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The Te Aho Matua amendment made it a requirement that kura kaupapa Māori adhere to the principles of Te Aho Matua. The amendment recognised Te Runanga Nui o nga Kura Kaupapa Māori as the kaitiaki (guardians, caretakers and architects), the most suitable body responsible for determining the content of Te Aho Matua, and for ensuring that it is ...
Mataaho (also known as Mataaoho [1] and Mataoho [2]) is a Māori deity. Variously considered a god of earthquakes and eruptions, the guardian of the earth's secrets, [3] the god of volcanic forces, [4] or a giant, [5] Mataaho is associated with many of the volcanic features in the Tāmaki Makaurau Region (Auckland Region).
[28] [29] Today, the term is still occasionally used to mean nobleman, but has mostly been adapted to other uses. In Filipino martial arts, it is equivalent to the black belt rank. [30] Beauty contests in the Philippines have taken to referring to the winner as lakambini, the female equivalent of lakan.
Whāngai adoption, often referred to simply as whāngai (literally, "to nourish"), is a traditional method of open adoption among the Māori people of New Zealand.. Whāngai is a community process rather than a legal process, [1] and usually involves a child being brought up by a close relative, either because his or her parents have died or because they are unable to look after the child.
For example, Wahakaotirangi's innovations in agriculture ensured the formation and survival of the Tainui people. This influence persists, and is seen in such cases as the New Zealand Department of Conservation ’s Biodiversity Strategy, which states that by 2020, “traditional Māori knowledge, or mātauranga Māori, about biodiversity is ...
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 ...
For example, the terms 'iwi', 'hapu', and 'whānau' (as noted above) can also be translated in order as 'bones', 'pregnant', and 'give birth'. The prize winning Māori author, Keri Hulme , named her best known novel as The Bone People : a title linked directly to the dual meaning of the word 'iwi as both 'bone' and 'tribal people'.
A typical pepeha may take the following form. This pepeha is for a person called Tīpene, from the Kāi Tahu iwi and living in Dunedin (Ōtepoti): [2] Tēnā koutou katoa (greetings to all of you) Ko Kirimoko te māunga (my mountain is Kirimoko) Ko Waitati te awa (my river is the Waitati) Ko Tākitimu te waka (my ancestral canoe is the Tākitimu)