The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks (Māori: Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport.
Founded in 1910, the high-performing Māori All Blacks team is a pipeline for future All Blacks and a dominant force in its own right. All players must have Māori whakapapa (genealogy) confirmed in order to represent the side.
Māori All Blacks
The first to wear the famous black jersey, the side was originally conceived as an all-Maori selection and ultimately included just five non-Māori players in its ranks. Defeating many internationals sides, including the British and Irish Lions, England and Ireland.
Rugby union team that traditionally plays teams touring New Zealand. A prerequisite for playing in this team is that the player is to be at least one-sixteenth (i.e. one great-great-grandparent) Maori descent. In the past this rule was not strictly applied.
Originally, the haka was only performed by the All Blacks when they played overseas. It wasn't until 1986 that the haka was included in home matches. From then on, the haka was taken more seriously by the All Blacks and performed with the precision, respect and passion that it is known for today.
Non-Māori are welcome to learn the haka; however, it's important that you respect the culture and traditions behind the dance.
The Māori All Blacks, previously called the New Zealand Maori, New Zealand Maoris and New Zealand Natives, are a rugby union team from New Zealand. They are a representative team of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and a prerequisite for playing is that the player has Māori whakapapa (genealogy).
However, The Concise Māori Dictionary (Kāretu, 1990) defines the word Pākehā as 'foreign, foreigner (usually applied to white person)', while the English–Māori, Māori–English Dictionary (Biggs, 1990) defines Pākehā as 'white (person)'. Sometimes the term applies more widely to include all non-Māori.
Pakeha-Maori
Pakeha, which is a Maori term for the white inhabitants of New Zealand, was in vogue even prior to 1815.
Maori tradition also makes it clear that the tangata whenua were light skinned with fair or reddish hair and in some cases, blue eyes. The Te Arawa tribes that moved to Rotorua and Taupo found people already inhabiting these areas.
Some of us are dark skinned, with dark hair, while some are blonde with blue eyes. Being Māori is not a dichotomy – we cannot categorise Maori into 'black' or 'white' because Kiwi identities are complex, and being Māori is about more than a skin colour.
The Maori people all belong to the Polynesian race. They are racial cousins to the native peoples who live on the islands within the Polynesian triangle. All these people, including the Maori, have similar customs and social life.
Māori are the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Although New Zealand has adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights of the Māori population remain unfulfilled.
Are Maoris and Australian aboriginals related? The Maori of New Zealand (NZ) and the Aborigines of Australia are not related in modern contexts. The Aborigines came to Australia about 40,000 years ago from Africa while the Maori came to NZ about 1,000 years ago from Polynesia.
Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ( listen)) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350.
Name. The New Zealand test side was not always called the All Blacks, (in the early days they were called Maorilanders, the New Zealanders or even the Colonials), they were given that name during their famous 1905 tour to the British Isles, France and Canada.
Historians and language experts agree that the original meaning of the word Pākehā is most likely to be 'pale, imaginary beings resembling men', referring to a sea-dwelling, godlike people in Māori mythology. It has been used to describe Europeans, and then New Zealanders of European descent since before 1815.
European New Zealanders (Pākehā) are a European ethnic group. It includes New Zealanders of European descent, European peoples (e.g. British, Dutch, German, Russian), and other peoples of indirect European descent (e.g. Americans, Canadians, South Africans and Australians).
/ (ˈpɑːkɪˌhɑː) / noun. (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Māori ancestry, esp a White person.
Māori have always called European New Zealanders 'Pākehā', but they are also sometimes colonialists, imperialists and tauiwi (strangers).
Maori culture is the culture of the Maori of New Zealand and forms a idiosyncratic part of New Zealand culture. Pakeha culture mainly derived from the British settlers who colonized New Zealand. Maori is the ofiicial language of New Zealand. Pakeha is basically a language of Maori used in New Zealand.
'Pākehā–Māori' was the 19th-century term for Europeans who chose to live among Māori as part of the tribe. Some were traders, whalers and sealers looking to make money in New Zealand, and others were runaway seamen and escaped convicts from Australia.
Top All Blacks are reportedly paid around $1 million per year.
Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is the contemporary Māori-language name for New Zealand.
Acknowledging whakapapa and playing with a spirit of audacity makes the Māori All Blacks more than just a generic rugby team. Despite little time together, the Māori All Blacks scored a memorable 32-17 victory over Ireland on June 29 in Hamilton.