Story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language

More links and websites

• Ko Aotearoa tēnei: a report into claims concerning New Zealand law and policy affecting Māori culture and identity

  Chapter 5 of this report on the WAI 262 claim to the Waitangi Tribunal focuses on te reo Māori.

• Ko te whare whakamana: Māori language revitalisation

  Ian Christensen’s 2001 PhD thesis on Māori language revitalisation (PDF, 7.5 MB).

• Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust

  The national body for the kōhanga reo movement.

• Te reo mauriora: te arotakenga o te rāngai reo Māori me te rautaki reo Māori

  A 2011 report by an independent panel appointed by the minister of Māori affairs, reviewing the state of the Māori language (PDF, 1.6 MB).

• Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori – Māori Language Commission

  The Māori Language Commission was established in 1987 to promote the use of te reo Māori.

• What is Māori studies?

  A 2008 lecture by Professor Michael Reilly as part of the appointment process for Chair in Māori Studies at the University of Otago.

More suggestions and sources

• Chrisp, Tipene. ‘Māori intergenerational language transmission.’ International Journal of the Sociology of Language 172 (2005): 149–181.
• Durie, Arohia. ‘Emancipatory Maori education: speaking from the heart.’ Language Culture and Curriculum 11, no. 3 (1998): 297–308.
• Harris, Aroha. Hīkoi: forty years of Māori protest. Wellington: Huia, 2004.
• Irwin, Kathie. ‘The politics of kōhanga reo.’ In New Zealand education policy today: critical perspectives, edited by Sue Middleton, John Codd, and Alison Jones, 110–120. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1990.
• Mikaere, Ani. Colonising myths – Māori realities: he rukuruku whakaaro. Wellington: Huia and Te Tākupu Te Wānanga o Raukawa, 2011.
• Simon, Judith, and others, eds. A civilising mission? Perceptions and representations of the native schools system. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001.