Add to ORKGStories of first explorations and the naming of landmarks, boundaries and resources by a renowned tipuna (ancestor) feature in most Māori pūrākau (oral traditions). The first explorer sets out captaining their great waka (ocean-going canoe), fighting battles with monsters or other explorers, enduring hardship to traverse the land and discover, name or create geographical features on their journey. In this way, the intrepid pioneer declares and defines the boundaries of the takiwā (area of responsibility) of their iwi (tribe), metaphorically throwing a korowai (cloak) of their mana (prestige or honour) and responsibility over the new whenua (land), embedding their nomenclature, collective tribal mauri (spirituality), traditions and whakapapa...
The food resources available to the pre-European Maori were both scanty and scattered, and each hapu...
This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial p...
“Ko Taranaki toku Maunga; My mountain is Taranaki”; Indicates that I descend from the shared ancest...
The Waikato river is regarded as the ancestor of the Waikato people and an instrinsic element of the...
This thesis researched the oral transmission of mātauranga Māori from one generation to another with...
The mountain peaks, snow-fed lakes and rugged coastlines of the South Island are renowned throughout...
Prior to the arrival of Pakehā to the shores of Aotearoa, Māori retained and transmitted their histo...
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names...
For takata whenua, landscapes tell the stories of our whakapapa and experiences as whānau, hapū, and...
Language is the key to understanding Ko te reo te taikura o te whakaao-mārama In this thesis I inv...
Combining the history of ideas with the ethnohistory of encounters and an original method, this pape...
Māuranga Māori [Māori knowledge] Before the arrival of the European settlers, Māori society was gove...
The various names of the peaks of the mountain and the legends concerning it reflected a violent pas...
Ngai Tahu Whanui claims most of the South Island as its takiwa (territory) and is one of the largest...
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names...
The food resources available to the pre-European Maori were both scanty and scattered, and each hapu...
This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial p...
“Ko Taranaki toku Maunga; My mountain is Taranaki”; Indicates that I descend from the shared ancest...
The Waikato river is regarded as the ancestor of the Waikato people and an instrinsic element of the...
This thesis researched the oral transmission of mātauranga Māori from one generation to another with...
The mountain peaks, snow-fed lakes and rugged coastlines of the South Island are renowned throughout...
Prior to the arrival of Pakehā to the shores of Aotearoa, Māori retained and transmitted their histo...
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names...
For takata whenua, landscapes tell the stories of our whakapapa and experiences as whānau, hapū, and...
Language is the key to understanding Ko te reo te taikura o te whakaao-mārama In this thesis I inv...
Combining the history of ideas with the ethnohistory of encounters and an original method, this pape...
Māuranga Māori [Māori knowledge] Before the arrival of the European settlers, Māori society was gove...
The various names of the peaks of the mountain and the legends concerning it reflected a violent pas...
Ngai Tahu Whanui claims most of the South Island as its takiwa (territory) and is one of the largest...
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names...
The food resources available to the pre-European Maori were both scanty and scattered, and each hapu...
This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial p...
“Ko Taranaki toku Maunga; My mountain is Taranaki”; Indicates that I descend from the shared ancest...