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Ko te wiki \u014d te reo M\u0101ori t\u0113nei, (This week, is M\u0101ori language week) I began my journey learning te reo M\u0101ori, almost 3 years ago. He tino uaua t\u0113nei m\u014dku. It is unquestionably the hardest thing I have ever done. To be a M\u0101ori without your reo, without your tikanga, was an all too common thing for my generation. It still is.<\/p>\n\n

\"Zane
Heeding the karanga of Ihum\u0101tao.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

I te tau tautahi (the first year) of my reo studies was met by a small roadblock \u2026 literally.<\/p>\n\n

I would stop attending class to heed the karanga(call) of Ihum\u0101tao<\/a>. Fortunately for me, so would my kaiako and nearly every other tauira in my class. Te reo M\u0101ori lessons take on a new meaning, when they are being held at the frontline of a land occupation. You start to realise you are not just learning a language, when the waiata you learnt in class are being sung by a 100 people surrounded by 300 police, in a struggle for whenua that has lasted 150 years. <\/p>\n\n

I te tau tuarua (in the second year) of my te reo studies I would get new kaiako and join a new kaitiaki occupation. On the frontlines of Canal Road<\/a>, I would be given my most valuable lesson in all of my te reo studies. A lesson I keep telling myself again and again. <\/p>\n\n

DON\u2019T EVER BE ASHAMED FOR WHAT COLONISATION HAS DONE TO YOU<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n

The whakama (shame) I feel for not having my language is intensely real.  At this point I could not stand and confidently do a mihi, even though at times I am asked too, Kei te mohio au (I know) I cannot follow the tikanga of my tupuna. He mamae tenei m\u014dku (this hurts me), I can not recite my whakapapa, my pepeha, I have never set foot on my Marae. He taumaha tenei mo t\u014dku wairua, (This weight is heavy on my soul). <\/p>\n\n

Heoi ano (however), as I gain my reo and my tikanga I can feel myself shedding that power colonisation has over me.<\/p>\n\n

I tenei tau ka korero au i te reo M\u0101ori, (this year I will speak te reo M\u0101ori). <\/p>\n\n

Engari he huarahi mutunga kore, (but the journey has no end). <\/p>\n\n

Kaore ahau i te ako i te reo M\u0101ori anake, (I am not only learning the M\u0101ori language.)  Kei te ako au i nga akoranga \u014d \u014dku t\u012bpuna (I am learning the lessons of my ancestors), lessons they fought so hard to give me.<\/p>\n\n

My Tupuna wants me to have my reo. They have chosen who they want to be my kaiako.  Every lesson has brought me closer to defending te taiao (the environment) they wanted me to learn at Ihumatao and Canal Road. Now they have lessons to give me here at Greenpeace, <\/p>\n\n

Your tupuna have lessons for you, when you start to reclaim your reo you begin a journey that will give you so much more than just a language. <\/p>\n\n

He huarahi mutunga kore. A journey with no end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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