TeAo Māori: Resources

A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook

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This collection of essays, profiles and recipes shines a light on Māori relationships with soil and the connections between soil and food security, and frames these links within tino rangatiratanga from a variety of Māori perspectives. Edited by Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) and Jo Smith (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) (Free Range Press, August 2020).

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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).

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).

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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