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  2. Māori culture - Wikipedia

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    Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]

  3. Māori people - Wikipedia

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    The New Zealand national rugby union team and many other New Zealand sports people perform a haka, a traditional Māori challenge, before events. [ 158 ] [ 159 ] Kī-o-rahi and Tapawai are two ball sports of Māori origin.

  4. Māori mythology - Wikipedia

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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 tales of supernatural events relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pre-European Māori, often involving gods and demigods.

  5. Why New Zealand’s Maori are fighting to save an 1840 treaty ...

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    An umbrella group comprising at least 80 Maori tribes has sent an open letter to King Charles III demanding that he intervene in New Zealand politics and ensure the government honours its ...

  6. Culture of New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.The country's earliest inhabitants brought with them customs and language from Polynesia, and during the centuries of isolation, developed their own Māori and Moriori cultures.

  7. Māori history - Wikipedia

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    Measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, whooping cough and almost everything, except plague and sleeping sickness, have taken their toll of Maori dead". [63] A korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book was written by missionary Thomas Kendall in 1815, and is the first book written in the Māori language.

  8. FACT CHECK: Was A Vote In New Zealand Parliament ... - AOL

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    This frame grab taken from a New Zealand Parliament TV feed dated November 14, 2024 and released via AFPTV on November 15 shows Maori lawmakers performing the Haka, a traditional ceremonial dance ...

  9. Religion of Māori people - Wikipedia

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    Māori followed certain practices that relate to traditional concepts like tapu.Certain people and objects contain mana – spiritual power or essence. In earlier times, tribal members of a higher rank would not touch objects which belonged to members of a lower rank – to do so would constitute "pollution"; and persons of a lower rank could not touch the belongings of a highborn person ...