New Zealand more than Zorbing Nov 6, 2009
New Zealand: From Maori culture to Zorbing - Down Under and beyond- msnbc ... But I have since concluded that while Kiwis may be best known for adventure tourism including skydiving, bungee jumping, gliding and Zorbing perhaps the most enriching part of my trip was the cultural tourism that taught me about the Maori ... Don't be fooled: Meeting a Maori tribe at a heritage center can be just as intimidating as thrill-jumping off Auckland's Skytower. (MSNBC -- Travel)
15 minutes with Cory Christiansen (6) Oct 28, 2009
We took language classes in Maori, the native language; explored native flora and fauna; visited many historic and. sacred sites about the islands and befriended a host of New Zealanders (or Kiwis) who will remain lifelong friends. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Holland America Line's Volendam Returns to Asia and Down Under in 2011 With a Widespread Array of Itineraries - Including the Great Barrier Reef Oct 13, 2009
Guests can experience the Maori culture when the ship calls at Tauranga and experience the novelty of less-visited ports such as Burnie, Australia. For those looking for a more in-depth experience, pre- or post-cruise land tours take guests to the Great Barrier Reef or Alice Springs. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Top Tourist Sites in Auckland Oct 7, 2009
The museum also houses what is probably the best collection of Pacific Island exhibits anywhere in the world that allows the visitor to explore the diversity of Pacific peoples and also learn about the culture of the Maori, who were the original inhabitants of this country before European colonization. A highlight for overseas visitors is the Maori cultural performance that takes place three times each day. (Suite101.com)
Crooks 'R' Us Sep 20, 2009
The roaring '20s were not politically correct times with Charles Darkie Clarke, a Maori and well-known card sharper; Percy Jewey Jacobs who worked inside that endless goldmine, the Post Office; William Split Lip Thompson, who was reported, ironically, to be well spoken. One of my favourites was Percy Perce the Pansy McDonald, described as a breaker, thief, receiver, perjurer, jail escapee, red-baiter, bully, blowhard and lifelong buffoon. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
High school teams in haka showdown Sep 8, 2009
Nobody seemed to care that Trinity's original haka was actually from New Zealand's native Maori culture, which originated the dance more than 200 years ago. Now that the novelty is gone, Trinity players and coaches are learning more about the haka. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Dallas-area school has new dance for haka showdown Sep 7, 2009
Nobody seemed to care that Trinity s original haka was actually from New Zealand s native Maori culture, which originated the dance more than 200 years ago. Now that the novelty is gone, Trinity players and coaches are learning more about the haka. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Family-focused 'Ha' full of theatrical splendor Sep 5, 2009
What separates "Ha" (its English subtitle is "The Breath of Life") from past voyages is the new storytelling convention, with a fictional but universal tale of values and heritage and tradition, involving the birth of a boy linked by transpacific voyages to the various cultures of Tonga, Hawai'i, Aotearoa (Maori New Zealand), Samoa, Tahiti and Fiji. It is a spectacle in every respect, briefly told in an animated prelude initially flashed on a hanging screen in the center of the performance... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Google surfs the Web in Hawaiian language Aug 27, 2009
Recent other languages like this include Maori language. " It was the Maori project, launched last year, that actually helped get Donaghy's initiative off the ground. Three years ago, Donaghy started e-mailing and calling Google about a Hawaiian language project, but he got no response. He put the project on hold until last year. "When I heard the Maori version came out, I asked Google about it," Donaghy said. "Apparently the original (language) coordinator had gone and as soon as a new... (CNN)
New Zealanders: once were Australians, but never should be again Aug 20, 2009
Then, Sydney was the centre of a rapidly growing British colony while New Zealand remained the domain of the Maori. The Maori tribes were at war with each other, egged on by a motley band of Europeans, including escaped convicts, whalers and land sharks, who gave the Maori weapons in exchange for land ... Hobson's mission was to sign the Maori chiefs to a treaty, whereby they recognised Queen Victoria in return for protection and compensation for any land surrendered. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Police hit roadblock in Dinsdale case Aug 19, 2009
