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The future of rongoa Maori: wellbeing and sustainability. Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd & The Ministry of Health. O'Connor T (2007). "New Zealand's biculturalism and the development of publicly funded rongoa (traditional Maori healing) services". Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 4 (1): 70– 94.
The Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 was an Act of the New Zealand Parliament aimed at replacing tohunga as traditional Māori healers with western medicine.. It was introduced by James Carroll who expressed impatience with what he considered regressive Māori attitudes, as he was worried those attitudes would isolate Māori. [1]
Mātauranga was traditionally preserved through spoken language, including songs, supplemented carving weaving, and painting, including tattoos. [10] Since colonisation, mātauranga has been preserved and shared through writing, first by non-Māori anthropologists and missionaries, then by Māori.
In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. [1] ...
In Māori mythology, Rongo or Rongo-mā-Tāne (also Rongo-hīrea, Rongo-marae-roa, [1] and Rongo-marae-roa-a-Rangi [2]) is a major god of cultivated plants, especially kumara (spelled kūmara in Māori), a vital crop.
The formation of the Maori Warden system after 1945 was in response to government and community concerns that Maori could not handle alcohol responsibly. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Māori Social and Economic Advancement Act 1945 gave Maori Wardens "powers of preventing drunkenness and of otherwise controlling the consumption of alcoholic liquor among ...
Traditionally supplejack was used by Māori to bind and pull objects. For example, the vine was used to tie firewood together and for towing small canoes. Medicinally the supplejack root was boiled to make a drink to help a variety of conditions including rheumatism, fever, disability, bowel problems and skin diseases. [10]
1965 Dominion Conference. The Māori Women’s Welfare League or Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora is a New Zealand welfare organisation focusing on Māori women and children.