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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.
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.
Māori also fought during both World Wars in specialised battalions (the Māori Pioneer Battalion in WWI and the 28th (Māori) Battalion in WWII). Māori were also badly hit by the 1918 influenza epidemic , with death rates for Māori being five to seven times higher than for Pākehā.
[50] [51]: pp 4-25 The 'understand' component centres around four big ideas: Māori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand; colonisation and settlement have been central to Aotearoa New Zealand's histories for the past 200 years; the course of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories has been shaped by the use of ...
Commemorates and lists the names of 91 soldiers who died in the First World War. [30] [31] Foresters’ Hall Category 2 155-159 Seventeenth Avenue, Tauranga Central: 1908 1987 4566 Built in 1908 as the meeting hall of the Ancient Order of Foresters. It fell under borough council ownership in 1932, and was used by St John Ambulance and a local ...
Scholars of Māori legal history view tikanga as having once been the law of the land. [5] [2] [6] Lawyers view contemporary tikanga Māori through the lens of customary law, which comes from an authority rather than a normative system. [3] This is being tested in the New Zealand judicial system through a few legal cases.
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.
Te Ao Mārama is a concept of the world in Māori culture. Te Ao Mārama, also known as Te Ao Tūroa ("The Long-Standing World"), [1] refers to the physical plane of existence that is inhabited by people, and is associated with knowledge and understanding. The phrase is variously translated as "The World of Light", "the World of Understanding ...