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4i - Māori geographical terms 4i

Activity Title:
Māori geographical terms.
Learning outcome(s):
 Demonstrate an understanding of Māori geographical terms. Curriculum Level:
Level 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Key words:
Curriculum Links:
Māori; takotoranga papa Social Science
Achievement objective
8.2 Understand how
Materials: people’s diverse values
 Copies of Māori geographical term matching cards and perceptions influence
the environment, social and
economic decisions and
Approximate time required: responses that they make.
Activities are broken into 20 minute segments. Each numbered
activity below takes approximately 20 minutes. Completing all the Curriculum:
activities in this topic will take 40 minutes or more. Key competencies:
Using language, symbols
and texts
Suggested prior learning:
Principles:
4i Māori geographical terms Treaty of Waitangi
Values:
Possible learning activities: Diversity
1. Photocopy the Māori geographical term matching cards Geographic Key
enough times that you will have one copy per group. Cut out Concepts:
the individual cards. Break into small groups. Match Perspectives
vocabulary words with their correct meaning. Review the Geographic skills:
correct answers and discuss each concept. Valuing skills
Māori geographic
2. Create posters depicting the meaning of each word and post concepts:
on classroom walls. While working on posters discuss Tino rangatiratanga; Mana
concepts and explore the idea that it is difficult to gain full whenua; Kaitiakitanga;
understanding of these words and concepts without any Whakapapa; Taonga;
Hekenga;
understanding of the Māori world view. Each word can best be Whakanohonoho;
understood from within the Māori world view. Whanaungatanga

Additional resources / activities: Assessment

opportunities:
 100 Māori words every New Zealander should know at Geography Achievement
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/tereo-100words Standards: All

Follow-on activities (found elsewhere in this resource): Sustainability tip!

5c Consent hearing role play (uses the Southern Pipeline

case study)
Laminate cards for
future use.

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Māori geographical terms matching cards
Adapted from NZQA Glossary of Māori terms

Love and empathy. It is an

attitude and an important
cultural value of Māori, derived
from a particular Māori view of
the natural world and the place
Aroha of Māori within it. Aroha is an
important concept that
underpins a Māori
environmental management
system.

Migration occurs to meet the

needs of Māori at any one time
Hekenga and in response to outside
forces.

A tribe who has particular

geographical boundaries
Iwi outlining the region in which
they have mana whenua
status.

Incantations or prayers for a

specific purpose, such as lifting
Karakia the tapu off an area of land in
order that it may be cultivated.

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 To “care for” the environment.
It is the sustainable use,
management and control of
Kaitiakitanga natural and physical resources
that are carried out to the
mutual benefit of people and
resources.

The concept of koha is related

to manaakitanga and the
appropriate acknowledgement
Koha of sharing hospitality and/or
information. Koha may take the
form of food, gifts or more
recently money.

A legend or story that explains

Kōrero pūrākau an event or activity.

The right to use, manage and

control land depends on the
protection of mana whenua.
Mana whenua is based on
Ahikā (iwi maintaining
Mana whenua residence in a particular place)
and is an important part of tino
rangatiratanga (self-
determination).

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 A concept that involves
hospitality and how visitors are
cared for. It is important that
Manaakitanga such hospitality is
acknowledged and
reciprocated.

Derived from spirituality, land

and ancestral linkages of a
person, of people or a taonga
and manifests itself as the
respect, which is paid to that
person, those people or that
taonga as a result of the
Mana esteem accorded by others.
The practice of kaitiakitanga is
carried out by iwi and hapū,
through exercising iwi and
hapū mana, which is embodied
in the concept of Tino
Rangatiratanga.

A process of formally
acknowledging people you
meet, the purpose of the
Mihi meeting and the place (where
the meeting is being held),
through protocols set by the
iwi.

The customs and traditions

Tikanga Māori Māori live by and practise
within the environment.

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 Is the state of being sacred or
special. All taonga are tapu.
The tapu of taonga needs to
be removed temporarily in
some cases before people can
Tapu / noa make use of, or tend them.
Karakia are important for the
removal of tapu and rendering
the taonga noa (free of tapu,
contactable or useable).

A resource either physical or

cultural that can be found in
the environment (including
features within the
Taonga environment – lakes,
mountains, rivers, also
including people, te reo,
whakapapa etc.).

Includes the rights,

responsibilities and obligations
Tino rangatiratanga involving the use, management
and control of the land and
other resources.

The geneaology of a taonga or

person (ancestral and/or
Whakapapa historical) with linkages to
other taonga or persons.

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 Māori share a common
whakapapa with other
people/taonga and therefore a
strong sense of responsibility
and reciprocal obligations
toward those people/taonga.
This forms an important part of
Whanaungatanga a holistic world view. All taonga
are interrelated, interconnected
and interdependent. The life
force (mauri) of taonga must
be protected. The sustainable
management of taonga is
therefore paramount to our
survival.

Māori settlement was chiefly

governed by access to
Whakanohonoho resources.

Life force or life principle. The

energy which binds and
Mauri animates all things in the
physical world.

Place where one has rights of

residence and belonging
Tūrangawaewae through kinship and
whakapapa.

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