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tāngata whenua: native people of a country or region, i.e. the Māori in New Zealand (literally 'people of the land') [12] tapu: sacred, taboo; to be avoided because of this; (a cognate of the Tongan tabu, origin of the English borrowing of taboo) tangi: to mourn; or, a funeral at a marae; taniwha: mythical water monster
Māori Americans are Americans of Māori descent, an ethnic group from New Zealand. Some Māori are Mormons and are drawn to Mormon regions of Hawaii and Utah, as well as in California, Arizona and Nevada. [2] Māori were part of the first Mormon Polynesian colony of the US, which was founded in Utah in 1889. [3]
"Abo", "Coon", "Gin" and "Boong" or "Boonga" are all considered offensive and unacceptable in formal conversation when describing Aboriginal Australians, and are similar to the use of the N-word in the USA describing African Americans. You may hear slang terms for indigenous Australians sometimes being used in casual conversations, but only ...
There were 887,493 people identifying as being part of the Māori ethnic group at the 2023 New Zealand census, making up 17.8% of New Zealand's population. [114] This is an increase of 111,657 people (14.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 288,891 people (48.3%) since the 2006 census.
The exact timeframe in which the word Hori morphed from a simple transliteration into a universal racial slur towards Māori people is unspecified. Nonetheless, it is known that during the period of mass Māori urbanisation between 1950 and 1980, the usage and range of offensive and prejudiced Pākehā identifiers expanded.
Patupaiarehe are supernatural beings (he iwi atua) in Māori mythology that are described as pale to fair skinned with blonde hair or red hair, usually having the same stature as ordinary people, and never tattooed. [1] They can draw mist to themselves, but tend to be nocturnal or active on misty or foggy days as direct sunlight can be fatal to ...
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 ...
Te Maori (or sometimes Te Māori in modern sources) was a landmark exhibition of Māori art (taonga [Note 1]) that toured the United States from 1984 to 1986, and Aotearoa New Zealand from 1986 to 1987 as Te Maori: Te Hokinga Mai ('the return home'). [1]