Hundreds visited - including Maori from Sydney and New Zealand. Isaac's brother, John Dinsdale, who lives in the family's home town of Te Puke, came to retrieve the body. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Everton FC blasted for haka rip-off Aug 10, 2009
The Everton Football Club has hired Maori dancers to perform the dance as Everton and Arsenal run onto the park at Liverpool on Saturday. Club management has vowed to go ahead with it despite written threats from a leading Maori lawyer that the dance trespasses on Maori rights and disrespects their cultural heritage ... "People overseas need to know Maori culture isn't just up for grabs," said Solomon, who represents three Maori tribes who are making an intellectual property rights claim on the... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Vacation in Rotorua, New Zealand Jul 17, 2009
Located on New Zealand s North Island, the town of Rotorua is often considered the core essence of Maori culture ... More than a simple amble through the park, the village is an experience in Maori culture ... The village also has cultural performances every day, for Maori descendants to showcase their native traditions including the world-famous haka. (Suite101.com)
Te Papa boss Seddon Bennington found dead Jul 15, 2009
" Earlier today, two helicopter loads of searchers were transported into the Tararua Ranges to search for the pair, who had set off from Otaki Forks on Saturday for Kime Hut, about 10 kilometres into the range, but failed to return on Sunday afternoon as planned. They spent a fourth night in the bush last night, as museum staff prayed for their safe return. A karakia (prayer) for the pair was said in Maori at the museum's Formula One exhibition opening last night. Their families were this... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Naming Places Jul 10, 2009
New Zealand Maori and Naming ... In Maori culture the question "No hea koe? (Where are you from?) is an important one, and hapu (sub-tribes) are associated with particular mountain and rivers. The stories of elders are key to unlocking the significance of place names. In a forward to the Urlich/Penfold book, Shane Jones observes: "A great deal of our Maori oral heritage has disappeared with the passing of each generation ... That became the Maori name of what is today called Spirits Bay. (Suite101.com)
Alice Indigenous students to tour NZ Jul 5, 2009
She says the students will be able to compare the Maori culture with Indigenous cultures in Alice Springs. "When they come back they ... can contrast and look at the similarities and the differences and look at how their ... own culture is reflected here in Alice Springs and how strong the Maori culture is over there," she said. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Indigenous)
D.C. lu'au could be boon for tourism Jun 24, 2009
Tihatiperformances draw on the traditions of Hawai'i, Samoa, Tahiti, Fiji, the Cook Islands and Maori New Zealand. To fill out the cast for this special performance, the Thompsons raided Tihati productions at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, The Royal Hawaiian, the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the Hyatt Regency Maui, the Hyatt Regency Kaua'i and the Waikoloa Marriott. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Elders sign up to reconcile offenders and victims May 25, 2009
Campbelltown Local Area Command Police Ethnic Community Liason officers with Samoan elders and members of the Australian Pacific Maori Community Services patrol the local shopping centre. Photo: Jon Reid. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Roos keeping haka response plan a secret May 8, 2009
IT TOOK Steve Price 24 hours of pain, comprising three weekly eight-hour stints, to get the Maori-style tattoo he had done after the disappearance of Warriors teammate Sonny Fai earlier this year ... Aside from the Maori koru and Samoan patterns it also has a Celtic weave and Aboriginal artwork - in the form of kangaroo feet and convict signs - to signify his Welsh, Scottish and English heritage and the fact he remains a proud Australian ... "Maori tattoos are very popular but this represents my... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Rotorua is Geothermal Capital, Maor... Apr 28, 2009
Rotorua is Geothermal Capital, Maori Heartland: Highlights of New Zealand's Hotbed of Volcanic and Cultural Activity ... Rotorua is Geothermal Capital, Maori Heartland ... Rotorua is Geothermal Capital, Maori Heartland. (Suite101.com)
