Rotuman New Zealanders

Since 2018, Gasav Ne Fäeag Rotuạm Ta, or Rotuman Language Week has been celebrated in New Zealand.

The first known Rotuman who lived in New Zealand was Saturday, a Cook Strait whaler who worked for Dicky Barrett in the 1840s.

[3] Rotuman diaspora communities developed in Auckland, Napier and Wellington,[2] and immigration to New Zealand peaked in the 1970s and 1980s.

[3] Between 1977 and 1978, the Auckland-based Pasifika community magazine Mana ran a regular community news column written in Fäeg Rotuḁm (the Rotuman language), written by Joseph T.

[6] In 2016, the Pacific Collections Access Project (PCAP) at Auckland War Memorial Museum worked with the Rotuman New Zealand community to properly label Rotuman cultural artefacts, as many had been labelled more broadly as Fijian cultural artefacts.

[8] In 2018 and 2019, the Auckland Rotuman Fellowship Group lobbied the Ministry for Pacific Peoples to recognise the week nationally.