Māori

925 A.D, all Maori people like my ancestor, Kupe, came from Hawaiki. As a talented fisherman, Kupe found out that the great octopus had been stealing all his fish and bait whenever he was fishing. Annoyed, Kupe tried to kill it, but all the chasing had come to a named island, by his wife, called Aotearoa (the long white cloud). After destroying the octopus, Kupe and his whanau explored Aotearoa, came back to his homeland to tell all his mates, and then returned to Aotearoa to emigrate there with all his Maori friends. This inquiry will help me to look at two push factors and two pull factors that may have affected my ancestor and all the Maori people who came with him to emigrate to another island at the bottom of the South Pacific. Push factor 1: One of the huge problems in Hawaiki is that there was an overpopulation. Too many people can end up in a riot causing wars and even overcrowding. Dangerous war had happened all around the island. Mostly civil wars. Overcrowding can send people away to emigrate elsewhere with their family to a larger home. And we all know that all Maori people came from Hawaiki, that must mean that all ninety-eight tribes had came from there. This is proof that overcrowding and war had happened in Hawaiki, and can make a huge affection to influence all Maori people leave the island.…

Verse 1: Back in 1988 All those talking politicians Words are easy, words are cheap Much cheaper than our priceless land But promises can disappear Just like writing in the sand. Verse 2: This land was never given up This land was never bought and sold The planting of the Union Jack Never changed our law at all. However, “Treaty” as James Jun Wu has suggested, did its part to mitigate the local and national tensions by offering a way of reconciliation (101). It explores the possibility of…

place. People are connected to their ancestors through their culture. They celebrate these commonalities through traditional practices and conversation. It is culture that creates uniqueness between nations and pride within. National languages are the vessels which transport tales between generations in their purest forms; this ability is a cherished aspect of a common national identity and a valued component of historical societal evolution. Dr. Michael Gavin articulated this nicely when…

In the film Whale Rider the director Niki Caro shows how the cultural traditions can unite its people and create a sense of unity between the Maori people. The Maori people are a native culture that have been home to New Zealand for over three thousand years. They have a story that has been passed down generation after generation which is the story of Paikea. Paikea was a ancestor that left his homeland Hawaiki on the back of a whale. The filmmaker uses camera, sound and lighting techniques to…

These historical events include colonization and migration (Glover, 2005). Over 200 years ago the British colonized NZ and settlers brought with them tobacco and introduced it as a means of manipulating and controlling the Maori people (Glover, 2005). As British settlers confiscated the land, the Maori people lost their primary source of income therefore causing them to turn calming effects such as smoking. Over time tobacco became a source of stress relief and thus a behavioural norm amongst…

The Māori worldview is holistic and cyclic, and refers to the core ideas and beliefs which govern the way in which Māori perceive and interact with the world around them (Newman, 2016). A key aspect of this view is determined by the many different cultural concepts. Māori cultural concepts all originate from the creation narratives, stories of atua (gods), and are not isolated, but are related to one another (Carter, 2016). Understanding these concepts gives a greater depth of understanding of…

New Zealand/Aotearoa smoking contributes to over 5,000 preventable deaths per year (Maori affairs committee 2010). To combat the high number of preventable deaths the New Zealand/ Aotearoa government has chosen to put into action different initiatives and programs to deal with the high number of smokers (Maori affairs committee 2010). The different initiatives and programs that the government implemented can be directly linked back to Foucault governmentality theory (Krasmann 2015). For…

government, to get the Maori approval of the terms within the treaty. Considering Hobson’s responsibility he would have done everything he could in his power to get the Maori to sign the treaty, even if that meant telling them the fabricated version of the treaty. There was, without a doubt a mass amount of pressure on missionaries to get Maori to sign the treaty. Less than a month prior to the signing of the treaty in Waitangi, on January 10 [1840] Henry Williams received a letter from the…

inequities in type II diabetes between Māori and non-Māori. It is evident that disparities such as quality of care and access to care can be linked to the three breaches in articles under the Māori version of the ToW. To demonstrate the inequities in diabetes the 1852 New Zealand Constitution Act, 1907 The Tohunga Suppression Act, Orewa Speech and an overview of the treaty breaches will be used to create a causal link using the Williams model as a guide. The Nursing Council of New Zealand guide…

During the film whale rider, we see the characters, Paka and Pai. Paka, growing up the way he did, follows every rule that their tradition has, whereas Pai, being born into the modern world, wants the Maori people to think more progressively. During childbirth, Pai’s mother dies, along with Pai’s twin brother, who was in line for the role of the chief. This is enough change for Paka as he decides that Pai cannot fulfil the role. At first, Paka is just blind to Pai’s ability to be the chief, he…