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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.
- 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...
Oct 6, 2021 · Waikato law professors explore the importance of names, how they can change, the history of 'Nieuw Zeeland' and the origin of 'Aotearoa'.
It's not credible to contend that Aotearoa is not used more now than it has been in the past. There has been a big uplift in Te Reo usage in general and in the use of Aotearoa in particular in the last 10 to 20 years.
Oct 6, 2021 · Locating Aotearoa. 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...
- Claire Breen
Oct 7, 2021 · Today, government departments commonly use Aotearoa, and it appears on the national currency. One of the commonest expressions of personal and national identity is the "Uruwhenua Aotearoa New ...
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Sep 29, 2022 · False. A country changing its name doesn’t automatically end its treaties and obligations, experts say. An Instagram post (screenshot here) claims that changing New Zealand’s name to the Māori word Aotearoa would void the Treaty of Waitangi, the country’s founding document.
