TeAo Māori: Resources

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

Whenua Māori Visualisation Tool

The Whenua Māori Visualisation tool (Whenuaviz) combines the most up-to-date environmental and land resource data from Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research with the updated property and legal data from Māori Land Online (Ministry of Justice).
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Mā Ngā Mātanga Māori

Online platforms and tools targeting Māori soil and land experts

Anei e whai ake nei ētahi rauemi whaihua pea.
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More online resources in this space

Check out our basic spatial visualisation package for iwi
Kaupapa Māori - Soil health and resilience: oneone ora, tangata ora programme
The whakapapa of soil (Stuff.co.nz)
Nga Raraunga mō nga Kaupapa Māori GIS Mahere (GIS Data sources for Māori GIS mapping projects)
Noke - Engineering our soils. About the ecological and cultural importance of earthworms (pdf)
Conserving Māori heritage

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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.
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Māori names for soils and land
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).
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Māori Soil classification
Historic image of 'Māori gravel land and pits'. Source: Rigg & Bruce (1923) The Maori gravel soil of Waimea West, Nelson, New Zealand. The Journal of the Polynesian Society 32(126): 85-93.
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).
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Māori Land use
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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.
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