Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia,...
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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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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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Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand Māori culture Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands Cook Islands Māori...
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Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ), or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of...
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Cook Islanders (redirect from Cook Islands Māori people)
Island Māori descent, 7.62% are Part-Māori from the native Polynesian people of the islands and 14.18% other ethnic origins. Cook Islands Māori share many...
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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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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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Anti-Māori sentiment, broadly defined, is the dislike, distrust, discrimination, and racism directed against Māori people as an ethnicity and Māori culture...
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national Māori flag, also known as the Tino Rangatiratanga flag in reference to the concept of tino rangatiratanga, is used to represent the Māori people of...
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purpose of preserving Māori culture and improving the quality of life of the Māori people over time. The ancestors of the Māori first settled in New Zealand...
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the Māori renaissance. Until World War II, most Māori people spoke Māori as their first language. But by the 1980s, fewer than 20 per cent of Māori spoke...
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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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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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In Māori mythology, as in other Polynesian traditions, Māui is a culture hero and a trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness. He possessed superhuman...
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The Māori land march of 1975 was a protest led by the group Te Rōpū Matakite (Māori for 'Those with Foresight'), created by Dame Whina Cooper. The hīkoi...
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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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central pillar of Māori identity is whakapapa (genealogy), which in its most literal sense requires blood-ancestry to Māori people. Witi Ihimaera, the...
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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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Languages of New Zealand (section Māori)
English in pronunciation, with some key differences. The Māori language of the indigenous Māori people was made the first de jure official language in 1987...
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New Zealanders (redirect from New Zealand people)
724 people (17.5%) claimed Māori descent. 278,199 people identified as of sole Māori ethnicity, while 291,015 identified as of both European and Māori ethnicity...
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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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Tā moko (redirect from Tattooed Māori)
the Māori people, and the traditional implements and methods employed were similar to those used in other parts of Polynesia. In pre-European Māori culture...
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Demographics of New Zealand (redirect from New Zealand/People)
Māori people—and 3.7 percent of all respondents, including some non-Māori people—reported conversational fluency in the language. There are now Māori...
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Moriori (redirect from Moriori people)
Kōpinga Marae Māori landing from the Rodney The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). Moriori are...
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Māori religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and practices of the Māori, the Polynesian indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditional Māori...
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Māori traditional textiles are the indigenous textiles of the Māori people of New Zealand. The organisation Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa, the national...
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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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Māori potatoes or taewa are varieties of potato (Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum and andigena) cultivated by Māori people, especially those grown before...
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of cultural protocol of the Māori people of New Zealand. It is an exchange of calls that forms part of the pōwhiri, a Māori welcoming ceremony. It takes...
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