Teaching of Maori Language In New Zealand Schools by F. G. B. Keen The pre-European Maori of New Zealand would have thought of himself as a person in a group and this group identity as being associated with an area of land, a fixed and permanent locality relationship. Thus ‘identity’ to the Maori was not a matter of name, appearance, personality or wealth, but a matter of land. This fundamental ‘first relationship’ of Maori culture was tightly woven into every aspect of social and economic organisation. At public gatherings there were two groups of people, the ‘manuhiri’ — visitors, and the ‘tangata whenua’, literally, the ‘people of the land’, or local folk. At a Maori gathering of any significance today, these are still the common terms of reference, though subtly changed in meaning.
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Te Ao Hou, July 1969, Page 48
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