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Whakaata Māori is a New Zealand television channel that broadcasts programmes that make a significant contribution to the revitalisation of the Māori language and culture. [1] Funded by the New Zealand Government , it commenced broadcasting as Māori Television on 28 March 2004 from its studios in Newmarket, Auckland .
It was repeated at 10:30pm, and had English subtitles. Te Kāea was also shown in Australia starting 17 March 2013, [1] [2] helped by Whakaata Māori's "strong collaborative relationship" with Australia's NITV as members of the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN) [1] [3] and Australia's Māori population of 140,000 at the time.
The Māori Television Service (abbr. MTS; Māori: Te Aratuku Whakāta Irirangi Māori [1]) is a state sector organisation in New Zealand that was established on 7 May 2003 under the Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Act 2003 [2] to replace the Te Reo Māori Television Trust (Te Awhiorangi).
The iwi describes the name Rongowhataata in the book that accompanies their Iwi-in-Residence exhibition at New Zealand's national museum Te Papa Tongarewa (2017-2020). "It combines 'rongo', to open the senses, with 'whakaata' to show or reflect - describing the transition of thought to form: the elements of creation."
The name Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu translates roughly as "the summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau (flute) to his loved one".
Tuaiti murdered his brother-in-law Te Rironga, so Moeahu and his son-in-law Rongo-whakaata attacked Rurutawhao and killed Tuaiti. The elderly Kahungunu went to Wairoa and got Wekanui to lead a war party to get revenge on Rongo-whakaata. At the Battle of Kai-whakareireia, Wekanui was victorious and captured a noblewoman named Pou-wharekura (a ...
Kahukuranui was the son of Kahungunu and Rongomaiwahine.He was born at Nukutaurua on Mahia Peninsula and was the only one of their children to receive a whare-kōhanga ("nest house"), a building specially erected for the mother to give birth in. [2] Through his father, he was a direct descendant of Tamatea Arikinui, captain of the Tākitimu canoe. [3]
The full name of the harbour is Te Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe; "the place of Kupe's great return". [ 6 ] Hei konei rā, e Te Puna-o-te-ao-mārama, ka hokianga nui ake nei tēnei, e kore anō e hokianga nui mai.