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How to use Maori in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Maori? Here are some examples.

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With a background in agriculture and languages, Hazel decided to learn Maori extramurally through Massey University.
The 17-year-old is committed to her Maoritanga and a fluent te reo speaker, as well as a talented artist often focusing on Maori themes.
Suspicions were cast over two Maori flutes and a pair of Marquesan stilt steps he had purchased.
The judge is on the marae, he does something that someone says is contrary to tikanga Maori, and, bang, the judge is up on a complaint.
He was bang on, too, in his observations about the entrepreneurial nature of Maori.
In 1867, the Maori won the right to a certain number of reserved seats in Parliament.
What initiatives has the Government implemented to build capacity in the Maori tourism business sector?
Baptists have proven the least able of the traditional denominations to learn from Maori ways and thought forms.
His work explored issues concerned with identity, politics, and colonization between the native Maori and European cultures.
It provides education for children using the Maori language as the medium of instruction.
However, some Maori report cases of prejudice and discrimination against them.
By disempowerment, the tribunal referred to the denigration and destruction of Maori autonomy, or self-government.
These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country.
That is, the structure, semantics, composition and constructs of Maori language itself.
No, what he felt for was the little smooth object sewn at the back of his silver fern, a greenstone tiki presented by the Maori people of Hawera.
The name of the Labour Party leader's dog, Tino Rangatiratanga, might seem to better befit the family pet of a Maori Party politician.
Sovereignty was understood as 'more control over resources', or 'sovereignty as Maori government', or sovereignty as tino rangatiratanga.
A number of the Maori members have talked about the importance of tino rangatiratanga.
This replicates a traditional Maori War Club used by Maori warriors of old.
A Maori warrior made his mere of greenstone, an igneous rock, and ground one side to a sharp edge.
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It specifically prevents the Maori Land Court granting freehold title to Maori tribes that claim customary ownership.
Artisans such as tattoo artists, canoe builders, house builders, and carvers were all classified as tohunga in Maori.
She explains that the tohunga of old practiced in the best interests of Maori and cared for their spiritual needs.
A week later, a larger party of some 200 Maori appeared, this time with spears slung over their backs, and muskets and tomahawks.
Maori names can be difficult to get your tongue round and my mind blends similar names into one.
This is not like treaty claims, because the Maori Land Court will have teeth and power in a way that the Waitangi Tribunal does not.
This is an area long in history of the Maori and of early white settlement.
The trip passes many different points of historical interest relating to both early European and Maori settlement.
Speaker David Carter opened proceedings with a prayer and Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta gave a mihi in Maori.
They show their appreciation when they are entertained by mihi of welcome in the Maori language.
When I rose to welcome us all with a short mihi in Maori, my reception was a stunned and stony silence.
In the final session, students debated the merits of acknowledging taha Maori in their practice, traversing issues raised by Johnstone and Read.
It corrected some of the misapprehension of New Zealanders, stating that the Moriori were from the same East Polynesian background as the Maori.
Maori wrasse, sweetlips, trevallies, grouper and every variety of Indo-Pacific coral browser hover around.
With gray hair and full body tattoos, the actress is briefly seen as an old Maori tribeswoman held as a slave.
Other topics for the group include the correct pronunciation of Maori vowels and the distinction between moko and other tattoos.
I was looking for some info on the Maori style of tattooing, moko, and happened across this interesting article, Megalithic New Zealand.
Like many Maori arts, the art of tukutuku came perilously close to being lost.
Part of it seems to be an appropriation and sharing of the Maori concept of turangawaewae.
The Maori poet has been invited to visit and read poetry on his turangawaewae.
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Almost a thousand mourners attended the funeral, with the local Maori meeting house overflowing for the hour-long service.
Maori spun muka into thread and used it to weave warm clothes and make ropes, fishing nets and many other things.
Neither the Maori pa nor the Muscovite fort had an impact on forests similar to the Japanese castle-construction binge.
