Tactile Stories : Audio and Video Excerpts

Jean Rangiiwhakakii Yern

Manga branch of water; tāwhiri tree. The branch of water with tāwhiri trees along its banks. We acknowledge this location at the foothills of the Hunua ranges as it provided fast flowing fresh water and taonga species to the iwi. Tāwhiri Karo, along with Kohukohu and Tarata belong to the pittosporum family of trees which is found throughout the Hunua Ecological district.

Māori translation
Koia tēnei te ingoa o te tangata whenua o Aotearoa. Kāore i te tino mōhio he aha te pūtake o tēnei ingoa, engari nā ngā Māori i tapa tēnei ingoa ki a rātou. 

Ko te kupu māori e korerotia ana mō ētahi atu mea pēnei, he wai māori, te ahua māori rānei. Ko te wai māori, koia te wai o ngā awa me ngā puna, te wai rānei o te ua. Ehara i te wai o ngā moana. 

Ko te āhua maori, koia te āhua o ngā mea o tēnei ao, arā, ehara i ngā mea i whai ritenga wairua anake. Koia te kikokikotanga o ngā mea katoa, ā tōna wā, ka mate haere, ka memeha noa. 

English translation
Māori; indigenous people of New Zealand. Māori is the name given to the indigenous people of New Zealand. The origin of the name is not known, but the Māori are supposed to have to reffered to themselves as such also. 

The word māori is also used as an adjective to denote anything in its natural state. Wai Māori, for example is fresh water, whether from springs, rivers, or rain water but not salt water from the sea that is different. 

The natural state reffered to in the word is temporal or physical nature of things in this world as opposed to the esoteric and spiritual elements of the world. It is the temporal, material aspect of all living things is subject to death and decay. 

Harete Tito

Tracey M. Bensen