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Much loved elder and teacher, the late Wiremu Tawhai, on working between languages
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Click here to listen to a conversation with Wiremu Tawhai on Working Between Languages
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Wiremu Tawhai, loved and respected teacher of language and culture, scholar, author, actor and elder of Te Whanau o Apanui tribe, speaks about his passion for the Maori language, the importance of traditional languages and knowledge, and of his efforts in language recovery in a tribal institution of higher learning in Aotearoa New Zealand and in his own community.
Maori scholar Hemi Dale on Maori language and globalization and Gaelic scholar and poet, Maoilios Caimbeul of Skye on media and values
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See below for a transcript of this conversation:
Hemi- We have to be really vigilant in ensuring that we are not disadvantaged by that. It seems quite plain to me that there are some (???) officials living in the university who pose (?) in terms of recruitment of Maori for our program.
And again one important point that I need to make again. We are not a Maori only pathway. Our students are predominantly Maori but also those who aren’t Maori who are committed to Maori and so we are (?) part of our students come through. And you know work out, that relationship stuff in terms of not, what is ok, what is not ok in terms of taking particular roles. (???) So we’ve got a group of students in the moment who came in through a foundation program, hadn’t done any formal training in secondary school but came into our pathway, speakers of (Samoan?) and they are on their way to becoming trilingual. So that is amazing stuff that happens, and we have an open door like that. And I think if we can attract more and more and build our- the core in terms of what we do here.
Maori scholar Dr Margie Hohepa on the importance of language
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Margie: …first language, English speaker, and her husband is the bilingual, you know, speaker and she talked about their needing to think about having a, what she described as having a “CAS to go with the LAS” so you have the language acquisition system, (LAS) whatever you want to call, that but you’ve also got a cultural acquisition system (CAS) and the most ideal form, you know, most ideal situation is they are so intertwined they cannot come apart. But when you’ve been through experiences of colonization that have been about language removal they have come apart. So ya, so, and that’s our reality and so like, there is no blame, no shame, no you know, and so that saying, so I guess that is saying that um, we have to believe that you can still be culturally who you are even if you are in a situation where you develop, redeveloping language because otherwise we cease to exist after what we’ve been through, process of colonization which has been about de-languaging so yea, that’s sort of. ..
Conversations about Indigenous Languages, Culture, and Identity in the 21st Century 