The drop in Maori unemployment on a proportionate basis has been most impressive.
Noelle, on the other hand, works with unfired clay, which is not a traditional Maori artform.
Maori on the muttonbirding islands used to drape the cool tuatara on their stomachs to help them cool down.
The Maori had taken huge quantities of eels and mutton birds back to New Zealand.
He decided to implement a new approach to Maori education by drawing energy into farming as well as bookwork.
Margery's particular study has been of the finely twined decorative borders known as taniko, a technique which appears to be unique to the Maori.
He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter.
These settlements provide the opportunity for Maori New Zealanders to move forward with all others in the spirit of shared nationhood.
Critics say he is too unworldly even to understand the hurt he has caused Maori.
Ancient Maori who ate their adversaries as an act of defilement or humiliation transformed the act into noa.
And it will be done not by treating the Maori as noble savages, but simply by treating them as equals.
The hut is still there in the bush above Maori Flat, on the east side of Rough Creek.
He says some Maori were given less than a day's notice to prepare an oral submission, on what is a major piece of legislation.
In the haka, a Maori tradition, the rugby players get in formation, jump up and down, and chant.
The haka dance of the Maori is one of the best-known cultural traditions of Polynesia.
A Maori haka had fired them up, but alone with their thoughts they contemplated the long day in front of them.
Both Maori and British common law require continuous occupation and control for common law ownership.
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Consequently because of us, the Maori has been handicapped in his development as a free people.
So, if Maori have taken hangi stones from the beach from 1840 until now they can continue to do so.
Our hotel, like several in Rotorua, has an evening hangi feast, complete with Maori dances and a thundering, in-your-face haka.
This model does not give fisheries to the Maori hapu and iwi that had them.
Dover Samuels is history, as are a bunch of Labour Maori MPs I have hardly ever heard of.
Some of them are clearly members of the Austronesian language family, the family that also includes such languages as Malay, Hawaiian, and Maori.
The Maori chief was said to have made his own way from Hawaiki on the back of a ray.
The Maori people believe that this is where their spirit goes on their journey to the Afterlife, before departing to Hawaiki.
Maori are the tangata whenua of New Zealand, landing 1000 years ago from the mythical Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki.
The Maori adorn themselves with the plumes just as the natives of New Guinea crown their headdresses with Bird-of paradise feathers.
Collectors and the general public are most familiar with Maori carving and sculpture.
The TV finally arrived and you would have had to be a very stony-hearted New Zealander not to be moved by Maori Television Service's first day.
Maori folklore focuses on oppositions between pairs, such as earth and sky, life and death, and male and female.
We know that Maori made up a name for orange roughy when it was discovered in the 1980s, and perhaps there is a similar explanation in this case.
Considered a good luck charm, hei-tikis are still items of prestige and exchange in traditional Maori society.
The Maori of New Zealand carve hei-tikis from jade which are passed from generation to generation, connecting the wearer to their ancestors.
The presence of two Maori and three women in this book confirm that heroism is independent of race and gender.
Worse still, in their name, those seven Maori members are subjugating them to absolute insults.
Mr Brown had taught at Tolaga Bay and was able to teach his pupils Maori songs, chants, poi dances and a haka.
Ten percent of the foreshore and seabed is owned down to the mean high water spring by Maori under Maori title.
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In early May, some 15,000 people protested outside parliament following a two-week hikoi by Maori.
The massive disruption estimated by the illegal Maori hikoi turned out to be adequately managed by the police.
Another correspondent defines as holocausts the almost total destruction of some Maori tribes by other tribes.
Despite attempts to follow Maori protocols in relation to the paepae, a senior Australian politician was accidentally placed in the front row.
The latest New Zealand Census-Mortality Study shows that Maori die younger than pakeha, even after controlling for socioeconomic status.
Maori people returning to their papakainga will be subject to the new provisions of the remote areas policy.
The Maori social housing provider endorses building papakainga for families in need.
