Category: History of NZSL
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A Shock Tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand
قف بقوة وتوحد الجميع في المجتمعات qaf biquat watawahad aljamie fi almujtamaeat “Stand strong and unite everyone in the communities.” On Friday 15th March 2019, a shocking tragedy came through breaking news via social media such as Facebook, Twitters, Internet, TVNZ (Television New Zeland Broadcasting). I received several texts from hearing…
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Decide to start fund raising
It would be great if you can support and help me to share our Deaf Culture, Sign Language and History.. Thank you and here is a link Fundraising
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Black Deaf -mute lawyer in the United State
(From The Silent Worker, March 1927 by Joseph Lacy Sewell, page 169) Looking through the past in the United States, whether is there any Negro people/children with disabilities in the past or not? The answer was YES! I came across one peculiar interest to me and it was about the lawyer who was deaf and…
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Deaf Woman Suffrage – 125 Years
http://<p><a href=”https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teresa-cartagena1.jpg#/media/File:Teresa-cartagena1.jpg”><img src=”https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Teresa-cartagena1.jpg” alt=”Teresa-cartagena1.jpg”> By Sandra Ferrer Valero –http://www.mujeresenlahistoria.com/2015/06/la-mistica-feminista-teresa-de.html, Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0″>CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href=”https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60570223″>Link</a></p> Today it is the celebrating of the 125 Years Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand. New Zealand’s Electoral Act of 19 September 1893 made this country the first in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.…
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What is Iwi? What is Whakapapa?
How can these questions help many Māori Deaf persons to understand where and what/who are their ancestors came from? Look at the video via Facebook if you can get access to Kia ora koutou katoa. Ngaa mihi I a tatou katoa. Kei te akonga tonu au I te reo maori o te turi. Ko aku…
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Discovering a new language even a sign language
Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul Ka tae mai ki nga ra whakamutunga i te mutunga o te Wiki Reo Reo Maori. I tenei ra, ko te tangata he wahine Maori Turi, e korero ana mo te…
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Discovering the Māori Deaf/Hard of Hearing people in the past
whaowhia te kete mātauranga (Fill the basket of knowledge) I tenei ra ko te Paraire, a kei te rangahau ahau i roto i nga niupepa maha – Paetukutuku Namapepa. I kite ahau i nga tuhinga tuatahi i roto i nga nupepa – 28 Maehe 1868 me te 26 o Hānuere 1869 . I nga ra…
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Reaching out more Deaf Māori people to embrace their culture again
This week – Te Reo Māori Language.. Here is another video clip to share with you.. Have a look at their Māori (concept) Sign Language. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1975520189137055&id=100000372805465 It is similar to the Kapa Haka pattern. What is Kapa Haka mean to you? Kapa – line Haka – dance Kapa haka is the term for Māori performing…
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Astounding and absurd over the ideas to ban the sign language
One hundred thirty-eight years ago, the significant days 6-11th September was the result of the banning in the sign language for many Deaf people, closing down the Deaf Schools around in UK and Europe including Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the ban of the Teachers of the Deaf. It was really a controversy over sign language (manualism) vs…
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Deaf Māori people
https://youtu.be/HllX6kqfXlc He aha te mea nui I tea ao He tāngata he tāngata he tāngata This Māori Whakataukī (proverbs) showed above and it means “What is the most important thing in the world. It is people, it is people, it is people.” Listen to the song on Youtube. Sorry there is no captioning for many…