Māori renaissance
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The Māori renaissance, as a turning point in New Zealand's history, describes a loosely defined period between 1970 and the early 2000s, in which Māori took the lead in turning around the decline of t
Āpirana Ngata, 1934
Māori Land March – 13 October 1975, outside Parliament in Wellington
Māori language
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Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. The southernmost member of the Austronesian language family, it is rela
Māori renaissance
…Waitangi Tribunal with judicial powers to inquire into Crown breaches of the Treaty. Māori identified an urgent need to address the declining use of the Māori language (te reo Māori). Promoting use of Māori was seen as the cornerstone of Māori cultural growth. From the early 1980s, the kōhanga reo movement of language…
Bilingual sign at a railway station in Auckland, New Zealand
"First Lessons in the Maori Language", 1862, by W. L. Williams, third Bishop of Waiapu
He Taonga Te Reo – a celebration of Maori Language poster, Wellington Public Library (1995)
Bastion Point land rights activists with Māori-language signs