The Maori in New Zealand have used humming tops, with specially-crafted holes, in mourning ceremonies.
Cotton's highly symbolic paintings make statements about the value of land, Maori land concerns and the impact of colonisation.
From the demonology of the Maori people of New Zealand comes a race of demonic fay known as the patupaiarehe.
It is claimed the Patupaiarehe were the original inhabitants of NZ before the Maori.
The Maori elements are to be found in the bands of symmetrically ordered paua shell inlay, a customary ceremonial and artistic material.
Maori children experiment with smoking to demonstrate and ensure their membership in the family and in their peer group.
For centuries, the Maori had traditionally colored their carvings with paint that did not dry.
Britain's colonial policy was shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori.
Three million acres of Maori land were confiscated, some restored, but the sale and loss of Maori territory continued.
At one time all land was Maori land, save for the land that was confiscated, and we are having a debate about that.
There is a photo of him having a piupiu wrapped around him by a Maori woman at Wellington airtport.
The international media's attention was drawn sharply to a heavily tattooed Maori warrior, wearing nothing but a flax skirt with a black thong.
As for the use of the Maori language, how can an interpreter translate adequately on the spur of the moment?
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Maori belongs to the Tahitic branch of the Eastern Polynesian language group.
We both know that the Maori population were the original inhabitants of the land.
And as soon as we structure our business as a Maori authority, we will be in like Flynn at the 19.5 percent rate.
It has created false hope and expectations that have left far too many Maori craving a fool's paradise that can never really be a reality.
Maori representatives have put together some awesome proposals, such as covenants of access and non-saleability.
Beyond that, I also said that assets such as forestry and fish are now being steered and managed by Maori governance.
He was charging the cray fishermen a fee to cross Maori land to launch their boats.
He knew that his people wouldn't carry out that wish because it's not customary within general Maori protocol to cremate the dead.
Then Maori used it, extensively, in regular migrations, and as a portage route for pounamu.
The Powhiri is still performed at Maori meetings and visits of dignitaries to a marae.
He and his jubilant teammates landed at Auckland Airport yesterday morning to a rapturous crowd of supporters and a heart-warming Maori powhiri.
Nonetheless, revenues from pre-emptive purchases of Maori land were the mainstay of the Crown government's budget.
In Maori land tenure, tribal boundaries were defined by the putative area settled and utilized by the ancestors, modified by wars and invasions.
From birth, Maori record proportionately higher rates of hospital admission for asthma and glue ear.
A few Maori left in the pa fired a few last desultory shots on the stranded soldiers, until a second battle began.
The leading Maori bellowed, leaped up and down, and stomped in his grass skirt and waved a stone club artfully to and fro.
In early 1913 six Maori greenstone artefacts disappeared from a showcase in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
The earliest known history of the town was as a stopping place for parties of Maori who had come through the Haast Pass in search of greenstone.
As well as the picture of the Maori warrior, the diggers have also uncovered a rua, which is a large bowl-shaped underground storage structure.
I try to model myself on the elder statesman of Maori in this House, and to follow the way he performs.
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Also, isolation through moving to urban centres means many Maori have been dislocated from vital support networks.
Indeed, the report of the Maori Affairs Committee states expressly that neither of them owns the service.
The accounts given by those doctors who had Maori ancestry were real eye-openers.
A Maori village consisted of those of chiefly rank, the main chief, the main body of the village and a small group of slaves.
The Maori cuisine is based on seafood, mutton birds, wild pork or fowl, fat lamb, and kumara.
Many accommodations can be made for Maori so they can pursue their cultural heritage that make little or no impact on anyone else.
Our academics have won prizes for their work on Maori but it is my guess that much of their work won't wear well over time.
Some Maori elders are now talking about putting a rahui, or ban, on methamphetamine, and I will give every support I can to their efforts.
I know some wet urban liberals who are thinking of voting for the Maori Party.
An exhibition within the exhibition showcases a selection of taonga that were included in Te Maori.
