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38 Cards in this Set
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Akaroa
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Long harbour
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Aotearoa
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Long white cloud (Māori name for New Zealand)
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Hokianga
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Returning
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Kaikōura
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To eat crayfish
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Kaitāia
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(Kaitatāia) Food thrown about
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Kapiti
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Crevice, joining
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Kawhia (Kaawhiawhi)
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To perform a ceremony
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Kōhanga Reo
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Māori preschool
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Kupe
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The great Polynesian navigator who discovered Aotearoa
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Kura Kaupapa
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Māori secondary school
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Mana
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Strength, prestige, power
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Manawatū
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Heart stood still
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Manukau
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Wading bird
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Māori
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Indigenous person of Aotearoa
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Motungārara
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Insect or lizard island
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Ōpōtiki
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The place of Potiki
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Otago
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Correctly: Otakou - the place of red earth or ochre
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Ōtaki
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To stick in (the place where the staff was stuck in the ground)
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Paihia
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Good here (partial transliteration)
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Pākehā
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White person
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Rangitoto
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Blood sky
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Rotorua
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(The) second lake
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Ruapuke
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Two hills
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Tāmaki
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Battle
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Tauranga
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Sheltered anchorage
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Te Herenga Waka
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The hitching post of the canoes
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Te Kaha
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The rope (or boundary line)
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Te Papa Tongarewa
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The Treasure Box (Our Place, The National Museum)
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Te Puni Kōkiri
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The group moving forward (the Ministry of Māori Development)
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Tokomaru
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An ancestral canoe, or a staff shelter
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Waiapu
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Swallowing water
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Waikanae
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Water, mullet (the glistening of the mullet)
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Waikato
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Flowing water
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Waimate
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Weeping water
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Waitangi
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Weeping water
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Wanganui
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(properly: Whanganui) Big harbour
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Whakarewarewa
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To prepare for war
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Whakatāne
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To act like a man
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