Nga Wai Hono i te Po, the youngest child of the late monarch, crowned
The coffin containing the body of Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, the Maori king, is carried up Taupiri Mountain in New Zealand for burial. Photograph: Alan Gibson/APNew Zealand’s Maori chiefs have crowned a new queen in a traditional ceremony which also laid to rest King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII.
After her ascension, Queen Nga Wai accompanied the late king’s coffin in a flotilla of traditional canoes along the river as he was guided by Maori warriors to his final resting place. His daughter’s ascension represents the rise of a new generation of Maori leaders in New Zealand, one which grew up steeped in a resurging language that had once almost died out.
“The best protest we can make right now is being Maori. Be who we are. Live our values. Speak our reo,” he told them, using the Māori word for language. “Just be Maori. Be Maori all day, every day. We are here. We are strong.” Tens of thousands of ordinary people also flocked there. Many spoke to each other in Māori, a language that had steadily waned after colonization until activists in the 1970s provoked its renaissance. Among their initiatives was the establishment of Māori language pre-schools, the first graduates of which are now young adults.
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