As mentioned by previous speakers, whakapapa links are important and will be a concern for Maori and Pacific Island groups.
The Native Health Act of 1909 meant that Maori women could no longer breast feed, nor use whangai systems to adopt children.
Maori scraped it with mussel shells, wove it into fishing nets, made eel traps and tukutuku panels to decorate whare.
Perhaps two years later, Maori went back to the site and built the big wharenui on top of the site.
The first is that the economic and social advancement of Maori is critical to New Zealand's future growth, prosperity, and well-being.
At this point I would like to acknowledge the new Maori rangatira in the National Party, the shadow Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Gerry Brownlee.
In turn, the Government acknowledged our rights of rangatiratanga over matters Maori.
Because of this, Maori have to somehow exercise rangatiratanga within the mainstream legal system.
An increasing number of Maori landowners are striving to achieve economic and sustainable farming operations as kaitiaki of their land.
A media frenzy followed that whipped up fear and outrage against the Maori people.
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Young Maori leaders who are role models are coming to Parliament to present their kaupapa and to present who they are.
They have called for research methodologies that validate the authenticity of Maori pedagogy and kawa.
Despite attempts to follow Maori kawa, a senior Australian politician was accidentally placed in the front row.
The programme has taken some care to successfully combine cognitive-behavioural psychology with Maori kawa.
More than 500 signed the Maori version, which gives kawanatanga to the Queen, but tino rangatiratanga remains with Maori.
He willed the farm to Annie before lapsing into delirium and feverishly mumbling his last words in the Maori he knew so well.
He is still heavily involved in Mahi Tahi, a Trust working to reclaim Maori prisoners by linking them to their racial traditions.
I ask our Maori members why we do not leave it to the kohanga reo, to the kura kaupapa, and to all the programmes the polytechs currently run.
After an initial surge of enrolments in kohanga and kura, enthusiasm among Maori has waned.
There is no access for Maori children to kura in a large part of the city where Maori children live.
It's further evidence that smaller class sizes in those kura work well for Maori students.
Such other object or purpose shall be directly or indirectly associated with or relating to the descendants of the original Maori alienors.
While the land remained Maori freehold land, the preferred class of alienees had a right of first refusal if it was to be alienated.
She understands both Maori and Pakeha ways of relating to each other and of doing business.
Whakatane is the chief service town for the eastern Bay of Plenty and was the landfall for the first Maori arrivals.
This poem is an arresting comment on the similar experiences of oppression suffered by Maori and by American Indians.
Webster employs this episode in a final analysis of the anatomy of contemporary New Zealand anthropology and Maori studies.
That area, which belongs to the Maori people there in terms of ancestral use, he would walk all over.
Maybe it's the Maori ancestral blood going all kooky at being reunited with its ancient habitat?
Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
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Maori justice is essentially restorative justice, and restorative justice can lead us forward.
He did not hear them, because 95 percent of the submissions Maori made are opposed to the bill, but he is still supporting it anyway.
Ritually tattooed from his waist to his knees, the Maori artist gently paints the bull's skinny shanks.
Maori unemployment is half the level it reached in the wake of Labour Rogernomics.
The outside is Tudor style architecture in contrast to the ornamented Maori art inside.
Those strange new paintings were rooted in the Maori figurative traditions that emerged on the East Coast in the late 19th century.
It is about he being the acceptable Maori candidate and the biggest ariki in the caucus.
Kaumatua, or elder, Wara Heremaia told the crowd Maori had gathered to celebrate the power of aroha, something akin to love, rather than anger.
I heard chirpy ads in Maori, cool songs about aroha in Maori, measured words in Maori.
Then we continued on to the Blue Lake, where eating and drinking would trample Maori sensitivities, since they regard it as a sacred spot.
There will be some talk here, and whatever comes out of the hui I'm sure it will be a Maori view.
It is closely related to the other languages of Polynesia including Tahitian, Tonga, Maori, and Rarotongan.
