Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
History. In the early 1970s as a part of the Māori protest movement, activist group Ngā Tamatoa, the Te Reo Māori Society of Victoria University, and Te Huinga Rangatahi (the New Zealand Māori Students’ Association) presented a petition to Parliament, petitioned the government to teach te reo in schools. On 14 September 1972, this petition, signed by over 30,000 people was delivered to Parliament, and became a major event in the revitalisation of te reo in New Zealand. 14 September quickly began celebrated as Māori Language Day, and by 1975, this had grown to  become the first Māori Language Week. 2008. The week in 2008 saw the release of Google Māori, a Māori-language translation of the search engine created as a collaboration between Potaua and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule of Tangatawhenua.com, the Māori Language Commission and Google. The process took over a year and involved more than 40 people on the project, due to the difficulty of translating the technical terminology. 2014. For te Wiki o te Reo Māori in 2014, musicians Stan Walker, Ria Hall, Troy Kingi and Maisey Rika collaborated on the song "Aotearoa", as a challenge to get a second song  in te reo to reach number one in New Zealand (after "Poi E" in 1984). 2015. On August 2, to celebrate Māori Language Week the Black Caps (the New Zealand national cricket team) played under the name of Aotearoa for their first match against Zimbabwe. 2016. Maimoa (then known as Pūkana and Whānau), a musical group created from the presenters of the Māori Television show "Pūkana" celebrated te Wiki o te Reo Māori by releasing the single "Maimoatia", written with Te Haumihiata Mason. The song topped the iTunes downloads chart in New Zealand, reaching number 4 on the Official New  Zealand Music Chart's subchart for New Zealand musicians. 2017. The 2016 Disney film "Moana" was dubbed into Māori, premiering in Auckland on September 11 as a part of te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2017. Rachel House, Jemaine Clement, Temuera Morrison, and Oscar Kightley, all cast members of the original English language version of the film, reprised their respective roles in the te reo version. During the week, 30 theatres across the country held free screenings of the reo version. 2019. During Māori Language Week 2019, it was reported in New Zealand media that even kaumātua (elders) were learning  te reo (Māori language). It was also reported that more than one fifth of book sales during that week were Māori. To mark the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Rugby World Cup semi-final, where Hinewehi Mohi performed the national anthem in te reo, Mohi created "Waiata / Anthems", an album where 11 New Zealand musicians re-recorded songs into te reo Māori. The album debuted at number 1 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, and was one of the most successful albums of 2019 in New Zealand. 2021. At midday on 14 September 2021, te Wiki o te Reo  Māori was celebrated with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori - the Māori Language Moment, where over 1.1 million people pledged to use te reo at the same time. Due to the success of "Waiata / Anthems" in 2019, the project was expanded to become Waiata Anthems Week, an annual release of a playlist in Te Reo Māori, with the goal of making the New Zealand music scene more bilingual. In 2021, more than 30 musicians participated in the project, including Six60, whose single "Pepeha" debuted at number two on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. Te Tairāwhiti (Gisborne Region)-based choir  Ka Hao also saw charting success, with their single collaborating with songwriter Rob Ruha, "35" (a reference to State Highway 35), reaching number 25. September saw the release of many albums by popular musicians sung in te reo, including Lorde's "Te Ao Mārama", Stan Walker's "Te Arohanui", Alien Weaponry's "Tangaroa", and Ka Hao's "Ka Hao: One Tira, One Voice".