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Gagana Tokelau: Tokelauan langauge week

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Hear members from the Wellington Tokelauan community talk about their Tokelauan language and culture.
Themes include stories of the birds of Tokelau and promotion of the Tokelauan language to children.

A display of items from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library relating to Tokelau will be on show after the presentation.
Thursday 25 October 2018
12.10pm - 1.00pm, Te Ahumairangi, National Library, Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon.

Image: Tokelauan children singing at Elsdon Youth Camp in Porirua — Photograph taken by Ian Mackley. Dominion post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1980/0599/15A-F.

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