He is training the first-born boys of the tribe in the traditional chants and skills of Maori warriors, especially the use of the taiaha.
A Maori language group says that the minister needs to taihoa on any changes to Maori language agencies.
His best work, often direct copies of authentic Maori artefacts, deceived art experts and collectors around the world.
Telling the New Zealand public that Maori have unlimited tangi leave is a canard.
He has suggested that he would hire a Pakeha over a Maori of equal merit because, he said, Maori could claim unlimited tangi leave.
Both the Crown and Maori recognise obligations to protect and promote te reo Maori as a taonga.
This is especially apparent in the little black hole in which the Maori taonga and artefacts are presented.
I turned round and there behind me stood an enormous Maori man whose tattooed biceps bulged from his singlet.
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I can translate my own Maori, just in case somebody does not understand what I am talking about.
I did not grow up using Maori language or really understanding tikanga Maori.
It has its own grammatical structure different from that of either English or Maori.
Especially with languages as different in their origins as English and Maori, this is not possible.
There is a requirement in this House that speeches be given in English or Maori.
The member does not know whether we were translating English into Maori, or Maori into English.
As the member has reiterated, Maori is an official language and that is where it stands.
I use te reo Maori as part of my journey, learning the language, and as a sign of my respect and love for te reo.
It was forbidden to speak Maori within the school grounds that she attended on the East Coast.
I do not want to say that in Maori, because somebody might ask me to interpret what I really mean.
Like all other languages that have grown up in an oral tradition, Maori has been a performance language.
He gave a very good rendition of that recital as it is, in Maori, and then requested that it be translated.
He was enrolled to major in English and Maori, but he found that it was not the place for him.
One can now get up, speak in Maori, get double the time, and thus cut off the ACT party.
This bill goes through a complicated recital of grievance, in English and in Maori.
She went straight into kura kaupapa Maori and is now a very fluent speaker of te reo.
If they can't cope in English how would they cope in Maori or any other second language.
Sometimes Bev hears a string of words in Maori in her sleep that she notes down when she wakes.
He said something in Maori, and people who cannot speak Maori did not know what it meant.
It's about a poor urban Maori community, domestic violence and the triumph of the human spirit.
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One nomination has been received so far for the region's three new Maori constituency seats.
The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between Maori chiefs and the Crown.
It is a history-mystery as bad science collides with Maori culture and starts to shake the present.
Demographers will say that the Maori population is younger than average and children don't pay tax.
The character of Maori interactions with the State is not a major theme of your book.
Public Health nurses visited the Maori communities and attended to babies and school children.
At the south end we have those Maori palisades lining the road but the entrance to the CBD is a line of white crosses.
The collection also includes other Maori art forms such as carving, tukutuku panels and flax weaving.
Although some do need help or training in managing their new assets and starting up new Maori businesses.
Many of the Maori tribes had made it clear that they would not support any Maori party that was exclusive or separatist.
The PM has announced an inquiry into the allegations that the SIS spied on Maori groups.
This situation would have created considerable problems if there had been a large number of Maori seats.
We are not talking here just about Maori land, language, culture, and things like that.
It was emphasised that the programme was not an introduction to Maori culture and language.
Maori representation could be up to list selection, rather than Maori seats.
In this case, here are the relevant sections outlining the protection of Maori interests.
Oh, I mean, take us out into the bush and show us an authentic Maori village as if it was a couple hundred years ago.
We've just witnessed a ground breaking and probably farcical Maori by-election.
I am not sure that the most influential voices in Maoridom yet realise the real cause of today's Maori problems.
The Maori Party's constitution reaffirms and regenerates the main principles of Maoridom.
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It's bizarre that he can only see Maori becoming New Zealanders when they give up their Maoriness.
They have shown, in essence, that they do not understand what Maori tino rangatiratanga is.
He pointed to recent archaeological investigations which indicated that Maori had overexploited resources such as seals, marine crayfish and birds of several varieties.
