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Nov 15, 2021 · The Māori Party has launched a petition to revert to the country's original name. Māori authors Stacey and Scotty Morrison say travelers don't need to wait to start using it.
- On Location
There have been countless coming-of-age shows built around...
- On Location
- 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 28, 2021 · A new poll has asked Kiwis if we think we should change the name of our country to Aotearoa - and the results are now in.
Oct 7, 2021 · The popularity of Aotearoa can be gauged from William Pember Reeves' 1898 history of New Zealand: The Long White Cloud Ao Tea Roa. Today, government departments commonly use Aotearoa, and...
Aug 5, 2022 · As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.
- Ailsa Chang
Aug 4, 2022 · New Zealand may soon consider a name change. There's a petition circulating to change the island nation's name to its Indigenous Maori designation of Aotearoa. So far, the petition has collected...
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"Our petition calls on Parliament to change New Zealand to Aotearoa and begin a process, alongside whānau, hapū and iwi, to identify and officially restore the original te reo Māori names for all...
