NEW ZEALAND

KIWI PEOPLE
NEW ZEALAND
TWO MAJOR ISLANDS
(NORTH AND SOUTH) LOCATED IN
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN

MANY SMALLER MOUNTAINOUS
ISLANDS

POPULATION OF 4.0 MILLION

85% ARE EUROPEAN

MAORI HERITAGE (POLYNESIAN
ROOTS) - A MINORITY TODAY
(OF LESS THAN 400,000 = 10%)
Predominantly mountainous terrain

Lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0m

Highest point: Mount Cook 3764m

Temperate climate with sharp regional
contrasts

GEOGRAPHY
MOUNT COOK (3764m)
Polynesian Maori arrived around AD800

In 1642 the first of the European explorers, Abel Tasman from
Holland, sails into New Zealand waters

Became British colony in 1840 (Treaty of Waitangi was signed by
over 500 Maori chiefs)

However in the 1860s, land wars began to erupt because the
Pakeha people white strangers were trying to take their land.

Led to the Maori King movement protecting lands by uniting
under a paramount chief

Land wars between 1843-1872 ended with defeat of native
peoples

Became independent dominion in 1907

HISTORY
MAORI PEOPLE People of the Land
MAORI
TATOOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNQZCF9yfE

Until the 19
th
Century, Maori transferred
history down the generations by word-of-mouth
(Especially through song and dance)

The Beginning Nothingness and after nine
nothingnesses became the dawn. From the
womb of the darkness came the Sky father and
the Earth mother. They had 6 children: god of
the winds, god of the forest, etc They
separated their parents and there became
light. All the children were male so the sky
father created a woman out of soil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BoNmpvkav
o&feature=related (Maori life dance)


MAORI MYTHOLOGY
Spirituality everyone has an active life force, soul and
spirit, and personal spiritual prestige and power

Land Mountains and rivers = tribal boundaries.
Mountains were personified and became part of their
social identity

Hospitality People are the most important things in the
world

Ancestors Proper respect to ancestors is important

Largely a collective society, not individualistic

KEY VALUES OF MAORI CULTURE
A body should not be left on its own after death.
They place them on the marae (sacred place)
where it can be watched over by their relatives
until burial
They will leave the coffin open so they can touch
and weep over the body in order to relieve
emotional pain.
The funeral speeches are made directly to the
body because they believe that the spirit does
not leave the body till burial
Dead bodies of chiefs are left exposed on
platforms until flesh rots and they take certain
bones and clean them and paint them red and put
them in a burial chest and place in a cave or other
sacred sites.

DEATH
ABEL TASMAN National Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjf1ZdexsR0

No native mammals apart from bats and
marine mammals
Virtually all the native insects are found
nowhere else
Unique species of birds include kiwi,
kakapo and weka
Seven penguin species

WILDLIFE
BIRDS
KIWI
KAKAPO
BIRDS
WEKA
CITIES
CITIES WELLINGTON (CAPITAL)
AUCKLAND
ROTORUA city
ROTORUA - lake
ROTORUA - hydrothermal activity everywhere
ROTORUA - GEYSERS
CHRISTCHURCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9b2IVo
584o&feature=related


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