Te Tai – Treaty Settlement Stories

Kōrero: Te Mana o te Reo Māori

Te Wharehuia Milroy

CNZM QSO (1937—2019)

He kaiarataki mō te whakarauoratanga i te reo Māori, he kaipupuri hoki i ngā paerewa o te reo Māori.
Te Wharehuia Milroy rāua ko Kāwana Tianara Jerry Mateparae..
Ko Te Wharehuia Milroy (taha mauī) me te Kāwana Tianara a Jerry Mateparae, i muri i tōna whakawhiwhinga ki Te Tohu Tāpui mō āna mahi mō te reo Māori, 2012.. Government House
'I akohia e Te Wharehuia, ngā mea e mōhio ana a ia. Ma te whakatupuranga e whai ake nei e tiki atu, ka whakawhanake i te reo Maori, ka whakawhanake i ngā mātauranga hou, ka whakawhanake i ngā rapunga whakaaro.'

Ko Te Wharehuia Milroy o Ngāi Tūhoe te Ahorangi Māori o Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. He kaitiaki i runga i te Poari Matua o Te Kōhanga Reo, he mema o Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori me Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi.

I te taha o Tā Tīmoti Kāretu rāua ko Pou Tēmara, i whakatūhia e ia te Panekiretanga o te Reo Māori, he kaupapa i whakahaerehia mai i te tau 2004 ki te tau 2019. I riro i a ia Te Tohu Hapori (2003), Te Tohu Tāpui (2012), ka riro hoki i a ia te Tākutatanga Whakahōnoretanga mai i Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato i te tau 2005.

I te taha o Tā Tīmoti Kāretu, i puta tā rāua pukapuka mō te reo Māori, i roto i te reo Māori, He Kupu Tuku Iho, i te tau 2018.

E ai ki ngā kōrero a tōna hoa mahi, ka mutu, o tōna hoa tonu, 'I whakaakohia e Te Wharehuia ngā mea i mōhiotio e ia. Mā te whakatupuranga e whai ake nei e tiki atu, ka whakawhanake i te reo Māori, ka whakawhanake i ngā mātauranga hou, ka whakawhanake i ngā rapunga whakaaro.’

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