Maori

Awa – River, stream, creek

Aatua/Atua – primal, primordial ancestors/ ancestor

Kainga – home, housing, settlement or village

Kaitiaki – tribal custodians and guardians, who can take a number of forms, spiritual (such as tribal taniwha), or physical (such as people who have been mandated to undertake specific roles or flora or fauna)

Kaitiakitanga – the practice of tribal custodial care and guardianship of whakapapa, taonga, knowledge, waterways, land and ecosystems

Kaumaatua/Kaumatua – elders/ elder, older people/person

Kaupapa – purpose, programme, theme

Te Waiohua – indigenous people/ tribes with customary territorial rights and authority, jurisdiction over land derived through the occupation of ancestral lands and the knowledge, traditions, practices and historical, physical and spiritual relationships sustained over many generations

Manaakitanga – hospitality, generosity and care. The process of according value and respect to people, place and nature

Mai i ngaa maunga ki te moana - mai te maataapuna ki te Maanuka ‘from the mountains to the sea – from the headwaters to the Manukau Harbour

Mana – prestige, authority, influence, status

Marae – the open area in front of a meeting house, Maaori or Te Waiohua community complex of cultural facilities

Maatauranga Maaori – Maaori knowledge systems, knowing and understanding of the world, nature and the universe and applied practice

Maataawaka – Maaori kinships groups, Maaori communities

Mauri – life essence, life force

Moko/Mokopuna – grandchild, grandchildren, descendants

Ngaa Taiao – nature, natural Environment

Papa-Tuu-Aa-Nuku – Mother Earth

Rangatahi – youth, young people/ person

Ranginui – Father Sky

Tamariki – children

Tangata – people/ person

Tangata Pasifika – people of Oceania and Pacific Island nations

Tangata whenua – people of the land, autochthonous, indigenous or first nation people

Tapu – sacred, prohibited, restricted

Taurahere – urban kinship group, tribal groups that retain their identity and links back to their tribal homelands

Te reo – voice, language, dialect

Tiaki – look after, care, protect, conserve, save

Tikanga – customary system of values and practices that have evolved over generations and are anchored within the ecological, social and cultural context of Te Waiohua and Maaori communities

Tuupuna/Tupuna – ancestors, grandparents/ ancestor, grandparent Waahi – area, Location, place

Waahi Tapu - places sacred to Maaori in the traditional, spiritual, religious, ritual or cosmological sense

Wai – water, stream, creek, river

Whakapapa – intergenerational symbiotic relationships between people, places and nature

Whaanau – family

Whenua – land, domain, territory, placenta and afterbirth