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The history of traditional Māori scientific advancements is taught at a tertiary level at Victoria University of Wellington [37] and Canterbury University. [ 38 ] Under colonisation Māori people, and women in particular, were treated as subjects rather than as creators of scientific knowledge, a treatment which continues to affect the ...
Measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, whooping cough and almost everything, except plague and sleeping sickness, have taken their toll of Maori dead". [ 63 ] A korao no New Zealand; or, the New Zealander's first book was written by missionary Thomas Kendall in 1815, and is the first book written in the Māori language.
Māori also fought during both World Wars in specialised battalions (the Māori Pioneer Battalion in WWI and the 28th (Māori) Battalion in WWII). Māori were also badly hit by the 1918 influenza epidemic , with death rates for Māori being five to seven times higher than for Pākehā.
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 ...
Those that stayed behind settled and intermixed with previously established Māori tribes in the region. People from Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Te Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and the Tauranga Moana tribes can trace their origins to this settlement. Three members of the crew feature in Bay of Plenty genealogies: Toroa, Tāneatua and Muriwai ...
English: This is handwritten Māori Dictionary, by William John Warburton Hamilton, containing lists of words in Māori and their English translations. The document is 41 pages long. The document is 41 pages long.
a parrot, the world's only alpine parrot kererū the native wood pigeon kina the sea-urchin, eaten as a delicacy kiwi the bird, a New Zealander, or (but not in New Zealand English) kiwifruit kōkako a rare type of bird kōwhai a type of flowering tree kūmara sweet potato mako a shark, considered a magnificent fighting game fish mamaku a type ...
Tauranga Moana are a grouping of Māori iwi (tribe) based in and around the Tauranga Harbour and Bay of Plenty. The grouping consists of Waitaha-a-Hei, [1] Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāi Te Rangi and its hapū Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore. [2] [3] They trace their origins back to the Mataatua waka.