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    The Māori King Movement, called the Kīngitanga in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central...
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  • The Māori protest movement is a broad indigenous rights movement in New Zealand (Aotearoa). While there was a range of conflicts between Māori and European...
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    Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia,...
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    The history of the Māori began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori), in a series of ocean migrations in canoes starting...
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    Māori culture (Māori: Māoritanga) is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. It originated from, and...
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  • term "King Country" dates from the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, when colonial forces invaded the Waikato and forces of the Māori King Movement withdrew...
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    New Zealand Wars (redirect from Māori Wars)
    allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. They were previously commonly referred to as the Land Wars or the Māori Wars...
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    are of Māori descent. The Māori electorates were introduced in 1867 under the Maori Representation Act. They were created in order to give Māori a more...
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    Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ), or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of...
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    Māori Australians (Māori: ngā tangata Māori i Ahitereiria) are Australians of Māori heritage. The Māori presence in Australia dates back to the 19th century...
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  • Iwi (redirect from Māori tribe)
    Iwi (Māori pronunciation: [ˈiwi]) are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori, iwi roughly means 'people' or 'nation', and is often...
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    isolated offshoot of Māori who settled the Chatham Islands around 1500 CE. List of Māori migration canoes Polynesian navigation Māori culture Whakapapa According...
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  • This is a list of Māori deities, known in Māori as atua. Haumiatiketike, the god of uncultivated food, particularly bracken fern. Papatūānuku, the primordial...
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    Tūrangawaewae (category Māori monarchs)
    for the Māori King Movement (Te Kīngitanga) and the official residence and reception centre of the head of the Kīngitanga, the current Māori King, Tūheitia...
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    the Ngāti Hauā Māori iwi in nineteenth century New Zealand, and is sometimes known as the kingmaker for his role in the Māori King Movement. Tarapipipi Te...
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  • Tikanga is a Māori concept incorporating practices and values from mātauranga Māori, Māori knowledge. Tikanga is translated into the English language...
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  • In New Zealand before the 1800s, Māori children would be called by one given name (simple or composite). These names were attributed to remarkable events...
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  • Te Pāti Māori (Māori pronunciation: [tɛ ˈpaːti ˈmaːori]), also known as the Māori Party, is a political party in New Zealand advocating Māori rights....
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  • The Māori language revival is a movement to promote, reinforce and strengthen the use of te reo Māori, the Māori language. Primarily in New Zealand, but...
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    Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern...
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  • Monarchies in Oceania (category Articles containing Māori-language text)
    claim in Antarctica). The Māori King Movement, called the Kīngitanga in Māori, is a movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand...
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    Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (category Māori monarchs)
    Wherowhero (died 25 June 1860) was a Māori warrior, leader of the Waikato iwi (confederation of tribes), the first Māori King and founder of the Te Wherowhero...
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  • (Māori King Movement). 1864: War in the Waikato ends with battle of Ōrākau. 1864: The Ohura Fight of 1864 - "This was probably the last purely Maori apart...
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  • Kingmaker (redirect from King Maker)
    House of Bernadotte (King of Sweden) Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester during The Anarchy Wiremu Tamihana in the Māori King Movement Hato Hasbún in El...
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  • Prince consort (redirect from King consort)
    Prince Henrik of Denmark Luxembourg: Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma Māori King Movement: Whatumoana Paki Majapahit: Cakradhara, husband of Queen Tribhuwana...
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    Māori religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and practices of the Māori, the Polynesian indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditional Māori...
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  • Aotearoa (category Pages with Māori IPA)
    Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is the Māori-language name for New Zealand. The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island...
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    1400 British troops defeated about 500 warriors of the Kingitanga (Māori King Movement), which was resisting the expansion of British settlement and colonial...
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  • Traditional Māori music, or pūoro Māori, is composed or performed by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music...
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    as it is used in the Māori version of the Treaty of Waitangi to express "full exclusive and undisturbed possession" over Māori-owned lands and property...
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