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acceptance in Māori culture

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    In Māori: Māori culture in the 21st century

    …right to be received as tangata whenua (“people of the land”) in the village of their ancestors. It means the acceptance of group membership and the shared recognition, with members of the group, of distinctly Māori ways of thinking and behaving. There has been some revival of the teaching of…

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