Maori Culture
By: Presley Shemelia and Kayla Reinert
Maori People Today
- The Maori people group take up 15% of New Zealand's population.
- 84% live in Urban areas, and 16% in rural areas.
- There are over 70,000 Maori people in Australia and 10,000 in Britain.
- The Maori language is an official language of New Zealand.
Maori War
- The Maori wars were also called the New Zealand wars or the land wars.
- They fought over possesions, and food, but the fight was mainly over their land.
- The Maori people had a traditional war dance that they did to intimidate their enemy.
- They mainly used muskets to fight these wars!
All Blacks - Haka - Ka Mate 1080p
Maori Religion
- During the late 1820s, the Maori people changed their moral practices, religious lives, and political thinking as they made Christianity their own.
- Many Maori Christians took their new faith seriously and practiced their faith in distinctively Maori ways.
- Some of the prophetic Maori religious movements were developed with a strong focus on withstanding the loss of Maori land.
- After taking large areas of land, the secular colonial state sometimes punished Maori religious movements that posed a symbolic or practical threat.
Resources Used
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/maori/page-1http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/religion-and-society/page-4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Warshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Wars