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> A group of New Zealand honey producers working to trademark the term m?nuka honey say they are considering their options, after the United Kingdom rejected their application.
> The Manuka Honey Appellation Society began the process of trademarking the words in 2015, but in 2020, the M?nuka Charitable Trust was established to take over the effort.
> With funding help from the government, it is working to trademark the word m?nuka in international markets, so that only honey from New Zealand can be called m?nuka.
> The trust argued m?nuka honey refers to honey that comes from the nectar of the Leptospermum scoparium tree in Aotearoa New Zealand and has unique properties that are not found in honey produced in other countries.
> "We remain strongly of the view that it is misleading to consumers for honey producers outside of Aotearoa New Zealand to claim the name m?nuka honey when the plant the nectar came from did not grow in Aotearoa."
> "This definition requires that all honey exported from New Zealand under the name m?nuka honey meets test requirements, ensuring it is unadulterated and true to labelling."
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Change our official name to Aotearoa
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/nz_to_aotearoa
>Tōku reo, tōku ohooho. Tōku reo, tōku māpihi maurea. Tōku reo, tōku whakakai marihi.
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>Te Pāti Māori are calling for the House of Representatives to;
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>Change the country’s official name to Aotearoa and
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>Officially restore the Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and place names.
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>It’s well past time that Te Reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country. We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa.
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>Name changes over our whenua and the imposition of a colonial agenda in the education system in the early 1900s meant that Te Reo Māori fluency among our tupuna went from 90% in 1910 to 26% in 1950. In only 40 years, the Crown managed to successfully strip us of our language and we are still feeling the impacts of this today. It’s totally unacceptable that 20% of the Māori population and 3% of people living in Aotearoa can speak te reo Māori.
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>Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi promises tangata whenua the same rights as British citizens, that Te Reo Māori me ōna tikanga katoa be treated and valued exactly the same as the English language.
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>This petition calls on Parliament to change New Zealand to Aotearoa and begin a process, alongside whānau, hapū and iwi, local government and the New Zealand Geographic Board to identify and officially restore the original Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and places right across the country by 2026.
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>Tangata whenua are sick to death of our ancestral names being mangled, bastardised, and ignored. It’s the 21st Century, this must change.
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>It is the duty of the Crown to do all that it can to restore the status of our language. That means it needs to be accessible in the most obvious of places; on our televisions, on our radio stations, on road signs, maps and official advertising, and in our education system.
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>Please support this petition, share far and wide and let us bring our Aotearoa hou into realisation.
>Kia kaha: The i
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hello! I am looking for any recommendations on books that can teach me about the Maori culture and history please
Thank you in advance!
I've lived in New Zealand all my life but if I'm honest I feel i know very little about Māori culture or language and I need to change that but I don't know where to start
Are there any books that people would recommend?
Are there days when anyone is invited onto a Marae
Are there immersion classes I know I prefer learning a language by speaking and learning from my mistakes.
Basically I'm looking for the best way to see/experience the Māori world to understand the culture
Thank you for your time
Learn Māori culture: Meet Ella Henry from Auckland University of Technology. Dr. Henry works in Sociology and Management and Development of Māori culture at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. Video interview in Italian and English.
I found this interesting comment about the fighting style he displayed with the staff or taiaha as we would call it in New Zealand. I thought it was sharing this as many people were impressed by the scene.
How did you want to incorporate your cultural background into the role?
I come from the Maori nation of New Zealand, the Indigenous people — we’re the Down Under Polynesians — and I wanted to bring that kind of spirit and energy, which we call wairua. I’ve been trained in my cultural dance, which we call the haka. I’ve also been trained in some of our weapons, so that’s how I was able to manipulate some of the weapons in my fight scenes and work with the gaffi stick, which my character has.
I remember being one of those kids in primary complaining about having Māori culture "forced down my throat".
I have a parent who complains about the "dirty brown people" whenever the news mentions Māori issues, and who'll use race as a point of attack for politicians (Māori, Asian, Pasifika, whatever fits the bill). I'm honestly not too sure how much of the whinging I did in school was due to that. Despite what I was hearing at home, I can see other reasons that could have influenced me when I was young.
A lot of the Māori parts of my primary education were waiata. I remember hating those parts, as well as the English songs. We sat uncomfortably on the floor either in class or the school hall, while teachers had chairs, despite there being enough for the students as well, singing songs in either English or Te Reo for God knows why, and being stopped every now and again to be told that we weren't singing well enough or that we sounded flat (because almost no one cared about the songs). A lot of the time for waiata, we had no idea what what we were singing even meant. The best we would get would be an English text, but no explanation of how the words meant what we were told they did. The only Te Reo song I can legitimately remember is actually one I enjoy, although it is one where we truly knew the meaning. I also remember whenever there was a pōwhiri, hating having to wait in silence for the karanga to be done. Most Māori education for me seemed almost designed to bore.
I do remember genuinely positive experiences though. In primary school I remember spending a day or two making paper mache gourds and painting koru patterns on them (I still have mine at home). One time we had a hāngi at our school, which was a nice, relaxed, community event, with decent food. I also remember (in either primary or intermediate) having a school trip and sleepover at a marae. We had activities to do, did some traditional things (hongi, for example), and learnt names for different parts of the marae (wharenui, wharekai, etc.). One of the most relevant things to the topic of compulsory Te Reo was the time we actually learnt some in either year 9 or 10 (3rd or 4th form, for those older ones out there) social studies. It was just basic stuff (greetings, how are you), but we actually got to see how the language worked a little. Instead of just being taught vocabulary to scatter through our English sentences, we were taught actual Te Reo sentences
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