I tū mai ngā whakataetae ā-motu Kapa Haka mō ngā Kura Tuarua, me te nui kē o ngā tohe tōrangapū i hakahaka, i pātere atu e wērā rangatahi.
Haruru pai te Whare Miere nā te pātere o ngā rangatahi ki Whakatū, ā, ko tētahi kaitōrangapū matua kua kakati e te wero o te hunga taiohi, ko Shane Jones.
Ko tōna, me waihō ko te ao tōrangapū ki te hunga pakeke, nā, tukuna ngā tamariki kia haka hei tamariki, kia kaua nōki ngā kaiako e pēhi ō rātou ake whakaaro ki ngā tamariki. Ā kāti, ko tāna, mēnā koinei te taumata o te Kapa Haka, he nui ake ngā hua a te AI pea mā te hunga kaiutu tāke.
Tuatahi rā, e mōhio pai ana te hunga taiohi ki te ao tōrangapū. Ko te kōrero rongonui a Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke tērā mō te “reanga Kōhanga Reo,” ka tika, ko mātou kē tēnā. The Kōhanga Reo movement is inherently political as it is a response to te Reo Māori dying out due to Pākeha politics. Consequently, the seeds sown from that movement, the “Kōhanga Reo Generation,” are born, nurtured, and grown politically and thus, are aware from the womb of the struggle for Māori Liberation. Te piko o te māhuri, tērā te tupu o te rākau.
Waihoki, he takahi nui tēnei i te mana o te taiohi. We know that rangatahi are more than capable of understanding politics - history proves this. From the young students at Freyberg High School earlier this year, to the Ngā Tamatoa activist group, even back to the young Eruera Pare Hongi, the “scribe” of He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tirene.
With young Māori genuinely being represented in Parliament by the likes of Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke and Tamatha Paul, and in this day in age where everything is so accessible online, how could rangatahi not be engaged?
Anō hoki, ko te Ao Haka tētahi o ngā tino taonga e whakaatu ana i te ihi, te wehi, te mauri, me te mana o te Ao Māori. Ko ngā kaitito, ngā kaiako o te Ao Haka tērā e whakarīrā ana, ao te pō, pō te ao, mō ngā rangatahi te take - he ringa raupa, he pukumahi, he taonga nā te aroha e kore rawa e tāea ana te tārua e te AI.
Ka pā atu ēnei taonga ki ngā take katoa mai i ngā rā ō mua ki ēnei rā tonu, nō reira ka tika koinei te wāhi papai kia tohe atu i ngā momo kaupapa e tāmi ana i te ao Māori. Kāore he wāhi tū atu mo te hunga rangatahi kia puāwai ā-tinana, ā-wairua, ā-hinengaro.
Ki a au nei, he tohu pai tēnei mo te puāwaitanga o tō tātou āpōpō. Kei te tahatū o te rangi tēnei ao hou mā te Ao Māori, nā, ko te hunga rangatahi, ko te Ao Haka tērā e kukume ana te pae tawhiti hei pae tata.
We are the seeds born from greatness, seeds our tūpuna fought to sow and nurture. I believe the path to a brighter āpōpō starts with our rangatahi being engaged in their own futures so that they may continue the fight for our future kākano - kei pīrau ngā pitomata, ngā kākano i ruia mai i Rangiātea.
Ko tāku, tēnā, tukuna ko te reo taiohi kia tohe, kia haka, kia puāwai.
Nā Taipari Taua,
Te Whānau Moana, Te Rorohuri
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