However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

One of its main services is finding foster homes for Pasefika and Maori children who become wards of the state under their So'otaga Aiga Pasefika (SAP) program. Ms Caroline Epa, one of the (SAP ...

Children at Te Wainui-a-rua, a Maori school on the Whanganui River, celebrate Puanga by making traditional kites. Every morning they assemble and say, "We are the river, and the river is us." ...

Writing on Māori subjects for broad audiences as I do, there’s a risk of opening a window on issues readers might have little knowledge of – though they’ll often have a view, well-informed or not. In ...

KASHIWA, Chiba Prefecture--Some 9,000 kilometers from where the traditional Maori dance originated, children from a rugby club here gave a powerful rendition of the haka, famed for its iconic ...

a foundational agreement signed in 1840 between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs. “I’m here for my grandchildren, my children and for their children,” Hoana Hadfield from Wellington ...

I also studied Te Reo Maori for 1 year, so speak and understand ... I paused to raise and home-educate my 4 children (all adults now, and I'm now enjoying being a Grandma. I then retrained to ...