Te reo Maori existed in Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand) before Pakeh (European ... If we can sing our national anthem proudly in both English and Maori, we should embrace it in our ...

Video / NZ Herald Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi ... when I was employed by the National Kōhanga Reo Trust as the regional coordinator for the Hauraki-Waikato-Maniapoto regions, she ...

Māori educator Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi, a founder of the Kōhanga Reo movement, has died. She was 95. A social media pānui posted to Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust’s Facebook page ...

Shrek has been reimagined and redubbed in te reo Māori as part of a collaboration between Māoriland Productions and the American studio Dreamworks and will premiere at the Māoriland Film Festival in ...

Te Matatini, the biennial national ... reo Māori, you still belong here at Te Matatini. “This song was written as a dedication to Te Matatini and belongs to everyone here in Aotearoa New Zealan ...

She's given us an audience for what we do but also because New Zealand has one indigenous language, the first language of New Zealand was te reo Māori ... Barber also expressed his sadness at the ...

Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi, founder and prominent leader of the kōhanga reo movement of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu ...

At the same time, Te Tii Marae was undergoing refurbishments, which have now ben completed, which put Te Tii back on the table as an option. Following Wednesday’s pōwhiri for parliamentarians, NZ ...

The Government is driving better outcomes for Māori students by providing kura and schools high-quality structured literacy and numeracy resources in te reo Māori. “My aspiration is for all ...

New Zealand gathers to celebrate and debate country's founding document on national day Protesters in ... Rolling back Maori representation, undermining our reo (language), our tikanga (customs ...