New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...

Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of ...

As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in ...

Beatriz Fernandez was the first person to submit a Zip Ode in 2015, about her neighborhood. This year marks the tenth ...

A kura kaupapa expert is sounding the alarm over proposed funding cuts for literacy and reo Māori education. The government ...

Language, identity, and power are at the center of Brian Friel’s new play, which has been translated into te reo Māori by ...

Māori entities have grown from contributing $17b to GDP in 2018 to $32b in 2023. Māori contributions to the economy have far surpassed the projected goal of “$100 billion by 2030”, a new ...

Hosted at Te Paepae - the cultural heartbeat of the festival - groups of about 20 at a time are being encouraged to connect with te ao Māori through games and drills.

Soon after his suicide in 1989 at the age of 25, Hai Zi’s poems about nature, loneliness, and the fleeting nature of yearning and happiness began inspiring a generation of steadfast, fiercely ...

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