“As a learner, it’s easy to become overly cautious about the language. We can get bogged down in the seriousness of te reo Māori, in the formality and solemnity of it, the oratory, karanga, and karakia.” — Eugene Bingham.
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“Te Pahi’s name had been defamed and tarnished by Pākehā histories for more than a century, the falsehoods and lies carried by newspapers and books for generations.” — Eugene Bingham, author of ‘The Chief and the Empire’.
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“Dame Anne Salmond describes him as an anthropologist, as much as Sir Joseph Banks had been on Cook’s expeditions. Te Pahi wanted to get into the heads, to see into the souls, of these people.” — Eugene Bingham in an extract from ‘The Chief and the Empire’.
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“For many, he is the face of Tūhoe, of resistance, of the resurgence of te reo, of the return of mataora.” — Eugene Bingham on Tāme Iti’s memoir, ‘Mana’.
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“When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won’t say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80.
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The scheme is “one that many in Aotearoa are either unaware of, or have come to accept as a fact of life — an ongoing injustice that’s baked into the law books and become too hard to undo.” — Eugene Bingham on perpetual leases.
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