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Māori have a long history in the area, finding the lake and its surroundings offering an abundance of food in the form of eels and bird such as pigeon and New Zealand Kaka ( forest parrot ).
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The most distinctive influences on New Zealand English have come from Australian English, British English in Southern England, Irish English, Scottish English, the prestige Received Pronunciation, and Māori .< ref >
Individuals of Māori or other Polynesian descent are often afforded improved access to university courses, or have scholarships earmarked specifically for them.
The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.
From as early as the late 1880s, some versions of the Māori translation of the National Anthem have been incorrect.
Although several Māori names have been used, Maori Language Commissioner Erima Henare sees Te Ika-a-Māui as the most likely choice.
Although several Māori names have been used, Maori Language Commissioner Erima Henare sees Te Wai Pounamu as the most likely choice.
The lagoons which form on the MSG coastlines are common on the east coast of the South Island, New Zealand and have long been referred to as ' hapua ' by the Māori.
In some Māori legends, Pouakai kill humans, which scientists believe could have been possible if the name relates to the eagle, given the massive size and strength of the bird.
These birds might have been a last remnant of the species, but some might argue that there had not been suitable prey for a population of Haast's Eagle to maintain itself for about five hundred years before that date, and 19th century Māori lore was adamant that the pouakai was a bird not seen in living memory.
A comment in Grey's Polynesian Mythology may have given the Māori something they did not have before — as A. W Reed put it, " In Polynesian Mythology Grey said that when Tāwhaki's ancestors released the floods of heaven, the earth was overwhelmed and all human beings perished — thus providing the Māori with his own version of the universal flood " ( Reed 1963: 165, in a footnote ).
In Māori, a tribe that has mana whenua must have demonstrated their authority over a piece of land or territory.
While other Polynesian legends tell stories of great journeys from a ' homeland ,' like the mythologies of Hawai ' i and New Zealand Māori, Samoans differ, in that they say they have always been on Samoa, the Earth.
In some Māori legends Pouakai kill humans, which could have been possible if the name relates to the Haast's Eagle given the massive size and strength of the bird ( which is believed to have hunted Moa weighing up to ).
Such a creature could very well have killed and eaten humans, Haast's Eagles did not become extinct until several hundred years after the arrival of the Māori.
There are 69 constituency members, seven of whom are elected by the Māori who have chosen to vote in special Māori seats, while the remaining 51 members are elected by proportional representation from party lists.
Other parts of the world also have a tradition of ventriloquism for ritual or religious purposes ; the Zulus, Eskimo, and Māori are all adept at this practice.
Māori have looked to the Treaty for rights and remedies for land loss and unequal treatment by the state, with mixed success.
From the late 1960s Māori began drawing attention to breaches of the Treaty, and subsequent histories have emphasised problems with its translation.
Many Māori feel that the Crown did not fulfil its obligations under the Treaty, and have presented evidence of this before sittings of the Tribunal.
Some non-Māori New Zealanders have suggested that Māori may be abusing the Treaty in order to claim " special privileges ".
Māori and long
The Māori Language Commission ( Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori ) advocates that macrons be used to designate long vowels.
The Māori Language Commission, set up by the Māori Language Act 1987 to act as the authority for Māori spelling and orthography, favours the use of macrons, which are now the established means of indicating long vowels.
As noted above, it has recently become standard in Māori spelling to indicate a long vowel by a macron.
1. 4m long with a 3m wingspan, it became extinct around the 15th century, but probably inspired the Māori legend of Te Hokioi or Te Hakawai.
The area now covered by the city was originally the site of a handful of Māori villages ( kāinga ), including Pukete, Miropiko and Kirikiriroa (" long stretch of gravel '), from which the city takes its Māori name.
In Māori tradition, the Maero ( or Mohoao ) are wild, violent men with long, bony fingers and long, dirty hair.
The red ensign may continue to be flown on land in Māori areas or during Māori events under the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 in recognition of long held Māori preference for red flags.
The majority of Māori were keen to sign to consolidate peace and end the long inter-tribal Musket Wars 1807 – 1842.
Again, while the Māori warrior was a civilian part-time fighter who could not afford to be away from home for too long, the British force consisted of professional soldiers supported by an economic system capable of sustaining them in the field almost indefinitely.
With the help of wakas, pre-European Māori deployed seine nets which could be over one thousand metres long.
General Cameron was very conscious of the fact that he was operating at the end of a long and vulnerable supply line, which Māori forces demonstrated by attacking numerous points along the route.
Most of the captured Māori subsequently escaped from Kawau Island and returned to the Waikato but by then the war was long over.
The Raglan area has been inhabited for at least 800 years and was originally known by Māori as Whangaroa “ the long pursuit ”.
Arriving back in their own tribal territories the war party found that the Waikato and Ngāti Maniapoto Māori had decided the Ngati Toa were undesirable neighbours and fora long time astae of war existed between them.
The campaigns sparked a series of arrests, resulting in more than 400 Māori being jailed in the South Island, where they remained without trial for as long as 16 months.
Māori attracted the Huia by imitating its call and then captured it with a tari ( a carved pole with a noose at the end ) or snare, or killed it with clubs or long spears.
While Māori had long known of its existence, the first European to reach the lake is thought to have been Nathaniel Chalmers in 1853.
Māori and history
The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land.
Traditional Māori society preserved history orally through narratives, songs, and chants ; skilled experts could recite the tribal genealogies ( whakapapa ) back for hundreds of years.
The only general history written from a Māori perspective ; fair, informative and interesting.
Since about 1800, the Māori language has had a tumultuous history.
Category: Māori history
Māori culture has predominated for most of New Zealand's history of human habitation.
Māori established separate tribes, built fortified villages ( Pā ), hunted and fished, traded commodities, developed agriculture, arts and weaponry, and kept a detailed oral history.
Māori cultural history is inextricably tied into a larger Polynesian phenomenon.
Napier has well-documented Māori history.
New Zealand's music is influenced by the culture of the indigenous Māori and immigrants from the Pacific region, though its musical origins lie predominantly in British colonial history, with contributions from America, the rest of Europe and elsewhere.
Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.
Category: Māori history
Who want to forget their origins, their history, their cultural inheritance — who want Māori, likewise, to deny their origins so that we can all start off afresh.
Flax is a plant that has played an important part in the cultural and economic history of New Zealand for both the Māori people and the later European settlers.
In New Zealand history, the Wairau Affray ( called the Wairau Massacre in older texts ) on 17 June 1843 was the first serious clash of arms between Māori and the British settlers after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the only one to take place in the South Island.
* The Kapiti coast: Māori history and place names / by W. Carkeek.
Huntly and its surrounding area is steeped in Māori history and falls within the rohe ( tribal area ) of Waikato-Tainui of the Tainui waka confederation.
Had the Māori Tribes been united, the subsequent history of New Zealand could have been different.
In New Zealand political and social history, the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (), was signed by a number of Māori chiefs in 1835, proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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Category: Māori history
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The South Canterbury Museum is the main museum for the region, containing exhibits relating to physical geography and the environment, fossil remains, Māori rock art, the early settlement of the district, local maritime history, scrimshaw, the E P Seally natural history collection, and information about Richard Pearse, a local inventor and his attempts at manned flight in the first years of the 20th century.
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