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Te Reo Māori This article provides a perspective of the history, current use, and likely future of te reo Māori in the light of the Māori Language Act 1987. Source: T. Kāretu, J. Waite, Te Reo Māori', Department of Statistics, New Zealand Official Yearbook 1988-1989, pp 217-227. (93rd Ed.), Wellington, 1988 The Māori Language Act 1987 declared Māori to be an 'official' language and created a ri...

Guidelines for Cook Islands Màori Language Programmes Planning Guidelines to Accompany Developing Programmes for Teaching Pacific Islands Languages 1 The photographs on pages 23, 24, 32, 34, 40, 50, 59 and 68 were taken by Glenn Jowitt. The line drawings on pages 62–65 are by Liz Tui. Published 2000 for the Ministry of Education by Learning Media Limited, Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand. ...

Tangiia and Tutapu Te Ariki-Tara-are, high priest of Rarotonga; trans. by S. Percy Smith When Tangiia was born his grandfather, Ka‘u-kura, gave him the name of Rangi. When Tangiia’s uncle Pou-vananga-roa learned that his sister Ka‘u-ngaki had given birth to a son, he adopted the boy and renamed him Tangiia-nui. The uncle also adopted Tutapu, the son of his other sister Maonga. Pou-vananga-roa a...

Tafa‘i Teuira Henry Not long after Tahiti was moved away from Ra‘iatea,1 there lived in the district of Mahina (Clear-Gray) in Tahiti-To‘erau (North-Tahiti) a fine elegantly formed woman of high rank, whose name was Nona (Of-hushed). She had long carnivorous teeth, and as she had acquired the terrible propensity for cannibalism, which obtained for her the sobriquet of Vahine‘aita‘ata (Man-eati...

Ruatapu- Cook Islands Timi Koro, Trans. by Drury Low Twenty-seven or twenty-eight generations ago on an island called Taputapuatea [on Ra‘iatea or Havai‘i], which is far to the north and east of Ututaki Enua [‘Aitutaki], lived a young chief of royal blood named Ruatapu. He was the only son of Uanuku Rakeiora, an ariki or high chief of that island. From boyhood Ruatapu had been fond of canoes, a...

Ru –Cook Islands Timi Koro, Trans. by Drury Low About twenty-eight generations ago our people lived on Tubuaki,1 an island far to the east and north of Aitutaki [Southern Cook Islands]. The island was fertile and fishing was good, but during dry seasons food was scarce, and long-continued peace resulted in the island becoming over-crowded. The name of the ariki has been forgotten; he was a stro...

Ru and Hina Teuira Henry [Told by Pape-au, a Tahitian scholar, in 1824.] Ru and Hina Explore the Earth Ru (Transplanter), who raised the sky from the earth, prepared his canoe, Te-apori (The-hull), to circumnavigate the earth with his sister Hina-fa‘auru-va‘a (Hina-the-canoe-pilot). As Ru prepared his canoe, he looked around and observed the appearance of the world, and he marked the boundaries...

Rata Teuira Henry A prince named Vahi-e-roa (Far-off-place) once lived in Pare, Tahiti To‘erau (North Tahiti). His wife was Matamata-taua (Endless-strife), who also inherited the name of the land, Tahiti To‘erau as her rightful title because she was high chiefess of the realm. To these two royal persons was born a son, whose arrival gave them great joy. They named him Rata (“Tame”). On the nigh...

Pepe-iu Collected by E.S. Craighill Handy Toni [a tau‘a, or inspirational priest] lived at Taiohae; Te-pua-i-mohui, a fisherman, was his son; Pepe-iu was his daughter. When the son went fishing, the daughter remained up in the valley with her father. Three times when Tepua-i-mohui returned from f ishing, he gave none of his catch to his father and sister. The next time the young man went fishi...

Mo‘ikeha Mo‘ikeha was an ali‘i nui (high chief) from Moa‘ulanuiakea, Tahiti, where he lived with his wife Kapo. They had a child named La‘amaikahiki.1 When ‘Olopana and Lu‘ukia arrived in Tahiti,2 Mo‘ikeha became infatuated with Lu‘ukia and soon after took her as his lover. ‘Olopana harbored no ill feeling toward Mo‘ikeha; in fact, he approved of his friend’s affair with his wife. ‘Olopana was...