Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week

23^rd – 29^th July 2012

By Māori Services Librarian Kristie Parata

Every year since 1975 — and again this week — New Zealand marks Māori Language Week.

This is a time for all New Zealanders to celebrate te Reo Māori (the Māori language) and to use more Māori phrases in everyday life. This year the theme is ‘Arohatia te Reo’, which means to cherish the language. This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission).

Are you thinking of learning another language? Learning the Māori language is useful and fun and the Kāpiti Coast District Libraries Te Matahīapo section has everything you need to get started, including books and CDs.

Kia ora Hi, hello

Mōrena Good morning

Ata mārie Good day

Haere mai Welcome

Kei te pēhea koe? How are you?

Kei te pai I’m good

You can look at the pack with the Kāpiti Coast Māori Services Librarian Kristie Parata – Nau mai, haere mai, hoki mai

Kristie can help you write your mihimihi.

Paraparaumu Library – Tuesday 24^th July 9.00 am – 12 noon

Waikanae Library – Tuesday 24^th July 1.00 pm

Ōtaki Library – Wednesday 25^th July 2.00 pm

To view the Kāpiti libraries list of resources click here

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Kāpiti Coast councillors have toured of one of Aotearoa's unique buildings, the heritage - listed Rotunda at the former Otaki Health Camp, the country’s first.

Jeremy Smith reports that the 105-year-old, eight-sided rotunda predates the Health Camp.

It wasn't actually built in Otaki, but was one of two built in Rotorua in 1915 as part of a military hospital, on the site of Rotorua’s present public hospital.

Later they were taken to Otaki for the opening of the health camp in 1931.

Full story in the main column (December 19).

100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.

Kāpiti and Coast Independent

Tena Koe!

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week