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Māori News: He aha kei tua?

Updated: Dec 12, 2023

Kua tae te wā kia whakakorea a Te Karere? Me whakapiri rānei rāua ko Te Ao Māori?


The Aukaha News team in action.
Herewini Waikato, Maioha Panapa.

He urupounamu ēnei kua tata ki te rua tekau tau e puhia ana e te hau.

Ko ētahi o aku hoa pāpāho e mea ana, āe, kua tae te wā. Arā ētahi e ū ana ki te whakaaro, he taonga puipuiaki a Te Karere nō hea e turakina, ka mutu, he pai kē ake ngā hōtaka e rua, tēnā i te hōtaka kotahi. Tēnā ko tēnā.


I hui te rāngai kawe kōrero Māori i ngā rangi tata nei ki te wānanga i te anamata o te rāngai "Māori News and Current Affairs". I tae ā-tinana atu ētahi o ngā taniwha o te rāngai.


He mea karanga te hui e te toihau o Te Māngai Pāho, e Larry Parr, i runga i tōna hiahia kia kitea tētahi ara whakamua e toitū ai te rāngai. Ahakoa me noho tapu ngā kōrero i puta i te hui, arā ētahi take, kua roa kē e wānangahia ana.


I noho wahangū au i te hui.....tōna wahangū. He wehi pea nōku i te mana o ōku ihopūmanawa.


Heoi, nō muri ka toko ake ētahi whakaaro. Kua tae pea te wā kia hoki ake tātou ki ngā rā o nehe. Arā, ki te mahutatanga o ngā niupepa Māori.


Te Karere o Nui Tireni was the first Māori news paper printed in 1842.
Te Karere o Nui Tireni.

1842 te tau i tāngia ai Te Karere o Nui Tīreni. He niupepa reo Māori i tāngia hei kauwaka tuku karere reo Māori ki ngā hapū.


E ai ki ngā rangahau, e hia kē nei ngā niupepa reo Māori, i tāngia i ngā rau tau 19, 20 anō hoki. Nō te 1862 Te Hokioi o Nui Tīreni ka tāngia e te Kiingitanga, hei pepa whakapāho i ōna take me ōna tirohanga ki te ao. He āhuatanga Māori noa i aua wā.


I whakapuakina e ngā iwi, e ngā rōpū Māori, e ngā Hāhi anō hoki ō rātou ake niupepa. Ko ngā kai o roto, he pūrongo, he kōrero tōrangapū, he waiata, he wānanga tikanga, he poroporoaki, tae atu ki ngā meneti o ētahi hui! Māori ake nei!


Nā wai, ka tāmate ngā niupepa Māori nā te nui o ngā utu, me ngā ture tāmi a te kāwanatanga.

Heoi anō, nā te whawhai a te iwi Māori, ka whānau mai a Te Karere(1982), ngā reo irirangi Māori(1989), me Whakaata Māori, ka 20 tau hei te tau e tū mai nei.


Ko Uncle Pene Paora Hatu me Te Reo Irirangi o Te Arawa tō mātou tino reo irirangi, ko Ruia Mai te hōtaka rongo kōrero, a, ko Te Karere te tino hōtaka pouaka whakaata i ahau e tamariki ana.


Te wā i te ako tonu aku mātua i te reo Māori, ko Martin Rakuraku rātou ko Tini Molyneux, ko Hinerangi Goodman mā ngā whetū o tō mātou ao.


Rātou mā, i whakarere i ō rātou kāinga i Rotorua, i Ruātoki, i Ruatāhuna hoki, ki te auahi nui o Tāmaki Makaurau, ki reira kura mahora ai i ngā karere reo Māori ki te ao.

Ko ngā tau koura pea ēnā i te ao kawe kōrero Māori.


Te Karere opening titles graphic
Te Karere

Ahakoa ngā tini taitara, ngā tohu pouaka whakaata rānei kua whakawhiwhia ki tēnā, ki tēnā, kei raro tonu tō tātou rāngai e putu ana.


