But for the Irish, there are so many well-known Irish blessings that are spoken to others without needing a special occasion. So, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we've rounded up the 140 best ...
Hosted at Te Paepae - the cultural heartbeat of the festival - groups of about 20 at a time are being encouraged to connect with te ao Māori through games and drills.
Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of ...
We know that similar discussions of words for which there is no equivalent in Māori occurred at Waitangi. Salmond disparages Henry Williams, who translated the Treaty, but we have his letter to Bishop ...
Abbie and Adam looked very much in love as they kissed in front of the iconic Toku Toru Tapu Maori Church, which was built in 1936. The pictures appear to be from December, when she joined her ...
UNDP Operations Manager, Racquel Ellis delivers Greetings on behalf of Kishan Khoday, UNDP Resident Representative. I am delighted to bring greetings on behalf of United Nations Development Programme ...
Dear Editor, Thanks to Tuma Mataiti (October 27) for his explanation of the correct way (according to him), to pronounce, or write, that famous modern Maori greeting, “kia ora ana (na),” but he is ...
Never fear, though—many English terms, from astronomy to mathematics, are derived from Greek, and you may find your footing in familiar root words ... this as a standard greeting up until ...
The Women's World Cup opened Thursday with an elaborate greeting from the Maori people of New Zealand and the First Nations people of Australia. In a moment intended by FIFA to stress the cultural ...
The Maori stand more on ceremony, with traditional protocols of meeting, greeting and sending off still given priority over more casual routines, particularly at business meetings with tribal groups.