How colonisers went from learning te reo Māori to trying to exterminate it

“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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  • @Tupunaforever
    @Tupunaforever Жыл бұрын

    My Tupuna always said Maoridom was Sacred to Maori because it could easily be taken out of context in the wrong hands, he said the sacredness could be bastardized, and look what's happened.

  • @salyluz6535
    @salyluz6535 Жыл бұрын

    English subtitles are available- TYVM, from those of us trying to learn!! 💙🌺

  • @dawnezone8491
    @dawnezone84913 ай бұрын

    Kia ora for this information ♥♥

  • @nathanthompson7561
    @nathanthompson75613 ай бұрын

    The truth. Proud to be Maaori. We need have these days remembered.

  • @alaine5083
    @alaine50833 ай бұрын

    i found out in my late 40s going back to visit my mother's ppl that my grandfather was raised in a Maori community the only white family in the neighbourhood he spoke fluent Maori he only spoke to his mates he otherwise spoke pakeha reo, he always understood wat was being said around him n noone knew otherwise...

  • @zenstiller8938

    @zenstiller8938

    2 ай бұрын

    want a medal?

  • @downtoearth5108
    @downtoearth51083 ай бұрын

    Kiaora. Ae the effects of colonisation. My father like many of his time, were strategic in their efforts to keep the culture alive bordering on fear because the backlash was always present everywhere. They were truely nice and resentful to Pakeha at the same time. Both mum and dad native speakers of the reo. My mum hated school because of stigma she could not read or write but always wanted to write a book. My father made it to standard 4. His hand writing was perfect as said by my Pakeha teacher who read my letter of reason for not attending school. Nga mihi e te Atua o reo e Timoti Kaaretu, ki a koe Ruakere Hond me Rawinia Higgins.

  • @Tehui1974
    @Tehui1974 Жыл бұрын

    Nōku e whakarongo ana ki tērā whakaaro, ka toko ake tētahi atu whakaaro i roto i a au. He aha ā tātou mahi hei whakarauora i te reo Māori? Koirā te wero i mua i te aroaro o tātou.

  • @h4yl3y

    @h4yl3y

    Жыл бұрын

    Im happy to see people are making that choice for themselves to learn. Once im finished my current course i am signing up to learn te reo

  • @Tehui1974

    @Tehui1974

    Жыл бұрын

    @@h4yl3y Good luck, e hoa!

  • @sarahfunaki3884

    @sarahfunaki3884

    Жыл бұрын

    Teach it in the homes when they are young but not as a replacement to Pakeha learning this should still be the priority ,if Maori want to get any where in the modern world

  • @sammieheemi7411

    @sammieheemi7411

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sarahfunaki3884 do you say the same thing to chinese? you think they need pakeha to get anywhere in the modern world now>? yeah nah didn't think so...times are changing real swiftly.....get with it

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    @@sammieheemi7411 Maori and Chinnese are different one has been civilised from before the Europeans were and the other has only just been civilised , The chances of Maori replacing English as the language we all speak is zero . Maori has no value as a means of communication in the modern world its only value is a connection to the Maori past if your are going to prioritise your connection to the past over your functioning in the present in the real world then you are cutting your own throats

  • @maori_fairy_smiling_nz
    @maori_fairy_smiling_nz8 ай бұрын

    Nui te aro'a ki ngā kaikõrero...🙌💚🌏🌿🖤🤍❤

  • @HezekiahEdwards
    @HezekiahEdwards15 күн бұрын

    There will be a day of reckoning for Te Iwi Maori for full Tino Rangatiratanga together with Mana Motuhake. Kia kaha i te Iwi Maori, Maurioa.

  • @user-oh4yd5uh4e

    @user-oh4yd5uh4e

    12 күн бұрын

    whakatapua te hepetua o te rangi ngangapare waimere

  • @lifeisgood9474
    @lifeisgood94743 ай бұрын

    Im tongan, and my mother came to NZ for high school in a catholic school in the south island in the 70s and said it was banned to speak maori and that teachers would smack you if you spoke it, which is sad because you could speak other languages just not maori. My dad a doctor came to work in nz in the 80s, however there were a lot of maori his age who were illiterate or worst illiterate and couldn't speak their native language. Its clear they were disadvantaged for generations so its only right that they help and provide for them.

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm Tongan from Lakepa , What your mum says doesn;t add up . There are very few Maoris in the South Island and those that are there are very westernsed and almost non of them speak Maori fluently back then so for your mum to be at a school where there was a group of Maori students talking maori is not tika and she is making it up . The only place in NZ in the 80s where you could have children talking to each other in maori was in Ruatoki . This was a maori language school anyway .

