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Aug 5, 2022 · A petition that aims to change the Dutch anglicized name of New Zealand to its indigenous Maori designation of Aotearoa has collected more than 70,000 signatures, prompting a parliamentary ...
- Ailsa Chang
Aug 19, 2022 · In June, its two members of Parliament presented a petition with 70,000 signatures to the New Zealand Parliament that called on it to “change the country’s official name to Aotearoa” and ...
- Natasha Frost
Aug 4, 2021 · But it would be a giant fraud to suggest that Aotearoa as a stand-alone name was somehow the Māori-created name for all of New Zealand. It never was. And only in modern times have Māori adopted ...
- Duncan Garner
- Names Can Change
- A Short History of Nieuw Zeeland
- Māori on The First Map
- Nu Tirene Appears
- Locating Aotearoa
- Time For Change?
As these and other lands were colonised, so too were their original place names, with the colonisers seeking to assert their authority and versions of history. Power, the politics of language and the naming of places are all closely related. As the old saying goes, “the namer of names is the father of all things”. Many European explorers preferred ...
Over the years there have been various petitions and attempts to change the name of New Zealand, including in 1895 a call to officially adopt“Māoriland”, already a common unofficial name for the country. When Abel Tasman sighted these well-populated shores in 1642, he called the place Staten Landin the belief it was somehow connected to an Isla de ...
Our country was not named directly after the link between land and sea, but rather after the Dutch place that already had this name — specifically, Zeeland in the south-west of the Netherlands. Forts in modern-day Taiwan and Guyana were also called Zeelandia by early Dutch explorers. When James Cook arrived in 1769, Nieuw Zeeland was anglicised to ...
By 1835, a number of iwi (tribes) engaged in international trade and politics were using the name “Nu Tireni” to describe New Zealand in their correspondence with Britain. Nu Tirene then appeared in the 1835 Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand, and then Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. The Māori Legal Corpus, a digitised co...
The precise origin of the composite term “Aotearoa” is not known. But if we translate “Ao” as world, “tea” as bright or white, and “roa” as long, we have the common translation of “long bright world” or “long white cloud”. Sir George Grey used Aotearoa in his 1855 Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race, and in...
Whether enough New Zealanders want a formal change isn’t clear. A recent pollshowed a majority wanting to retain New Zealand, but a significant number interested in a combined Aotearoa New Zealand. Nor is there consensus on Aotearoa being the best alternative, with some debate about whether the name originally referred only to the North Islandand A...
Sep 14, 2021 · CNN —. New Zealand’s Māori Party has launched a petition to change the official name of the country to Aotearoa, its name in the te reo Māori language. The campaign also calls on the House ...
Aug 5, 2022 · How New Zealand got its name. New Zealand became a British colony in the mid-1800s, although Abel Tasman, a Dutch merchant-explorer, is credited as the first Westerner to set foot on the South ...
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Sep 16, 2021 · New Zealand’s Maori Party Tuesday launched a petition to officially change the country’s name to “Aotearoa”, which means “land of the long white cloud” in the indigenous Te Reo Maori language. While launching the campaign, the party also urged the Jacinda Ardern-led New Zealand government to restore the Maori names for all towns ...
