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Kia ora! Hello!
I have lived in Ōtautahi for most of my life, but met my girlfriend two years ago and moved to the UK with her. I do not have any Māori heritage, but I have grown up in Aotearoa (I'm almost 30) and really want to be able to at least be able to use and understand a bit of everyday te reo, and hopefully learn the language when I return home!
I don't have anyone to share this with apart from family back home on facebook, I am just working out of "Māori made easy' by Scotty Morrison.
At this stage, I know a couple of words and throw away phrases, I can say 'kia ora!', and I can count from tahi to kotahi rau!
Just thought i'd post here, see if anyone else is learning from abroad or has any advice! Thanks :)
Kia ora all, I am slowly learning te reo (very slowly) and looking for practice partners. I am self learning off the apps Drops and Tipu and trying to remember to korero with my tamariki and tau as much as possible, but I am mostly substituting words right now. I have a few sentences. I was wondering if there is an online community that meets over zoom or such to korero so I could practice some immersion? There are no immersion classes near (enough) where I live that I have been able to find, and I would love to start practising out in the world, building my confidence... if there isn't a known one, would others be interested?
> I don't believe they have the long-term interest in the safety of the children," Raukawa-Tait told The AM Show on Monday morning.
As opposed to the safety inherent in remaining with a family that beats them to death?
How is it possible to be this hypocritical, racist and just plain wrong?
https://twitter.com/Te_Taipo/status/1423021704985464833
"Before it was called InternetNZ It was called ISOCNZ which was a collective of racist white men who couldn't hold their own servers online... Many were admins of servers that ran irc, email groups, DNS, and worked for ISPs. They gathered as ISOCNZ to stamp their control over the development of the internet in this country. Their nemesis, Maori Internet Society gave them a good cyber hiding by registering .maori.nz subdomain against massive opposition from these needle dick white boys. Individually many of their members and supporters were the hosts of early online racism, misogynist and underage exploitation material online. Most of their sites were felled by my e-patu. In those days there was no netsafe, no agency for Maori experiencing online harassment, it was the wild west, and the white boys weren't very good at the quick draw. There were a number if Maori like myself, and supporters from overseas who used these racist shitheads platforms as sport. Racists found it difficult to proliferate their hatred. When we discovered a new attack vector, we would use their systems to test it out on. They'd get all broken arse and go running to the police because they were shit at defending their racist platforms. That's how I remember ISOCNZ, they changed their name to InternetNZ, but it's the same Pokokohua. And they are not even the most racist internet organisation lol"
Hiria Te Rangi
https://twitter.com/N3rdyByN4ture/status/1422064400337235971
"My resignation from InternetNZ Firstly congratulations to all those voted in and of course congratulations to Joy who won the presidency and Jay! as vice president. As you all may know I resigned on Saturday, because I just can't do it anymore, I am not Sisyphus. The reason is simple, the membership isn't inclusive of minorities or targeted communities and the membership does not want to be. Seriously, let that sink in. I would've stayed if Robyn got in or Sarah, but none, none of us got in.
I resigned because I can not let my mana be used to tick the "we consulted māori box" to validate strategies and policies that I know will lead to harm for māori I can't let myself be used up, because we speak up and we push because so many people are relying on us
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Thanks!
by Richard Shaw
'“It is long since time we Pākehā confronted the unsettled history of the place in which the ‘team of five million’ lives,” writes Richard Shaw, professor of politics at Massey University, in this piece republished from The Conversation. “Time we were honest with ourselves. Time we ended the forgetting.”
Whenever I visit my mother in New Plymouth we drive out around the Taranaki coast to visit the old family farms, chugging along the South Road that was built to carry the armed constabulary (AC) and sundry volunteer forces that invaded Parihaka on November 5, 1881.
My great-grandfather, who joined the AC in 1877 and served in it for nine years, worked on that road. He was standing alongside 1,588 other men as the sun rose on the morning of te Pāhua (the sacking).
By the time he left the pā three years later he had participated in the assault on Parihaka, the weeks and months of despoliation that followed, and the years of occupation as the colonial government and its forces knelt on the throats of the people led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi.
Having contributed to the military campaign, several years later he returned as part of the agricultural campaign to complete the alienation of Taranaki iwi from their land.
In time, he and his wife would own two farms on the coast. One of these had previously been returned to Māori via a Crown grant said to be “absolutely inalienable”, which turned out to be anything but.
They also leased a third property under the baleful West Coast lease system which, among other things, excluded Māori landowners from the process of negotiating rent, gave them peppercorn rentals and locked them out of their land in
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