Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 10, 2016 17:27:19 GMT 12
BEING MAORI MORE THAN WORDS
Maori Party co-founder Dame Tariana Turia is rejecting suggestions fluency in te reo Maori should be seen as a mark of being Maori.
But Dame Tariana Turia told Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson none of her contemporaries in her hapu spoke the language because their parents and grandparents had it beaten out of them at school…
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTM1MjI=
Maori Party co-founder Dame Tariana Turia is rejecting suggestions fluency in te reo Maori should be seen as a mark of being Maori.
But Dame Tariana Turia told Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson none of her contemporaries in her hapu spoke the language because their parents and grandparents had it beaten out of them at school…
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTM1MjI=