Why Māori are reclaiming their indigenous names

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Because of colonisation many Māori chose to adopt Pākehā names and give their children English names to avoid punishment for using te reo and the mispronunciation of their ingoa. Subscribe to Re: bit.ly/subscribe-re
Now, a new generation of Māori are choosing to reclaim, adopt and celebrate their Māori names.
Re: News spoke to six tangata Māori about the story behind their Māori name, what it means to their identity and what it took to reclaim their indigenous ingoa.
“My nan, my koro, was that generation that were beaten for speaking Māori and not wanting to use their own gifted Māori names. That's just a passed down trauma,” Aroha Harris says.
“I decided to use my ingoa Māori when I had begun Takiura and was in full emission te reo Maori. That safe space gave me the kaha and the encouragement to whakamana my ingoa Māori. It just feels more me. It's a funny thing to explain, I get quite emotional.”
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@anacarpenter9254 Жыл бұрын

Ko Ana taku ingoa ae. For those in our family with non Maori names we've grown up with it's attached and love them. Maori names we've grown up with. Our parents spoke fluent Maori so we had beautiful sounding parents in our home. 💖 ❣ 💕 💘

@honepotini528 Жыл бұрын

You are missing the point. The personal internal meaning and feeling is what is paramount here. Without this all names are meaningless. Kia Ora

@cogginsnuff 9 ай бұрын

whats with the left ear sound???

@brkway Жыл бұрын

Shout out to all the Maori fams out there..the coolest kind.. Indigenous to Aotearoa and indigenous to Oceania.

@hardlydavidson1937 7 ай бұрын

Maoris are NOT NATIVE TO NEW ZEALAND there were people already living in nz way before Maoris landed on the shores of nz. People are over the lies and BS that keeps coming out nowadays. All there doing is killing nz and going to start a racist war. No body is indigenous to any country as somebody has always been there before you

@deanwhale367 Ай бұрын

Watch dougles Murray and Thomas sowell.

@patarikisoterion9899 6 ай бұрын

I like using taku ingoa Maori ko Pātariki 👍🏽

@jeanbickers4831 Жыл бұрын

Watered down

@user-oh4yd5uh4e 7 ай бұрын

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@kaeobermoy4401 Жыл бұрын

In Hawaii I was not allowed to be called Kaeo in church or school I was told I had to pick a English name .

@KG-fw5wk 9 ай бұрын

Aloha mai e Kaeo, Yes, we kānaka have also suffered. My parents decided that enough was enough, and they gave my siblings and I Hawaiian first names. Since then, we have only given Hawaiian first names onto the next generation.

@pennyfullerton3529 4 ай бұрын

that's such bullshit 😠 I'm so angry for you. did that change eventually?

@justinblake420 Жыл бұрын

fukkit....go bu traditional names i love the idea of a traditional world........different countries different peopleits our ways

@zypheralexander837 11 ай бұрын

Machine language is not a legal language in new Zealand ai says so

@michaelhowell8412 2 ай бұрын

AI says you need a nap

@FAMEROB 11 ай бұрын

how many of them are part English themselves? they only identify as Maori

@michaelhowell8412 2 ай бұрын

Where do they only identify as Māori?? If you bothered to watch it you'll see the guy who talks about his non Māori Grandmother! Why does someone being Māori get you so worked up? You sound extremely fragile 😂

@FAMEROB 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelhowell8412 um in the title its says "Maori"

@chairmybowl835 Жыл бұрын

reclaiming indigenous names are a waste, If they are to be registered under R.B.D.M Corporate Registrar.

@jubei2154 Жыл бұрын

Please explain?

@chairmybowl835 Жыл бұрын

@@jubei2154 When we are born, a birth certificate is made , The name which is either in all FULL CAPITAL LETTERS is you're Cestui Que Vie Trust or you're Legal Fiction. Which can be administered in Court as a Constructive trust. All Births registered under the "Department/Register of Births , Deaths and Marriages, captures all as everything "REGISTERED"(Regis-Legis) is claimed under or belongs to the CROWN or STATE and GOVT.

@hardlydavidson1937 10 ай бұрын

But Maoris don't even know were they came from as there not indigenous to new Zealand. There were already people living in New Zealand when Maoris landed on the shores of nz only 650 years ago. People out there need to know the truth

@user-oh4yd5uh4e 7 ай бұрын

Why did maoris move to New Zealand after they built the pyramids in Egypt?

@hardlydavidson1937 7 ай бұрын

@user-oh4yd5uh4e what planet are you living on coming up with this BS. Maoris are native Taiwanese people this is also were hospitals go to get bone marrow for cancer patients if they can't find donors. People are over the lies

@catc8031 7 ай бұрын

They literally call themselves Polynesian. It's not a secret. But NZ doesn't belong to white people's no matter what they think..

@michaelhowell8412 2 ай бұрын

Do tell us this truth you speak of @hardlydavidson1937??

@deanwhale367 Ай бұрын

Forgetting about the tribes part. Where from.