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  2. Rose Pere - Wikipedia

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    Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist. Of Māori descent, she affiliated with the iwi Ngāi Tūhoe , Ngāti Ruapani and Ngāti Kahungunu .

  3. Te Wheke-a-Muturangi - Wikipedia

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    In Māori mythology, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi is a monstrous octopus destroyed in Whekenui Bay, Tory Channel or at Patea by Kupe the navigator. The octopus was a pet or familiar of Muturangi, a powerful tohunga of Hawaiki. The wheke was nonetheless a wild creature and a guardian. When Kupe reached New Zealand, he encountered the beast off Castlepoint.

  4. Hauora - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a whare, named with domains of Hauora.. Hauora is a Māori philosophy of health and well-being unique to New Zealand. [1]It helps schools be educated and prepared for what students are about to face in life.

  5. Te Aka Whai Ora - Wikipedia

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    Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority) is a statutory entity responsible for ensuring that the New Zealand health system meets the needs of Māori. It will work in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand to achieve the following stated goals:

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

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    The report argued that the bill would limit Maori rights, undermine Crown obligations, hinder Maori access to justice, erode social cohesion and diminish the constitutional status of the treaty.

  7. Muturangi - Wikipedia

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    In Māori mythology, Muturangi, also known as Ruamuturangi, was a renowned high priest presiding over Taputapuatea marae at Rangiatea in French Polynesia.. The son of Ohomairangi, Muturangi was an accomplished navigator who started the tradition of the High Priest at Taputapuatea.

  8. Cook Strait - Wikipedia

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    Kupe followed in his canoe a monstrous octopus called Te Wheke-a-Muturangi across Cook Strait and destroyed it in Tory Channel or at Pātea. When Dutch explorer Abel Tasman first saw New Zealand in 1642, he thought Cook Strait was a bight closed to the east. He named it Zeehaen's Bight, after the Zeehaen, one of the two ships in his expedition.

  9. Tory Channel - Wikipedia

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    The name Kura Te Au originates from the red colour of the sea caused by a variety of plankton and the high populations of crustacean krill. According to legend, Kura Te Au is where Kupe killed the giant, mythical octopus, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi, causing its blood to run through the channel, turning the water red.