When I was fourteen, my family moved to Hawkes Bay on the North Island. Here the question of race was not so remote. The Maori population in and around the twin cities of Napier and Hastings numbered several thousand. Oddly, this had very little effect on the community’s self-image. We...
New Zealand's Maori have a new sovereign, 27-year-old Queen Nga Wai Hono i te Po, who ascended to the throne after accompanying her father and the late king to his final resting place. Thousands of people flocked to the North Island town of Ngaruawahia t...
The fish became the North Island and Maui's canoe became the South Islan d.3 The Maori people make beautiful woodcarvings. They also make bone and stone jewelry. The men sometimes have tattoos on their faces. These tattoos have special meaning. They give information about a man's family....
('pounamu' is the Maori word for jade or greenstone), basalt weapon (eg patu), wooden weapon (eg taiaha), bone weapon (eg whalebone taiaha), cache of edible fern-root, kahukiwi (kiwi-feather cloak) bird- snaring tools, huia feathers (treasured and rare, used for headdresses), raw...
different geographic regions, which suggests previously unknown trading relationships between the various tribes in those areas. It also showed that one region in particular; the east end of the north island, had the most prolific cloak producers, as they accounted for nearly half of those studied...
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tribes for the benefit of all. On February 6, forty-six Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi. The British then went elsewhere in New Zealand to collect signatures, including sparsely populated South Island. Some chiefs refused. But by May 21 the British had more than a hundred ...
New Zealand English is the variety of English that is spoken by the roughly 4 million inhabitants of New Zealand – a South Pacific state which consists of two main islands simply called the North and the South Island. New Zealand is a bicultural country with both English and Māori being it...
A North Island road project was changed to avoid destroying the nature.4. The underlined word “altered” meansin English in the passage.A.changedB. madeC. put offD. gave up5. Which is the best tile for the passage?A. New Zealand Culture B. Maori CultureC. Maoris's BeliefsD. A ...
The program of science is to formulate theories that explain observed natural phenomena. In this effort, we don’t need to use the terms ‘truth’ or ‘absolute reality’ because we only look for agreement with observations. As was said above, the word...