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  2. Te Matatini - Wikipedia

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    Te Matatini celebrates the Māori culture, its beauty, and its core values. Kapa haka is a form of Māori identity and contributes to New Zealand being unique. The Te Matatini Society is the driving force behind Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival.

  3. Kapa haka - Wikipedia

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    There is a regular national kapa haka competition currently called Te Matatini that has been running since 1972. [1] A kapa haka performance involves choral singing, dance and movements associated with the hand-to-hand combat practised by Māori in mainly precolonial times, presented in a synchronisation of action, timing, posture, footwork and ...

  4. Haka - Wikipedia

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    The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...

  5. 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.

  6. Selwyn Parata - Wikipedia

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    Parata's influence extends into cultural advocacy through his role as chair of Te Matatini, New Zealand's premier kapa haka festival, since 2008. Under his guidance, Te Matatini has grown significantly, securing substantial government funding to support the development of kapa haka and Māori performing arts at all levels.

  7. Māoriness - Wikipedia

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    Māoriness has a multitude of dimensions, being expressed along many cultural axis points. The concept of Māoritanga, or Māori culture, such as in events like Te Matatini, [1] forms a significant part of the fabric of behaviours and habits that form a sense of Māoriness.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The biggest challenge, he knew, would be his own staff’s resistance. “It’s a real 12-step culture throughout our whole organization around the country,” he said. He spent all of 2012 planning to integrate maintenance medications into the program and working to win over staff, some of whom he found avoided treating heroin addicts at all.

  9. Māori people - Wikipedia

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    Since 1972, there has been a regular national kapa haka competition, the Te Matatini National Festival, organised by the Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts Society. There are kapa haka groups in schools, tertiary institutions, and workplaces, and it is performed at tourist venues across the country.