“Having Maori names was very unsexy,” Jackson said. “That’s what we’ve gone through; hearing our language mispronounced, schools wouldn’t teach it.” He added that anecdotally there seemed to be a new ...

He added that anecdotally there seemed to be a new “hunger and thirst” for the language in recent years, with education providers reporting wait-lists for beginner Maori lessons. Last year, a ...