A protest against the removal of trees from Ōwairaka has evolved to include debates around Māori concepts of mana whenua and pēpeha. Photo / File Well-meaning Pākehā are flooding into te reo Māori ...
I realised how proud I was to know my pēpeha before I could recite the story of Romeo and Juliet. Photo: Jey Ratema / Stuff-Nation I'm a 19-year-old who grew up in a small town called Te Teko and ...
Well-meaning Pākehā are flooding into te reo Māori classes across the country in record numbers. But there are growing concerns of non-Māori appropriating the language, and not learning the protocols ...
COLUMN: A good understanding of how nouns, verbs and particles are used to form phrases and sentences in te reo Māori doesn’t detract in any way from the importance of the principle, described in ...