  • @lifeisgood9474

    @lifeisgood9474

    2 ай бұрын

    @user-st9eo2ox7w My mum went to high school in the 70s not 80s. I didn't say there were groups speaking it, it was a known thing you would get smacked for it, it was banned. There are a lot of maori in the South Island that can speak it! Small percentage of the whole, but there's a lot who do, and Ruatoki isn't the only place smh there's lots of other places if you get around NZ. Also, tika isn't the right word I would use to describe it.

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    @@lifeisgood9474 It hasn't been a punishable thing since the 1910s and by that time all maori could understand English which was the main reason Maori elders lead by ngati kahungungu rangatira and maori mp for East coast Takimoana had petitioned government to bring the ban in so maori would learn English and think like the pakeha. After this had been achieved there was no need to discipline the maori kids and it was stopped. . When i went to school in the 70s n both Tonga then NZ Maori was celebrated at school we learnt maori songs and maori dances maori words were taught to us . The same thing they did in tonga so the kids would learn english they were not aloud to speak tongan at school

  • @lifeisgood9474

    @lifeisgood9474

    2 ай бұрын

    @user-st9eo2ox7w If you were around in the 70s then you would know the word tika didn't belong in your sentence, which means you're probably young, especially with your misinformed opinions about the subject. Nope, it wasn't celebrated in the 70s, and relating to tonga, only certain schools didn't allow for tongan speaking, this started for kids of expat's then just continued further over the years but only a handful of schools do this to date.

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    Did you used to live in Mangere Bridge and does your name start with 'M' ? and ends in 'A' , My Cousin reccons he knows you from way back you were good mates let me know if it is you and i give you his contact no.

  • @narmosis7296
    @narmosis7296 Жыл бұрын

    re news

  • @larriantesumbryel9369
    @larriantesumbryel93692 ай бұрын

    111

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    Hello Emergency services, what is the nature of your emergency ?

  • @roseadams8003
    @roseadams8003 Жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894
    @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan88942 ай бұрын

    AS A CAVEMAN I WAS COLONISED 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @FAMEROB
    @FAMEROB Жыл бұрын

    we should force people to learn it

  • @oOOOo33-q5q

    @oOOOo33-q5q

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a nice language tbh, however I wish we could learn Spanish/Portuguese cause there's so many hot guys that speak those.

  • @rickymarino1208

    @rickymarino1208

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oOOOo33-q5q hot guys and girls in all cultures . Don't be blind

  • @oOOOo33-q5q

    @oOOOo33-q5q

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rickymarino1208 Um no. Sorry. It's also a preference.

  • @h4yl3y

    @h4yl3y

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oOOOo33-q5q 😄😄😄

  • @sarahfunaki3884

    @sarahfunaki3884

    Жыл бұрын

    Whakapohane i te tou, We should force you to go back and peel kumara i te Wharepaku

  • @chrisroger4416
    @chrisroger44165 ай бұрын

    what a load of absolute bs lmaon pakeha didnt want to exterminate maori. captain james cook respecrted maori and told all his men to never attack or hurt them. this is all racist bs. the only war was in king country and waikato. before that maorin were killing each other

  • @karenhubbard1644

    @karenhubbard1644

    3 ай бұрын

    Bulldust!!!

  • @chrisroger4416

    @chrisroger4416

    3 ай бұрын

    @@karenhubbard1644 cite ur source

  • @joshuastewart239

    @joshuastewart239

    2 ай бұрын

    @@chrisroger4416 cite yours then smart guy

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    @@karenhubbard1644 he speaks the truth bullbag

  • @user-st9eo2ox7w

    @user-st9eo2ox7w

    2 ай бұрын

    @@chrisroger4416 What do you mean cite your source ? this is not no academic peer reviewed subject we are debating at university this is easyily verifyable if you get off your ass and look yourself

  • @gayjacob1657
    @gayjacob16579 ай бұрын

    Another Maori story to suit their narrative.

  • @legoat8818

    @legoat8818

    9 ай бұрын

    Truth*

  • @yesterday1396

    @yesterday1396

    6 ай бұрын

    Does the truth scare you jacob?

  • @Maori_Gal_Vlogs

    @Maori_Gal_Vlogs

    6 ай бұрын

    What would you like it to be written how you want it never good enough for you people

  • @Maori_Gal_Vlogs

    @Maori_Gal_Vlogs

    6 ай бұрын

    It happend around the whole country foolio every iwi and you think it's all made up they did this to Aborigines, Indians, Native Indian in America you think it's all a coincidence we all have the same story but your lot your rorirori only waipipo think like that

  • @gayjacob1657

    @gayjacob1657

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@yesterday1396 Yours and your bros truth are made up to think this place called New Zealand would have been better off without the intervention of the European, if the European hadn't integrated with Maori and if Maori men hadn't preferred white women, Maori would be like the Moa.

  • @annemackay-ib4gy
    @annemackay-ib4gy7 ай бұрын

    Get a grip