Search results tagged: Māori (7)

• Māori agriculture

  Collective evidence provides insight into the past activities of Māori and indicates a progressive and developmental move towards gardening and horticultural practice, signalling an advance in kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and maara kai (gardening).

• Te Ao Māori: History

  Māori have had a long connection with and understanding of soil, reaching back centuries to Polynesian migration. The knowledge (mātauranga Māori, mōhiotanga, māramatanga, tohungatanga) is ancient, traditional, and historical, as well as contemporary.

• Te Ao Māori: Resources

  View our online resources.

• Māori names

  There are over 100 traditional Māori names for soil, and most parts of the landscape are described in detail, with many descriptors (e.g. for degrees of wetness, stoniness, texture, colour).

• Whenua Māori Visualisation Tool

  This website is intended to help Māori land owners and managers find out more about the physical characteristics, constraints and potential of their whenua Māori.

• Te Ao Māori: References

  The reference page allows you to identify and retrieve each work cited in the text. It also gives credit to authors we have consulted for their ideas.

• Soils in te Ao Māori

  Find out about the mana of the soil, and soil health from a kaupapa Māori perspective. Māori have had a long connection with and understanding of soil, reaching back centuries to Polynesian migration. The knowledge (mātauranga Māori, mōhiotanga, māramatanga, tohungatanga) is ancient, traditional, and historical as well as contemporary.