The play looks at the stresses caused by having different degrees of fluency in Maori, as the children, students and whangai of a Maori educator gather at his tangi.
The fern most prized by the Maori was Asplenium bulbiferum, the hen and chicken fern, so called because of its habit of producing new plants on the old fronds.
They took some loot and burnt some whares and shot an old Maori.
Anyway, Helen doesn't need to dig up dirt on the Maori party.
Britain's colonial policy, which resulted in the annexation of NZ in 1840, was also shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori.
It was designed to financially and politically promote already advantaged middle-class layers and business interests among the Maori and Pacific Island communities.
One intense young American with Maori tattoos on his legs and a straggling beard tells his fascinated fellows of his experiments with colonic irrigation.
I have a fabulous image of a hongi in an advert for the Maori TV channel.
The fact is that neither in the Treaty of Waitangi or anywhere else did Maori ever agree to relinquish their guardianship or rights over the foreshore and seabed.
The teacher said kohanga was a place where children were not only taken care of but taught all aspects of Maori life. Kapa haka is just one part of the culture.
The event was a resounding success, with 41 Kapa Haka from around New Zealand and Australia and over 20,000 spectators celebrating the best of Maori culture.
It tells the story of a polluted river, a consultation with a kaumatua, traditional Maori gods destroying a factory, and an expression of Maori sovereignty.
Why should people in the Maori community all be of one mind?
Named after the Maori forest god, the largest living kauri has stretched to 167 feet in height in its 1200-plus years.
Garnish with purple Maori potato, vegetables and lightly fried kawakawa leaves.
Although the British had an advantage in arms, Maori had an advantage in tactics, and their pa of earth and wooden palisades absorbed artillery shells.
Explanations given to Maori at the time of signing emphasised the role of this kawanatanga in curbing the excesses of Pakeha settlers and protecting Maori.
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The fisho was a big Maori bloke, covered in those warrior tattoos.
It is principally for Maori communities occupying their papakainga.
If the Government is discussing a co-partnership with Maori on the foreshore issue, what are the Government's intentions concerning the co-partnership?
It is believed Smith was the last person to have seen the now-extinct huia, whose tail feathers were used by Maori chiefs as a symbol of their mana.
There is an old Maori saying that the kumara never says how sweet it is.
Of course it isn't right but, for us Maori folk, this is our daily battle.
A major proportion of Maori live in urban areas, but our people are increasingly looking to their roots through a range of mediums such as sports or ta moko.
He is equally emphatic about the need to promote Maori language.
I have hope for my mokopuna and Maori kids at kura throughout Aotearoa, for they have a joy and a passion for being Maori that simply did not exist when I was a kid.
The right of pre-emption or exclusive purchase in the same article was used by the Crown to lawfully extinguish Maori customary title and thereby allow alienation.
Because of her spiritual and cultural relationship with Maori communities in connection with her skills in tukutuku, I felt there was something here to be shared.
We argue this examination needs to take into account the status of Maori under the Treaty, and to recognise the reiterative and regulatory role of media discourses.
The table below shows how, as the Crown's policy of pre-emption took effect, the burden of providing revenue fell upon Maori to finance the colony's development.
In trying to persuade the audience of a perspective that could be viewed as favourable to Maori, he courts the risk of being judged as partial, radical or extreme.
In the land of the long white cloud, Maori minds are being challenged.
Maori began to barter muka for muskets and other European goods.
The respected Maori member Mita Ririnui graciously gave up his speaking slot in deference to his colleague Tariana Turia, who had previously been denied a slot.
Do you really think that the brave old blokes from the 28th Maori Battalion who defended Crete would appreciate people this like rocking up to a dawn service?
Muru was a means for seeking justice in traditional Maori society.
National's Maori member has earned the opportunity to at least be associated with the rumours that are being bandied around this House in relation to the leadership change.
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Maori Culture practiced Muru and that carries through to this day.