E mimiti ana ngā kairīpoata reo Māori, e topetopehia ana te pūtea ki te rāngai, e noho mātāmua tonu ana te kāwanatanga i roto i ngā whakahaere a Te Māngai Pāho a Whakaata Māori anō hoki.


Ka mutu, e whānako tonu ana a Te Karere i ngā whetū o Whakaata Māori, ko Whakaata Māori rānei kei te toutou i te kāroti ki ō Te Karere kaimahi. Ko te hua tērā o te puna pāpaku.


Anei tāku. Atu i ngā hōtaka pēnei i a Te Ao With Moana me Marae. Ko te anamata o te rāngai kawe kōrero Māori, ka tau ki ngā iwi.


Mā tātou anō tātou e kuhu. Kaua e whakawhirinaki atu ki te pūtea a te kāwana.

Ahakoa te haepapa kei runga i a ia ki te waha i tā Te Taraipiunara o Waitangi i whakahau ai, arā, kia whai reo te Māori i te ao pāpāho.


Ko ngā iwi hei taituarā mō ngā reo irirangi, otirā, mō ngā ratonga kawe kōrero.

Mā ngā reo irirangi Māori ngā pūrongo e tuku ki ngā ratonga aunoa, me ngā waka ā-motu pēnei i a Te Karere, i a Whakaata Māori, i a Mata, i a Ohinga rānei. Hei taunaki i ngā mahi e mahia kētia ana e rātou.


Ko te painga nui, ka whakapuakina e ngā iwi ngā kōrero e hiahiatia ana e rātou.


Ka mutu, ka whakawhanakehia ngā reo irirangi, me ōna kairīpoata, tirohanga motuhake, reo Māori anō hoki, i te pūāhurutanga o ō rātou ake kāinga.


It's a win-win-win I reckon.

Mana motuhake in action too. Kia kaha rā tātou.


Whakamōhiotia mai ō whakaaro! Ahakoa pai, kaore rānei. Share your thoughts - good or bad! - Kereama Wright

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Tamahou McGarvey
Tamahou McGarvey
Dec 12, 2023

He rawe ēnei whakaaro e Ama. Ka piki te kounga ki te whakakotahihia ngā hōtaka. Waihoki me kaha ngā iwi ki te tautoko ngā kaupapa pēnei. Pēnei anō i te tuku pōti, pēnei anō i te whakatangata whenua i ōna uri kei ngā taone kia noho māori tonu ai rātau, wēnei tūmomo mea ko te painga atu mō te iwi whānui. Taihoa ake i te 20 tau ka riro ko te māori me ngā iwi o te moananui te taupori nui whaia te pae tawhiti!

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Kereama Wright
Kereama Wright
Dec 12, 2023
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Pono, brother! Mā konā ka whai huarahi whakawhanake I ngā tamariki pūkenga rau o te kāinga. Nui te aroha, brother.

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whatanui.f
Dec 11, 2023

Rawe ēnei kōrero. E tino tautoko ana ahau i ō whakaaro, mēnā ka tika te ako i ngā kaimahi a iwi. And....me whakakore tonu pea tētehi o ērā hōtaka nui lol

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Kereama Wright
Kereama Wright
Dec 12, 2023
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Tū mai Taranaki mounga!

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michaelpanapa
Dec 11, 2023

E mihi ana parata. Ahakoa māmā ake te whai atu I tāu I tuhia. Anō te hōhōnutanga o wō kōrero. Meaan read. First time reading these types of things. Look forward to the next one Parata.

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Kereama Wright
Kereama Wright
Dec 12, 2023
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Tēnā koe e te tuakana i ēnei kupu. E nanaiore nei au ki te tuhi i tētahi ia wiki. Heoi, mēnā he kaupapa kei tō puku e kōroiroi ana, tēnā tuhia mai baras!

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