In Navigating the Stars: Maori creation myths Witi Ihimaera shows how we have always been storytellers, intellectuals and ...

‘Puckarooed’ is a corruption of the Maori word ‘pakaru’, meaning the car is ‘broken’ or ‘ruined,’ which is another way of saying the same car has ‘sucked the kumara ...

Mānuka, in fact, is a Maori word. "The plant itself is very rare. It's difficult to harvest because the flower is only open for 12 days, and sometimes we have to use helicopters to collect this ...

Although haka is the Māori word for dance, it is not a dance in the ... Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand (Aotearoa) - the Maori people. It was designed to replicate the opponents with ...