Cook Islands Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language that is the official language of the Cook Islands.Cook Islands Māori is closely related to New Zealand Māori, but is a distinct language in its own right.Cook Islands Māori is simply called Māori when there is no need to disambiguate it from New Zealand Māori, but it is also known as Māori Kūki ʻĀirani (or Maori Kuki Airani) or ...

Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori). The many island cultures within the Polynesian …

Māori Television was launched on 28 March 2004 and attracted 300,000 viewers in its second month of operation. The main channel attracts 1.5 million viewers each month, including half of all Māori aged five or more, and one-third of all New Zealanders. Te Reo, a second channel from Māori Television, was launched on 28 March 2008.In contrast with the main channel, it is ad …

Since the early 1900s the theory that Polynesians (who became the Māori) were the first ethnic group to settle in New Zealand (first proposed by Captain James Cook) has been dominant among archaeologists and anthropologists. Before that time and until the 1920s, however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands …

Many Māori words or phrases that describe Māori culture have become assimilated into English or are used as foreign words, particularly in New Zealand English, and might be used in general (non-Māori) contexts. Some of these are: Aotearoa: New Zealand.Popularly interpreted to mean 'land of the long white cloud', but the original derivation is uncertain

Les Maoris de Nouvelle-Zélande (en maori de Nouvelle-Zélande : māori, prononcer / m a ː o r i /) sont des populations polynésiennes autochtones de Nouvelle-Zélande.Ils s'y seraient installés par vagues successives à partir du VIII e siècle. Ils sont aujourd'hui plus de 875 000 [1], soit environ 17 % de la population néo-zélandaise, auxquels il faut ajouter une diaspora de plus de ...

Etymology. The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from …

This is an example of a family tree of the Māori gods showing the most important gods in Māori mythology. This family tree gives just an example - there are remarkable regional variations. Māori Goddesses are displayed in italics. The primordial gods were Ranginui and Papatūānuku, Heaven and Earth.

In Māori culture, Matariki is the name of the Pleiades star cluster and the celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. This marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar.Matariki was first celebrated as an official public holiday in New Zealand on 24 June 2022.. Historically Matariki was usually celebrated for a period of days during the last quarter …

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 also in places with large numbers of expatriate New Zealanders (such as London and Melbourne), the movement aims to increase the use of Māori in the home, in education, government, and business.The movement is part of a …