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  2. Māori language - Wikipedia

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    Māori writer Hare Hongi (Henry Stowell) used macrons in his Maori-English Tutor and Vade Mecum of 1911, [98] as does Sir Āpirana Ngata (albeit inconsistently) in his Maori Grammar and Conversation (7th printing 1953). Once the Māori language was taught in universities in the 1960s, vowel-length marking was made systematic.

  3. Category:New Zealand Māori writers - Wikipedia

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  4. List of New Zealand writers - Wikipedia

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    Kāterina Mataira (1932–2011), Māori language advocate, artist and writer; Sarah Louise Mathew (c.1805–1890), diarist; Peta Mathias (living), food writer and television presenter; Tina Matthews (born 1961), author, illustrator and puppet maker; Gill Matthewson (fl. 1980s), architect, educator and writer; Muriel May (1897–1982), writer ...

  5. Kāterina Mataira - Wikipedia

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    Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira DNZM (13 November 1932 – 16 July 2011) was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer. [1] Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori language (te reo Māori) led to the growth of Kura Kaupapa Māori in New Zealand.

  6. Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty ...

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    The English and Maori versions of the treaty contain key differences, complicating its application and interpretation, some observers say. To address this, over the last 50 years, lawmakers ...

  7. James Cowan (New Zealand writer) - Wikipedia

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    Cowan also wrote on Māori ethnography for the Journal of the Polynesian Society, wrote The Maori yesterday and to-day, and co-wrote Legends of the Maori with Maui Pomare. The First Labour Government granted James Cowan a pension in 1935, one of the first two New Zealand writers to receive state support. The deputation asking for this pension ...

  8. New Zealand's central bank defends Maori language use

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    New Zealand’s central bank chief defended its use of the Maori language in official communications on Wednesday, as the country’s new centre-right government looks to roll back the use of the ...

  9. The Luminaries - Wikipedia

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    Bill Roorbach wrote in The New York Times that The Luminaries was "a lot of fun, like doing a Charlotte Brontë-themed crossword puzzle while playing chess and Dance Dance Revolution on a Bongo Board." [27] Booker judge Stuart Kelly said the book "was more like a Kiwi Twin Peaks than any kind of novel I've read before". [9]