However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

It also featured a friendship performance by a group of Maori living in Japan. Performance by a Maori group at the Ainu Thanksgiving Festival Shimada gave a rendition of an Ainu-language song from ...

known in Maori as tuna. Kites are also flown at Puanga to symbolize a connection between earth and sky, the physical world and the spirit world, those who are living and those who have passed away.

Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders with the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, and European settlers flooded in. Today, 70 percent of Kiwis, a common term for the people of New ...