Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia
When the ancestors of Māori crossed the ocean to New Zealand, they brought plants from Polynesia to cultivate in their new home...
Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise
Alienation of tribal land limited the economic opportunities for Māori tribes, but restoration of some tribal assets and a renaissance of Māori...
Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions
As moa and seals became depleted in New Zealand, Māori sought new foods. Of the plants and animals they brought with them kūmara...
Te mahi kai – food production economics
Māori food production was based around kāinga (villages) and followed a yearly calendar. The products of horticulture, fishing, eeling, fowling...
Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
As soon as they got the chance, many Māori travelled by sailing ships and explored European life and technologies in Sydney and England...
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01 August 1987
Maori becomes official language
The Maori Language Act came into force, meaning that te reo Maori could now be used in... Read more
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Taputini kūmara
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The mathematics of poetry
30/07/2010 - Kerryn Pollock
National Poetry Day has rolled around once again, and to mark this day I decided to undertake a brief statistical analysis of the poems... Read more
