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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.
Tauranga Bond Store Category 1 1 The Strand and Anson Street, Tauranga Central: 1883 2008 7738 Built in 1883 as a warehouse and bond store, the building was owned by wholesale wine and spirits importers from 1908 to 1987, and has since seen various business tenants. It is the oldest remaining commercial building in Tauranga. [12] Kairua Wāhi ...
Māori oral history describes the arrival of ancestors in a number of large ocean-going waka, from Hawaiki. Hawaiki is the spiritual homeland of many eastern Polynesian societies and is widely considered to be mythical.
Tauranga Hospital is a public secondary regional hospital located in Tauranga South, with 360 beds including neonatal, geriatric, surgical, maternity and mental health care. [61] It provides elective and emergency healthcare across medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric, gynaecological and psychiatric services.
In Tauranga traditions, Ranginui was the son of Tamatea-pokai-whenua [4] from the Takitimu [5] canoe. Ranginui was the brother of Kahungunu (the founding ancestor of Ngāti Kahungunu ) and Whaene. His brothers eventually moved to other regions of the North Island , while he remained in Tauranga, settling along the Wairoa River .
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]
View over Greater Tauranga, taken from the top of Mount Maunganui. Thousands of Māori placenames (with or without anglicisation) are now official in New Zealand. These include: Territorial authorities: Waikato, Manawatū, Tauranga, Taranaki, Otago [5] Cities: Porirua, Rotorua, Tauranga, Timaru, Whanganui, Whangārei
The official definition of Māori for electoral purposes has changed over time. Before 1974, the government required documented ancestry to determine the status of "a Māori person" and only those with at least 50% Māori ancestry were allowed to choose which seats they wished to vote in.