You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
The town's Maori heritage remains evident everywhere, from the carved fascia boards of ceremonial marae meeting houses to the war canoes and ubiquitous tiki figures.
The haka, a traditional Maori dance, is best known as the pregame ritual of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.
The linguist had Maori friends and learned their language which helped him acquire fluency in the cognate language of Tikopia in his later fieldwork.
Does privilege mean that we Maori dominate certain illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, glue ear, and others, and that we die 10 years earlier than Pakeha?
Certainly, within Maori heritage, oral history is of extreme importance, and it is extremely important that it is taken down and recorded in an appropriate fashion.
These policies have usurped traditional Maori authority while denying Maori a significant position in the newly established political and social orders.
This story says that a Waitangi Tribunal report to be issued today will find that Taranaki Maori are entitled to a share of the profits from our oil and gas fields.
On average, Maori life expectancy is 10 years less than that of Pakeha.
In the contemporary talk of Pakeha the idea of Maori as a national group is unpolitic and raises difficult questions about Maori sovereignty and the status of Pakeha.
The animals are revered by the Maori as a taonga, or treasure.
National members said they would recognise the relationship of Maori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, wahi tapu, and other taonga.
What they cannot accept is the fact that they currently have a Government that thinks it can condescend to Maori and give them a special preference when they do not need it.
Maori submitters told us they had the proof and would table it.
For me, there is an upside, a project I've been approached to work on has, inherently, some element of Maori music, its history and its direction.
Since the treaty was signed in 1840 and purchases were made until recently, and since Maori have become urbanized, the legitimacy of land claims is complex.
It was because that group poses a threat to the Maori vote that is now currently held by a Government that treats that vote in a condescending, patronising manner.
But even the most adventuresome eaters have probably never eaten Maori pikopiko pesto.
However one Maori king has refused to meet the royals saying the 45-minute window he was allotted was not sufficiently respectful.
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The Maori component includes some songs in traditional waiata style composed by Wi Kuki Kaa, and some engaging sounds from Richard Nunns playing Maori instruments.
Those seven Maori members say that, above all else, they speak for Maori.
Under that bill, the Government has allowed Maori to have absolute veto over coastal areas, right out to the territorial limit, where ancestral connection is established.
Our kohanga reo, whare wananga, iwi radio, and Maori television have been adopted all around the indigenous world as the model for language retention and revitalization.
Considerably more Maori students are on programmes run by private training education institutions, polytechnics, and whare wananga than at the seven universities.
Can the minister confirm that in the past five years the number of Maori participating in tertiary education doubled in the courses delivered by whare wananga?
Thus a Channel 7 advertisement in July 1996 featured images of the second world war, video footage of a New Zealand volcano erupting, and images of a Maori haka or war dance.
If he wanted to make his speech in order, he should have addressed his remarks to you, then said that the remarks he was making to you would be of interest to Maori.
He spoke fluent Maori and often lapsed into the language in his writing.
The issue with regard to whangai is very important to Maori.
Maori people, with great anxiety, a huge amount of consultation, and a great degree of angst, thought very carefully about the process of whangai.
Any comparison of New Zealand and Cook Islands Maori needs to at least allude to these different resources.
The Maori heritage garden grows old varieties of vegetables, kumara, hue, taro, rewai, maize, and kamokamo.
He juxtaposes Native American, Hawai'ian, and Maori intellectual and aesthetic concepts.
Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings.
He was then treated to the ceremonial welcome on the lawn in front of Government House which included a Maori greeting, known as a powhiri.
Six students were Samoan, two Maori, two Cook Island Maori, two Niuean, one Fijian, one Tokelauan and one was Chinese.
Maori were encouraged to develop awareness and understanding of wairua and other spiritual concepts.
The Magpies were greeted by a traditional Maori Powhiri ceremonial welcome ahead of the first game of their tour at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
The Quit for Good study offered Maori nursing students and their whanau buddies a scholarship, as an incentive to quit smoking.

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