Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia,...
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Look up Māori, māori, Maori, or maori in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Māori or Maori can refer to: Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that...
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Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ; endonym: te reo Māori 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to te reo) is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language...
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Māori culture (Māori: Māoritanga) is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand. It originated from, and is still...
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In New Zealand politics, Māori electorates, colloquially known as the Māori seats (Māori: Ngā tūru Māori), are a special category of electorate that give...
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The Māori King movement, called the Kīngitanga in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central...
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New Zealand (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island...
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Google Māori is a Māori-led initiative which was made possible by Google's popular Google in Your Language initiative, which saw the translation of Google's...
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⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of Māori is typical for a Polynesian language, with its phonetic inventory being...
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Māori Americans are Americans of Māori descent, an ethnic group from New Zealand. Some Māori are Mormons and are drawn to Mormon regions of Hawaii and...
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Pākehā Māori or Pakeha Maori were early European settlers (known as Pākehā in the Māori language) who lived among the Māori in New Zealand. Many Pākehā...
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Taha Māori is a New Zealand phrase, used in both Māori and New Zealand English. It means "the Māori side (of a question)" or "the Māori perspective" as...
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Traditional Māori music, or pūoro Māori, is composed or performed by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music...
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Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern...
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Maori chief may refer to: Rangatira, a hereditary chieftain in Māori culture Notothenia angustata, a species of fish often referred to by the common name...
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Māori renaissance, as a turning point in New Zealand's history, describes a loosely defined period between 1970 and the early 2000s, in which Māori took...
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Zealand Māori. Cook Islands Māori is simply called Māori when there is no need to disambiguate it from New Zealand Māori, but it is also known as Māori Kūki...
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Maori Songs is a traditional album released by New Zealand opera diva, Kiri Te Kanawa in 1999 to celebrate the new millennium. Maori Songs was recorded...
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The history of the Māori began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori), in a series of ocean migrations in canoes starting...
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approximately 900 Māori Wardens in New Zealand who are volunteers providing support, security, traffic and crowd control and first aid, under the Māori Community...
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Haka (redirect from Maori haka)
(/ˈhɑːkə/, /ˈhækə/; singular haka, in both Māori and English) are a variety of ceremonial dances in Māori culture. A performance art, haka are often performed...
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Tikanga is a Māori term for Māori law, customary law, attitudes and principles, and also for the indigenous legal system which all iwi abided by prior...
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Māori Muslims are a small minority community in New Zealand. Islam was estimated to be the fastest growing religion among the Māori, however recently...
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Maori Xingguan (Chinese: 昴日星官; lit. 'The Sun Rooster of Hairy Head') is a deity in the traditional Chinese spiritual beliefs. Maori is considered to be...
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Māori politics (Māori: tōrangapū Māori) is the politics of the Māori people, who were the original inhabitants of New Zealand and who are now the country's...
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Te Pāti Māori (Māori pronunciation: [tɛ ˈpaːti ˈmaːori]), also known as the Māori Party, is a political party in New Zealand advocating Māori rights....
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trusts and other Māori entities. The Māori Trustee administers about 1,800 Māori land trusts, which is about one third of such trusts. Māori land trusts are...
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Māori Indians (or Indo-Māori) are an ethnic group in New Zealand of people with mixed Māori and Indian ancestry. The earliest record of a mixed Indo-Māori...
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Whakaata Māori is a New Zealand television channel that broadcasts programmes that make a significant contribution to the revitalisation of the Māori language...
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Mātauranga (literally Māori knowledge) is a modern term for the traditional knowledge of the Māori people of New Zealand. Māori traditional knowledge...
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