Te Ara: Today's Features http://www.teara.govt.nz Featured stories and media from Te Ara | The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, a comprehensive guide to the country's peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society. en Don’t miss... Taputini kūmara http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/nga-tupu-mai-i-hawaiki-plants-from-polynesia/1/1

This taputini kūmara is one of four varieties that may date from before European arrival in New Zealand – the others are rekamaroa, hutihuti and houhere.....

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]]> <![CDATA[Ngā tupu mai i Hawaiki – plants from Polynesia]]> http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/nga-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...

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]]> <![CDATA[Ngā umanga – Māori business enterprise]]> http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/nga-umanga-maori-business-enterprise

Alienation of tribal land limited the economic opportunities for Māori tribes, but restoration of some tribal assets and a renaissance of Māori...

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]]> <![CDATA[Te ohanga onamata a rohe – economic regions]]> http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/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...

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]]> <![CDATA[Te mahi kai – food production economics]]> http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/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...

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]]> <![CDATA[Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city]]> http://teara.colo.onesquared.net/en/nga-taone-nui-maori-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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