- You sort of have that pride. You know,
that mana, that you carry with you, because you know you’re bigger than something other than yourself.
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- With the Māori culture, there’s something
that you can just own. You don’t have to be afraid to be yourself. Even though some Māori don’t do
kapa haka, some don’t do certain things, you still are Māori.
You carry pride, you carry mana, and you’re still part of something that is
really cool.
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- It
was pretty incredible. We went around Nelson and Marlborough to learn about our
culture and our history. I think that was really successful for every single
one of us. We learnt all about the area where we’re living and all about our
own whānau. We made some awesome friends and met a lot of Māori people who will
tell you everything about the history to help you along your journey
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- There’s been a lot more interest in Māori
things. Māori successes have really been acknowledged, like a lot, a lot more. And it makes you
feel really good.
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- Our
system has changed quite a bit. For assemblies, at the beginning, the Māori
Prefect goes up and does a karakia to begin the assembly. That’s happened
within the last three years, and there was more interest in Māori culture after
the Manu Kōrero was held at our school. It was like, look at all these
successful people. That opened our school up a lot more to the Māori side of
it, I guess. We can acknowledge them as well.
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