Te Reo

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

a powerful communicator for people and their beliefs, cultural autonomy, spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, ideas, values, experiences

Question 2

Which is More Severe: Loss of Land or Loss of Language?

Answer 2

language; when land is lost it still exists albeit abused by others. while language is gone forever.

Question 3

Percentage of Te Reo Speakers in 1903

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

Percentage of Te Reo Speakers in 1975

Answer 4

5%

Question 5

Bilingualism

Answer 5

touted by settlers as the reason for intellectual ‘retardation’ of Maori pupils as it confused word-idea relationships

Question 6

Education

Answer 6

a site of dispossession but also has the power for reclamation

Question 7

Tokenism

Answer 7

te reo in government spaces can come across as tokenistic; oranga tamariki and kainga ora have Maori names but do not represent their values

Question 8

English

Answer 8

seen as ‘civilized’

Question 9

Maori Identity

Answer 9

more than blood, it is about being part of the collective, having access to whanau, marae, land and language

Question 10

Schools

Answer 10

are complicit in devaluation of Maori through a refusal to acknowledge language and culture in a positive way

Question 11

Percentage of Adult Maori Who Speak Some Te Reo

Answer 11

59.6%

Question 12

Percentage of Adult Maori Who Can Carry Out Daily Conversations in Te Reo

Answer 12

26.2%

Question 13

The Native Schools Act 1867

Answer 13

required instruction in English where practicable, and while there was no official policy banning children from speaking Māori, many, were physically punished.