“We were taught that everything they were doing was good and everything we were doing was bad. That white was right- I’m just gonna be frank. That’s not a racist talk, it’s just what it is, it’s just reality. This is just reality; this is what our people have faced.” Subscribe to Re: bit.ly/subscribe-re
When Pākehā first arrived here they were completely immersed in te ao Māori. Consequently, the vast majority learnt te reo Māori and were bilingual.
“I don’t think anybody truly could have foreseen what was going to happen up until we had Pākehā politicians who were really individually keen on killing the language” Dr. Vini Olsen-Reeder, Sociolinguist
Here's how colonisation and the establishment of the first colonial government facilitated the campaign to exterminate te reo Māori.
This is a clip from a new documentary from Hi Mama Productions called Speak no Māori, available from September 13 on TVNZ+.
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10 сен 2022