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99 Cards in this Set
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ahuatanga |
Nature, form |
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ara |
path, track, road |
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ariki |
paramount, chief, lord |
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aroha |
love, kindness, compassion |
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haka |
war dance |
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hakari |
feast |
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hangi |
earth oven |
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hapa |
error, transgression |
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hapu |
sub-tribe, descendants, pregnant |
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hikoi |
peaceful, walk |
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hoko |
sell |
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hongi |
greet, press noses |
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hui |
assembly, gathering, meeting |
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iho |
heart, essence |
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iwi |
tribe, bone |
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kaimoana |
seafood |
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kainga |
home, place of residence |
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kaiwhakako |
teacher |
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kaitiaki |
keeper, guard, guardian, minder |
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kapa haka |
group of action song performers |
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karakia |
prayer, incantation |
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karanga |
call, ritual high-pitched call of welcome by women |
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kaumatua |
male elder |
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kaupapa |
plan, principle, philosophy |
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kawa |
protocol, etiquette |
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kawanatanga |
governor, governance |
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kete |
flax basket |
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kohanga reo |
language nest |
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korero |
talk, speech, history, story |
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kotahitanga |
unification |
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kuia |
female elder |
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kumara |
sweet potato |
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kupapa |
Maori who fought on side of the Crown |
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mana |
authority, power, prestige, psychic force |
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manaaki |
hospitality, help, care for |
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manuhiri |
visitors, guests |
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maori |
normal, natural |
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marae |
courtyard in front of meeting house |
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matauranga |
knowledge, learning |
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matou |
we, us |
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mauri |
life force |
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mihi |
greet, formal speech of welcome |
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moa |
extinct fightless bird |
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moana |
sea, ocean |
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moko |
tattoo |
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moluhake |
discrete, separate, independant |
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nga |
the (plural) |
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nga, ngai, ngati |
tribal prefixes, descendants of |
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noa |
common, without sanctity or tapu |
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nohu |
sit, stay |
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pa |
barrier fortification |
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pahua |
invasion |
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Pakeha |
white man, European, imaginary beings with fair skin |
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pakeke |
Elder |
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patu |
club, beat, kill, defeat |
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poi |
flax ball on string used in posture dances |
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potiki |
youngest child |
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pou |
pillar, post |
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poupou |
carved posts inside meeting house |
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powhiri |
formal welcome to a marae |
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pupuri |
hold, retain |
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rahui |
prohibition, closed season |
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rangatahi |
youth, adolescents |
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rangatira |
chief |
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rangatiratanga |
chieftainship |
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ringa wera |
hot hands, cooks |
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rohe |
boundary |
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rongoa |
medicine, Maori medicinal plants |
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ruanga |
council, assembly |
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taiaha |
longstaff weapon |
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tukutai |
seashore |
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tangata |
man, human, person |
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tangi (hanga) |
cry, weep, funeral |
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taonga |
treasure, possession, gift |
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tapu |
sacred, prohibited, unclean |
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taurira |
student |
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tauiwi |
strange tribe, foreigner |
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te |
the (singular) |
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tikanga |
custom, rules |
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tiki |
carving of human form |
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tohunga |
priest, expert, shaman, sorcerer |
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toi |
origin, source of mankind |
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tonu |
continue, persist |
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uku |
clay |
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utu |
payment, compensation, revenge |
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wahi |
place, location, area |
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wai |
water |
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waiata |
song, chant |
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waka |
vessel, canoe |
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waka ama |
outrigger racing canoe |
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wanaga |
lore, occult knowledge, learning |
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whaikorero |
speech in reply to formal welcome |
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whakairo |
carve, carving |
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whakapapa |
geaneology |
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whanau |
birth, offspring, extended family |
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wharenui |
big house, meeting house |
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wharepuni |
dwelling house, meeting house |
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whawhai |
fight, struggle |
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whenua |
land, afterbirth, earth, country |
