Who are the San Bushmen? What are the Lakota rites of passage? What is a skinwalker in Navajo? What Polynesian island uses fire twirling in its traditional dance? What is the difference between Hawaiian and Samoan languages? What are some Indigenous peoples' traditions?
What were the Cheyenne tribe traditions? What did the Crow tribe wear in winter? What are Navajo baskets made of? What does the Navajo flag represent? What were some traditional dances of the Cheyenne Indian tribe? What did the Lakota Sioux eat?
Who is the Earth Mother Maori? Papatūānuku– mother earth In Māori tradition, Papatūānuku is the land. She is a mother earth figure who gives birth to all things, including people. Trees, birds and people are born from the land, which then nourishes them. Some traditions say that th...
C.The Maoris touch their cheeks and foreheads to greet each other. D.Americans like to share their breath with their guests. 3 What are people supposed to do when they greet? How do you greet your friends or visitors? In most countries, people shake hands when they meet. But some are...
folks wandered all the way across Alaska to South America. Some of us even got gutsy enough to take a raft across the ocean, resulting in relatively historically isolated and genetically distinct populations such as indigenous Aboriginals in Australia, Torres Strait Islanders, Maori, and Indonesians...
Midwives are autonomous practitioners who have the skills and abilities to provide primary maternity care for women on their own responsibility (New ZealandCollege of Midwives, 2018). The Scope of Practice is a guideline, published in 2010 (Midwifery Council of New Zealand, n.d.), which states...
Polynesian dance encompasses Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Maori (New Zealand) and Hawaiian styles. It began as an accompaniment to the oral storytelling traditions of those islands, conveying the literal meaning of a tale. How did Kalākaua become king?
“Antipodean” suggests a yearning for the European metropole but newsflash: clusters of paintings in the living rooms and wharenui of Aotearoa are not derived from French Academy hangings. Similar presentations developed independently of each other, referring back to different traditions. Aotearoa is...
Many wisdom traditions and literature on racism or oppression tell us to be reticent in trying to “fix” this. For example, in theTao Te Ching, we find: If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest, ...
Hybridization can be fluid and organic, such that some migrants come to see themselves as “150%” humans. To use a Maori expression, hybrids can be nga tangata awarua,“people of two rivers.”[55] While such hybridization does change the migrant, she arguably becomes more, not less.[56...