Maori tastes make the menu Apr 19, 2009
Head for the eco-friendly Treetops, a high-end wilderness resort where you can sign up for Royal's Maori Indigenous Food Trail, an unusual walk in the woods. Royal will show you the good stuff as he rushes along snipping and digging up edibles that are used in meals and as medicines in native Maori culture. (Boston Globe)
Lost language Apr 14, 2009
Other indigenous dialects in Australia have been revived but the revitalisation process may require what experts describe as "language engineering" - the borrowing of phrases and words or the coining of new vocabulary for a modern world in ways similar to those undertaken by New Zealand's Maori and the Hawaiians. "I often compare Aboriginal languages to something somewhere between Japanese and Latin. That surprises people because the gut approach is to go for something primitive and simplistic... (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Roy Masters: Apr 11, 2009
Forty per cent of NRL players are of Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Maori, Cook Island or indigenous heritage - but over half of the code's elite under-20 league and two-thirds of junior representative players from western Sydney are of Pacific Island descent ... South Sydney, unable to secure the signatures of State of Origin players such as Matt Orford and Braith Anasta, charted a Polynesian course, appointing a Samoan, Roy Asotasi, and a Maori, David Kidwell, as co-captains ... While three clubs... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Fact Bites for Visitors to New Zeal... Apr 7, 2009
Rotorua is also a significant region for Maori culture and heritage, and there are several who concentrate on this experience. New Zealand has 18,000km of Coastline and Many Inland Waterways. (Suite101.com)
Painting, Landscape and Community Apr 3, 2009
There are more than 1000 professional artists (including visual as well as performing and literary artists, and specialists in toi Maori, or Maori art forms) ... In the community itself, Te Ara Gallery has a diverse collection of photography and painting from 20 artists, and features stunning kete (woven carry bags, a Maori art form traditionally made from flax, sometimes dyed). (Suite101.com)
Dutch to return Ghana king's head Mar 21, 2009
In 2006, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland returned to New Zealand the preserved heads of nine tattooed Maori tribesman seized in the 19th Century. The same year, Britain's Natural History Museum returned the remains of 18 indigenous people taken from Australia. (BBC News)
Saru boots Watson proposal Mar 1, 2009
Watson's demands when he attempted to enlist the assistance of the government came just a week after Saru advised their New Zealand counterparts that the world famous Maori team is 'too racial' to play against the Springboks. He also claimed that he was not sure of SARU's commitment on the issue of a Super Rugby franchise in the Eastern Cape. (iAfrica.com)
Watson's 'black' franchise Mar 1, 2009
Just a week after the South African Rugby Union advised their New Zealand counterparts that the world famous Maori team is 'too racial' to play against the Springboks, Saru President's Council member Cheeky Watson revealed that he wants a new "black African" Super Rugby franchise in the Eastern Cape. Just last week Saru said in the statement that the racial make-up of the Maori team, scheduled to play the Boks in Soweto in June, was "fundamental stumbling block" that could prevent the game from... (iAfrica.com)
Touring New Zealand Feb 19, 2009
Back in Christchurch, there are all sorts of cultural discoveries to make, such as art galleries and wildlife reserves that host nightly local Maori performance. Keen punters can glide up and down the Avon River, which exudes that old-world charm that takes you back to 1930 s English aristocracy. (Suite101.com)
Film screening to mark Waitangi Day Feb 15, 2009
It was also the celebration of Waitangi Day, when Europeans and Maori people signed the Treaty of Waitangi on Feb. 6, 1842 ... Keisha-Castle Hughes stars in Whale Rider as a young girl, Paikea, trying to participate in the Maori culture ... It showcases traditional Maori songs (waiata) and dance (kapahaka). (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The SCANZ Exhibition Raranga Tangata Feb 12, 2009
The symposium will focus on weaving together Indigenous, Asian, Polynesian and Maori knowledge and belief systems in the context of new media technologies and art. Then on Sunday 8 February join the SCANZ artists at 11. (AbsoluteArts.com)
