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In year two this comprised a two-day hui at a local Ngai Tahu marae attended by students and clinical staff.
Our first practicum for our marae course was to organise a hui, and my role was head chef.
That land was now considered a marae reserve, which it was hoping to develop into a papakainga.
The Powhiri is still performed at Maori meetings and visits of dignitaries to a marae.
It was a warm spring day as I sat on the paepae of my marae at Omarumutu, on an elevated platform looking out to sea.
I have also noticed some potential similarities between stone circles and marae.
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.
Included in the planning has been instigating hui on the kawa under which the marae will function.
It enabled the marae to extend its reservation in order to look after its flounder and oyster beds.
These marae are community focused and they provide a focal point for community action.
The group is essentially a kapa haka or performing-arts group associated with a marae in Wellington.
A 'karanga' is the call sent out by a woman who stands at the front of the marae calling the manuhiri onto the marae.
The marae welcomes both overnight visitors as well as those who come just for the concert and the hangi.
The town's community had recently imposed a rahui and banned patches on a local marae.
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.
I was raised on the marae, brought up alongside kaumatua and aunties and uncles.
Towards the west, the many marae in the so-called royal valleys bear witness to the island's significance in ancient times.
This stone church built in 1822 sits on the site of a marae, or ancient temple, that was originally dedicated to the Polynesian God Oro.
The new wharenui is a tribute to the kaumatua and people of the iwi who have worked so hard to establish it as a thriving and progressive marae once more.
Different marae have different kawa for speaking, including the order of speeches and whether all the hosts go first or they alternate with visitors.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The women were gathered in the marae and in the trenches, some armed, all filled with the fire of savage war.
I recognised at once the old priest of the marae, but how changed since I last saw him!
The people sat there on the marae, silently watching the burning of the dead.
They selected a body, and dragged it off to the cooking-place at the rear of the marae.
Bent found a large number of Maoris, about three hundred, assembled on the marae, the village parade ground.
At length a Maori unfastened the door of the whar, and, taking Bent by the hand, led him out on to the marae.
Titokowaru glared at his white man, then he went to the door of the council-house and called to the people in the marae to enter.
A council of the people was held on the marae, and the killing of Kane was narrated in minutest and barbaric detail.
That morning, after he had supplied the men with ammunition, he sat on the marae watching the war-dances.
Von Tempsky's body, the pakeha-Maori had observed while on the marae, had not been mutilated, except for that tomahawk cut.
I remember when I grew up at Hongoeka Bay Marae in Plimmerton that we always enjoyed our pork and puha boil ups, but I don't remember eating junk food.
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