Sir Graham and Lady Emily Latimer mortgaged their farm in 1986 to enable the Reo Case to be heard at the Privy Council in London. The Privy Council recognised Te Reo as a taonga

Six Generations of Lost Reo Potential<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 120 years after the 1867 Native Schools Act, until the 1987 M\u0101ori Language Act was passed- 6 successive generations of M\u0101ori lost touch with their mother language. There are now 3 official languages of Aotearoa: Te Reo M\u0101ori, English and NZ sign language – as the \u201c native language of Deaf New Zealanders.\u201d

If we look back into our history , Te Reo M\u0101ori has been a consistent political casualty since the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi when successive governments chose to disempower the M\u0101ori text signed by their own representative Captain Hobson and the majority of M\u0101ori chiefs . Instead the English version was entrenched as the official Treaty for 174 years to legitemise Crown rule. In 2014, Te Paparahi o Te Raki case (Wai 1040), the Waitangi Tribunal found \u201cNg\u0101puhi Nui Tonu never ceded sovereignty\u201d. This unwanted outcome now leads to the national question of co-governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tame Iti – Ng\u0101 Tamatoa . When he was young he was made to write lines at kura, “I will not speak M\u0101ori.” Tame has listed Tamatoa members and some of the Reo pioneers in the recent 50 years. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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In the 70s, young M\u0101ori were familiar with the impact of racism in housing, schooling and jobs. We were surrounded by a mainstream culture that said forget about being a M\u0101ori and Te Reo M\u0101ori won\u2019t pay your bills. Luckily , we were also influenced by the audaciousness of Mohammed Ali and the<\/p>\n\n\n

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Black is Beautiful phenomenon . Some junior students at our school formed a little Otara branch of the Polynesian Panthers. Ng\u0101 Tamatoa had come onto the scene, as articulate , outspoken university students, who asserted The Treaty of Waitangi was not honoured, M\u0101ori control over M\u0101ori issues, and the necessary revival of Te Reo M\u0101ori.
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Te Petihana Reo in 1972 was significant in that it was promoted by young, urban M\u0101ori – while amongst the r\u014dpu only a few had Te Reo M\u0101ori. Nga Tamatoa , Te Reo M\u0101ori Society and Te Huinga Rangatahi were active in circulating the petition in schools and throughout Aotearoa. The petition called for M\u0101ori language to be taught in all primary schools and was signed by over 30,000 people.

Te Petihana Reo was launched before the era of emails, cellphones , facebook, twitter and instagram. Ng\u0101 Tamatoa called on many of the groups they were actively involved with to help. Polynesian Panthers and Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) took copies of the petition around their neighbourhoods. Many supporters wanted to help M\u0101ori claw back some of the injustices that M\u0101ori had faced.

Two former seniors of Hillary College, Rawiri Paratene and Morehu McDonald delivered blank petitions for students to collect signatures . They also had posters to hang up around our school advertising September 14 as M\u0101ori Language Day- the main slogans were : \u201cAkona Te Reo M\u0101ori\u201d and \u201cKorero M\u0101ori\u201d.

Tom Poata\u2019s article -\u201dthere\u2019s a new dawn arising`’ from the M\u0101ori organisation of Human Rights newsletter and Aunty S\u0101na Murray wrote a little mihi -inspired me to address the school assembly on September 14 to mark the occasion- the student who had not enrolled in Te Reo class. Margaret Thatcher, then British Minister of Education , was in the audience. Afterwards she said to me \u201c Oh we have Welsh people saying the same thing \u201d. Later that day, 3 of us: Awhina Kemp, Roberta \u2026 and myself went to the Otara Shopping Centre with placards \u201cTe R\u0101 o Te Reo M\u0101ori\u201d and we sang waiata M\u0101ori we had learnt from our Polynesian Club to mark the occasion.

When I attended university I vowed to learn Te Reo M\u0101ori and had to do a whole pre-requisite learner\u2019s course. This was before At\u0101rangi and Reo Rumaki- it was painfully slow. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Te Reo M\u0101ori is a Successful Industry<\/strong>
Te Reo M\u0101ori is now a successful industry. Applicants with great skills and Reo have a greater chance of gaining employment in some businesses than those without. Kura Kaupapa would prefer to employ registered kaiako or raukura (graduates) who have been raised within Te Aho Matua schooling. Books in many dialects have to be written. Broadcasting and Government departments have created roles for directors, producers, announcers, policy analysts , researchers and librarians.

The momentum of grassroots wh\u0101nau organisations has organically grown 434 Kohanga Reo, 66 Kura Kaupapa, 39 Kura a Iwi, 3 W\u0101nanga M\u0101ori, 21 Iwi M\u0101ori Radio and 1 Whakaata M\u0101ori. M\u0101ori are 17% of the population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ka Whawhai Tonu M\u0101tou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


The struggle is not over, as each organisation alleges the Crown has underfunded Kaupapa M\u0101ori education and still tends to try and assimilate successful Kaupapa M\u0101ori practice within an underperforming mainstream framework . We still have Kohanga Reo in the same 40 year old tin sheds , unequal pay parity and antiquated email addresses. Children in kura kaupapa M\u0101ori waiting lists are enrolling in mainstream education because Ministry of Education are resistant to respond to growing demands.
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Planning For The Next 30 years<\/strong>
In Te Hiku o Te Ika, 15% of the student population is in Kaupapa Maori schooling- but there is no resourcing to support inter-collegial networking between Kohanga Reo and Kura Reo M\u0101ori. MOE comes up with good plans that don’t suit us and ignore solutions we propose. We want to plan for the next 30 years and to cater for the children and wh\u0101nau we currently turn away as we do not have staffing, classrooms and capacity to enrol. Wh\u0101nau are returning to Tai Tokerau from the cities as urban living costs soar. I predict another 8 kura kaupapa are needed in Tai Tokerau within the next 5 years $30-50 million budget prediction. Given the Green School was allocated $11.7 million- kkm are still a reasonable proposition.

Te Matakahuki , an alliance of Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa, Kura a Iwi and W\u0101nanga M\u0101ori have signalled the desire to grow more Kaupapa M\u0101ori education sites without the brakes being applied and with parity.

Te Matakahuki have consistently advised the Deputy Minister of Education they do not support the Pae Roa reforms. Instead they call for an independent Kaupapa M\u0101ori statutory authority and legislation to protect the integrity of Kaupapa Reo M\u0101ori education.

The kaha and survival of Te Reo still requires the community drive of the people. Kapa haka, Manu K\u014drero, Waiata Reo , Reo M\u0101ori news broadcasts and Reo M\u0101ori business platforms are popular forum for the uplifting and continuity of Te Reo.

There is still a determination to build \u012awi and hapu capacity for Reo and Tikanga M\u0101ori .

Ng\u0101 Tamatoa wish to celebrate all its members who have made personal commitments to strengthen Te Reo M\u0101ori in their own wh\u0101nau and to build capacity in Kaupapa M\u0101ori ventures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We celebrate the 2000 year survival of Te Reo M\u0101ori and 50 years of the Reo Petition. 50 Tau- Te Petihana Reo 1972 Te Huinga Rangatahi – M\u0101ori University Students Association, Te Reo M\u0101ori Society and Ng\u0101 Tamatoa were key organisations who were active in promoting and the delivery of Te Reo M\u0101ori petition in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11096,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}