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Pānia Christine Papa ONZM (born 30 May 1970) is a former netball player who played on two occasions for the New Zealand national netball team.She is now an advocate for the preservation of te reo Māori, the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.
This asserted that te reo Māori (the Māori language) was a taonga (treasure) that the Crown was obliged to protect under the Treaty of Waitangi. The Waitangi Tribunal found in favour of the claimants and recommended a number of legislative and policy remedies. One of these was the Maori Language Act. On 1 August 1987 this Act came into force ...
Te akataka reo Rarotonga; or, Rarotongan and English grammar by the Rev Aaron Buzacott of the London Missionary Society, Rarotonga. 1854. Old grammar in English and Rarotongan "Tuatua mai!" Learn Cook Islands Maori; Te Reo Maori Act 2003; SBS Cook Islands Maori Radio Program. Archived 2017-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Updated each week
Te Māngai Pāho funds the operation of a network of bilingual English and Māori language radio stations targeting members of local iwi and the wider public through local frequencies and online streaming. It operates as Te Whakaruruhau o Ngā Reo Irirangi Māori, the Iwi Radio Network, currently chaired by former Alliance MP Willie Jackson.
Te Reo, a second channel from Māori Television, was launched on 28 March 2008. [9] In contrast with the main channel, it is ad-free and completely in the Māori language (without subtitles). Te Reo features special tribal programming with a particular focus on new programming for the fluent members of its audience.
She arrived in Hiruharama in 1883 with the interest of reviving a Catholic mission on the Whanganui River. Fluent in French, English and te reo Māori she published a Māori-English phrase book while there. [5] Funding for the mission was helped by Aubert's selling of home remedies derived from native plants, which she had learned of in Hawkes ...
Tereora was born on the island of Manihiki. [3] She was sent to Rarotonga in 1944 for schooling, where she became involved in the Girl Guides. [4] In 1954 she travelled to New Zealand to train as a teacher, then returned to the Cook Islands, where she taught at Avarua School, Manihiki, Atiu, Nikao School and Tereora College. [5]
In 1979, Te Hemara joined the Māori Affairs Department with the Māori Language Commission, a result of her work. [11] [2] She formed the first Māori Business and Professional Association in 1980 and organised Te Kopu Designers' Award for Māori designers in 1984. [3] [9] [2] Te Hemara married Syd Jackson in 1961. Together they raised two ...