Word: maori
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...until just a few years ago, traces of a centuries-long conflict between New Zealand’s native culture and language, Maori, and the English language still lingered, spurring conflict between those citizens who yearned to modernize and those who chose to hold on to traditions, Shipley said...
...other legislators introduced a massive program to encourage equal funding for Maori and English-speaking schools, so that parents wishing to have their children grow up within the backdrop of long-held traditions felt encouraged...
...then had bright-eyed 5-year-old Maori students knowing who they were, and feeling much more confident about their culture,” Shipley said...
...wineries in the country's best-known wine region, plus a program of supporting events such as concerts, art exhibitions, farmers' markets and picnics. The season draws to a close in March, with Hooked on Seafood, held in Nelson on March 13, and the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival - celebrating Maori cuisine - scheduled for the same day. On the Wildfoods menu are seagull egg, cricket, mako shark, muttonbird and manuka pork. Not a chunk of flavorless cheddar in sight...
...countless players have combined imposing size and strength with a sprinter's speed, but none in the prodigious quantities that Lomu, age 19 in 1995, brought to bear. Lomu's apogee occurred in the semifinal against England. It's been suggested that as he was performing the pregame Maori war-dance, the haka, his opposite that day, Rory Underwood - in a moment of folly - enraged Lomu by winking at him. It's history that Lomu went on to score four tries - and Underwood lost skin and pride in various futile attempts to stop him. A kidney ailment will keep Lomu...