Punstoppable
A list of puns related to "Pākehā"
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'm terrible with twitter and was just wondering what the discussion is about for it to be trending today.
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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