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"I think what iwi do prefer is that we have a kind of tikanga title, that we actually keep the mana that our ancestors had before."
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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"tikanga" used by the Waitangi Tribunal in its report on the Crown's foreshore and seabed policy:
NZ On Screen 2010
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May. 16th, 2010 05: 48 am (UTC) perhaps it was meant to be an indicator of post-colonial Māori society, the influence of Christianity on tikanga and the loss of status Māori women and girls have endured over those years.
The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera karenhealey 2010
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My stepkids were present, other family members, and the wonderful Peter Kitchen, a former successful businessman, a healer, and a person wise in the ways of māoritanga, and tikanga doing what is right and proper.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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My stepkids were present, other family members, and the wonderful Peter Kitchen, a former successful businessman, a healer, and a person wise in the ways of māoritanga, and tikanga doing what is right and proper.
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In the High Court at Wellington on August 14 last year, Justice Simon France made it a condition of their community-based sentences that all five whanau members undertake tikanga
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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They've helped us to establish our tikanga when it comes to garden work.
NZ On Screen 2010
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From a tikanga basis we might say that Maramatanga is the highest form of knowing; it is literally the world of light and illumination.
NZ On Screen 2010
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"Na comes from a very kaupapa Maori-based background rich in tikanga and he knows what the important issues are for this electorate and the whanau, hapu and iwi within it," Mrs Walker said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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This bill determines that the Arts Council will consist of 13 members who will be appointed by the Minister, and that at least four persons must be acknowledged as people who have qualified for appointment because they have at least a regard for, or understanding and knowledge of, Te Ao Māori, tikanga Māori, and Māori arts.
NZ On Screen 2010
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All of Te Hiku’s work is released under what it named the Kaitiakitanga License, a legal guarantee of guardianship and custodianship that ensures that all the data that went into the language model and other projects remains the property of the community that created it – in this case, the Māori speakers who offered their help – and is theirs to license, or not, as they deem appropriate according to their tikanga (Māori customs and protocols).
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