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New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, uses Kia Ora as the name for its inflight magazine. [9] [2] Water Safety New Zealand, a water-safety advocacy organisation, has a specific Māori water safety programme, Kia Maanu Kia Ora, which makes use of the literal meaning of kia ora, as their message translates as stay afloat; stay alive.
traditional Māori dance, not always a war dance, often performed by New Zealand sports teams to 'challenge' opponents; see Haka of the All Blacks hāngī (1) earth oven used to cook large quantities of food (2) the food cooked in the hāngī hapū clan or subtribe, part of an iwi hīkoi march or walk, especially a symbolic walk such as a ...
Te Kāea ("The Leader", or Te Kaea News as written on television guides) was a nightly New Zealand television news show that aired on Whakaata Māori at 6:30pm. It was repeated at 10:30pm, and had English subtitles.
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (English: Māori Language Week) is a government-sponsored initiative intended to encourage New Zealanders to promote the use of the Māori language which is an official language of the country.
Similarly, the Māori word ending -tanga, which has a similar meaning to the English ending -ness, is occasionally used in terms such as kiwitanga (that is, the state of being a New Zealander [8]). English words intimately associated with New Zealand are often of Māori origin, such as haka , [ 9 ] Pākehā , [ 10 ] Aotearoa , [ 11 ] kiwi ...
A haka performed by the national rugby union team before a game New Zealand Māori rugby league team vs Aboriginal Dreamtime match at 2008 Rugby League world cup. The New Zealand national rugby union team and many other New Zealand sports people perform a haka, a traditional Māori challenge, before events. [158] [159]
The taonga (trophies) are awarded to the teams with the highest score in the seven compulsory (aggregate) and non-compulsory (non-aggregate) disciplines from the pool rounds. The toa whakaihuwaka (overall winner) taonga is awarded to the team with the highest scores from the final day (Te Matangirua) and also determines first second and third ...
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]