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"Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi", or "Tūtira Mai", is a New Zealand Māori folk song (or waiata) written in the 1950s by Canon Wiremu Te Tau Huata. The song became popular after being selected by New Zealand's Ministry of Education for inclusion in schoolbooks.
tamariki: children; tohunga: priest (in Māori use, an expert or highly skilled person) tūrangawaewae: one's own turf, "a place to stand" tutū: to be rebellious, stirred up, mischievous [18] Used in New Zealand English to mean "fidget" or "fiddle" e.g. "Don't tutū with that!" urupā: burial ground; utu: revenge (in Māori, payment, response ...
Tūhoe people also bear the sobriquet Nga Tamariki o te Kohu ('the children of the mist'). Tūhoe traditional land is at Te Urewera (the former Te Urewera National Park) in the eastern North Island, a steep, heavily forested area which includes Lake Waikaremoana. Tūhoe traditionally relied on the forest for their needs.
Ranginui first married Poharua Te Po where they bore 3 offspring including Aorangi (or Aoraki as given in South Island). [3] He later married Papatūānuku together becoming the primordial sky father and earth mother bearing over 500 children of male and female including Tāwhirimātea, Tāne and Tangaroa.
Collection of waiata (songs), whakapapa (genealogies), and kōrero tawhito (history) Te Puea Hērangi CBE (9 November 1883 – 12 October 1952), known by the name Princess Te Puea , was a Māori leader from New Zealand's Waikato region.
Cultural performance of waiata (song), haka (dance), tauparapara (chants) and mōteatea (poetry) are used by Māori to express and pass on knowledge and understanding about history, communities, and relationships. [133] Kapa haka is a Māori performance art [134] believed to have originated with the legendary figure Tinirau.
In some legends Tama-nui-te-rā is the husband of Ārohirohi, goddess of mirages.In other legends, Tama-nui-te-rā had two wives, the Summer maid, Hineraumati, and the Winter maid, Hinetakurua.
By failing to set up and run the primary health system in a way that reduced the gap between Maori and non-Maori health outcomes. [11] In 2021, Moxon called for the elimination of state care of children (tamariki) for not upholding Māori self-determination (tino rangatiratanga) over their families . She has said the Crown should consider ...