Māori in a sentence

Worship took place in Māori; it functioned as the language of Māori homes; Māori politicians conducted political meetings in Māori; and some literature and many newspapers appeared in Māori.

He says that the dispute is not simply between protesting Māori versus Fletchers and the police, but also between the local Māori Establishment versus disaffected Māori.

As a result, many Māori children failed to learn their ancestral language, and generations of non-Māori-speaking Māori emerged.

By the 1980s, Māori leaders began to recognise the dangers of the loss of their language, and initiated Māori-language recovery-programs such as the Kōhanga Reo movement, which from 1982 immersed infants in Māori from infancy to school age.

The use of the macron is widespread in modern Māori, although sometimes the trema mark is used instead (for example, "Mäori" instead of "Māori") if the macron is not available for technical reasons.

Both Act and NZ First targeted Māori rights, promising to reverse Labour’s progressive policies, including experiments in ‘’: collaborative decision-making between government and Māori representatives.

Stay in a traditional whare (house) with locals at the Tamaki Māori Village, Whakarewarewa, or Te Ra O Waitangi to gain firsthand insights into Māori traditions.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week began almost 60 years ago, nine years before a post office telephone operator’s use of the greeting kia ora resulted in her being demoted.

Manukau Urban Māori Authority chair Bernie O'Donnell said a "confederation" of marae, and Māori and Pasifika health organisations had joined forces to coordinate a response to the latest outbreak.

People are dying while officials decide whether to give Māori and Pacific New Zealanders free bowel cancer screening from the age of 50, the Māori Party says.

Another recent case involved a Māori student who was stood down from a sports team for misbehaviour, but non-Māori students who committed the same misdemeanour were allowed to remain on the team.

After WW2 Māori, who had previously lived mainly in isolated rural areas migrated into urban areas where there were few Māori speakers.

From the 1880s, on the insistence of Māori MPs, the government forbade the use of the Māori language in schools.

Kohanga reo Māori-immersion kindergartens throughout New Zealand use Māori exclusively.

Māori response The effect of contact on Māori varied.

Māori tend to use the word bro in the same way although this is no longer exclusively a Māori usage.

Māori urbanisation Māori always had a high birth rate; that was neutralised by a high death rate until modern public health measures became effective in the 20th century when tuberculosis deaths and infant mortality declined sharply.

Māori were entering prison at eight times the rate of non-Māori. citation A quarter of the people in England 's prisons are from an ethnic minority.

Meanwhile, Māori culture underwent a renaissance, and from the 1950s Māori began moving to the cities in large numbers.

Name The English word comes from the Maori language, where it is spelled "Māori".