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General Māori Culture

These books cover a general range of topics on Māori topics:

Tangata whenua: the world of the Māori

Ki te whaiao: an introduction to Māori culture and society

Tikanga Māori: Living by Māori values

Tikanga Whakaaro

Family/Attitutes towards elders

This book looks at many aspects of the Māori whanau/family:

New growth from old: the whānau in the modern world

This one has a chapter on older Māori and whānau: Launching Māori futures

Death

These books contains a chapter on death and mourning:

Te ao hurihuri

Tikanga Māori: Living by Māori values 

Beauty and sexuality

A useful book could be Bitter sweet : indigenous women in the Pacific. It contains chapters on beauty, sexuality, reflections, cultural identity of not only Maori woman but woman from the Pacific Islands as well.

Another relevant book is State of the Māori nation : twenty-first century issues in Aotearoa, which contains the chapter 'Māori literature : the power and the beauty'. It also contains an article on Maori sexuality as well as an article on the Maori war dance the Kapa Haka, which might provide you with information on facial expressions.

Māori Music from Christchurch City Libraries

Weaving includes an online resource on how to make a putiputi flower from Christchurch City Libraries

Kai (Food)

Matariki (Maori New Year) page from Christchurch City Libraries, including a downloadable teacher resource

Rokoa/Rongoa (Maori medicine) a resource from Te Papa

Ta Moko a resource from Te Papa

Treaty2U a teacher resource which accompanied the exhibition, includes teaching activities

Māori education kits from the Auckland Museum

Powhiri This site is an interactive resource which introduces the concepts and practices which take place in a powhiri. This resource was developed by Nga Puhi, but many of the elements apply in other tribal areas.

Weather lesson plans and activities: Weather activity and vocabulary from Mana kids online. Senior lesson plan and Junior lesson plan (both from TKI website)