Hirini Moko Mead

E inoi atu te hiamana ō Te Runanga ō Ngāti Awa ki tana iwi kia tautoko ai i te whakaaro kia whakakorengia i te ngangara ‘P’, mai i ngā wāhi haumaru ō tēnei ake iwi.

I puta ai tēnei wawata i roto i te hui ā mārama i haere ake i te 29 ō Pipiri (2007).

“I tēnei rā, i ātawhakaaro ai tātou ō Te Runanga ō Ngāti Awa ki ngā hapa ka whaaki mai mō ngā whanaunga ō Ngati Awa e pā ana ki te taru kino e kii ānei kō, ‘P’.  Nā kei te inoi atu mātou (ō te Runanga) kia kaha rā te iwi ki te tautokohia i te whakaaro kia whakakorengia i te taru nei, te ‘P’ mai ngā w&...
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This issue of Pū Kāea comes to you almost entirely in the Māori Language. For those of you not conversant with te reo Māori, do not despair. Bear with the reasoning of Pū Kāea who is on a mission to promote Māori Language Week in its own unique way. And how better than to show that Pū Kāea has, not only gifted writers, but content in te reo Māori that fulfils what it set out to do when that first edition was launched in March 1992. The following has been taken from that first issue. 

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is the English equivalent to the Māori whakatauki above, but in the oral language of the Māori, the thrust of the tongue is equally as powerful as that of the taiaha. True, there is power in the written word, and the birth of this publication ...
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Waaka Vercoe

He nui ngā take e pā ana ki ta tātou whenua i tēnei marama.

Prickly Puha Cafe

E pōhiritia ana e “The Prickly Pūha”, haramai, haramai ki te whaka-hā, ki te whaka-arero i ngā momo ō kai e takatia ana e āna ringa wera, e tana tohunga tunu kai, takakai e Rex Anderson.

Te kitenga i ngā kōrero a Wiremu Huta-Martin mo te kuia nei, ka hoki whakamuri ngā whakaaro.

Koianei hoki tētahi mea nui ki a tātau kua eke atu nei ki te taumata o te koroheketanga. He mārama noa iho te hoki whakamuri o ngā mahara ki ngā pakeke, ki ngā tīpuna me ngā mahi o mua.

Tōku maumaharatanga mo tēnei kuia ka hoki whakamuri rawa ki te wā i a mātau e tamariki ana. Ko to mātau matua ko Eruera, he tino pukumahi ki te torotoro haere ki ngā whanaunga, ā, no te wā ka whai waka, ka tīmata ki te kawe i a mātau i āna haerenga ki te kitekite i aua whanaunga.

Na, ko Puhi rāua ko tana tungāne ko Horo te whakamatenga atu i wētahi o ngā haerenga ki Te Waimana. Ko te whānau hoki a Horopāpera Tatu wō mātau whanaunga o te wāhanga ki te hapū o Warahoe, e ai ki te hekenga kōrero ki a mātau, na taua whānau a Ho...
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Tuhia te hā o te reo ki te rangi “He aha te tikanga ō te whakapou i ngā miriona tara mō te orangatanga ō te reo Māori.  He ngōikore noa iho te whakapuawai i te reo Māori. Kō te tikanga ō te reo ahakoa te reo kōrero, hei whakawhiti kōrero, whakaaro hoki. Kāre he tikanga tū atu ō te reo”. Inā, i puta ai ngā kōrero nei i roto nūpepa ō Rotorua i te mārama ō Hōngōngoi i te tau kua hipa, nā runga i te hiahia ki te whakamahi i te kupu ‘kura’, i runga pahi ō Te Kura Kaupapa Māori ō te Rotoiti.

I roto i ngā āhuatanga i pāngia ki tēnei kura paku ō Rotoiti, i kaha pakanga i Te Ikiiki Whenua Aotearoa (The Land Transport Safety Authority NZ), kia whakamahi kē i te pou tohu ‘kura’, nā te mea kō te tikanga, he mana tō te reo Māori ki Aotearoa.

TE HAU-O-TE-RANGI TUTUA 

Ko te whakamutunga ēnei o ngā kōrero a Ching 

TE NEKE KI WERAROA 

I kī ake rā au he tamaiti wāwāhi tahā he tamaiti haututū i a au e tamariki ana. I a au katoa ngā mahi o te ao hurihuri nei i ērā wā. Koirā au i tae ai ki roto i a Rangitāne, ki Levin. He mea kei reira, pēnei i te whareherehere nei, he ‘Boys Training Centre. E rima tekau mā rua ngā tamariki pēnei i a au nei te pakeke, ko ētahi he pakeke ake, kei te tekau mā waru pea ngā tau. Ahau nā tekau mā rima aku tau ka tae atu au ki reira. E whakaakotia ana ngā tamariki ki ngā momo mahi o tēnei ao, tēnei mea te mahi moenga, mahi tūru, te mahi atu hoki i ngā mīhini motukā. Heoi anō, ko te nuinga o ngā tamariki i reira pēnei i au i tērā wā, ko ngā Pākeha ka whakawhiwhia ki ērā momo mahi ...
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