The History Of Roman

Witi Ihimaera
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM (born 7 February 1944), generally known as Witi Ihimaera, is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive. Ihimaera was born near Gisborne, a town in the east of New Zealand's North Island and is of Māori descent and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father, Tom. He attended Church College of NewZealand in Temple View, Hamilton, New Zealand. He was the first Māori writer to publish both a novel and a book of short stories. He began to work as a diplomat at theNew Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973, and served at various diplomatic posts in Canberra, New York, and Washington, D.C. Ihimaera remained at the Ministry until 1989, although his time there was broken byseveral fellowships at the University of Otago in 1975 and Victoria University of Wellington in 1982 (where he graduated with a BA). In 1990, he took up a position at the University of Auckland, where he became Professor, and Distinguished Creative Fellow in Māori Literature. He retired from this position in 2010. In 2004, his nephew Gary Christie Lewis married Lady Davina Windsor, becoming the first Māori to marryinto the British Royal Family.

Maori Cultures and Traditions
The Maori brought with them a Polynesian culture rich in song, dance, carving, and weaving, which was intertwined with strong oratory skills, as no written language was used.
The abundance of natural resources and well developed skills and knowledge enabled the Maori race and culture to flourish in Aotearoa.
The Maori have a closekinship with their environment. The basis of the Maori culture lies in its Polynesian belief of a divine direction in all matters. In the beginning a host of gods such as Tane Mahuta (God of the Forest) and Tangaroa (God of the Sea), and four others who are : wind, wild food, planted food, and mankind, were born to Rangi (the Sky Father) and Papa (the Earth Mother). They are remembered through songand dance. All mortal matters were subject to rules laid down by one or another of these godly children, issued as edicts through earthly priests called tohunga ahurewa . It is also the priest's duty to memorize their sacred chants and seeing that they were passed on to the next generation.
According to Traditions, most of the settlers landed on the east coast of the North Island. Their presentdescendants will still take you to the very spot described in the traditions as the first landfall. Many settled at the shores by the entrances of rivers. The Maoris steamed kai (food) in underground ovens , a circular hole in the ground filled with very hot stones, called hangi and this method is being used till today when entertaining large crowds of people. The Maoris cooked food such as fishand Kumara (something that looks like a small knobbly potato but sweeter) by wrapping them in leaves and steaming them over hot stones. A well-liked food at Maori feasts is kai moana or a wide variety of seafood collected from rocky reefs and sands along the coast, and river food such as eels, whitebait (a kind of tiny fish which swim together in large shoals) and freshwater crayfish. The Maoriknow when is the best time to gather sea eggs and little octopuses and they watch the phases of the moon to select the best time to go night fishing and eeling.

Maori Art
Most of the material objects of the Maori were highly decorated. Their statues and carvings, especially with filigree motifs, are admired worldwide and are the frequent subject of art museum exhibitions.

The Maori Wars
TheMaori Wars against the British were a product of imperialism, or more specifically, of colonisation. The two more immediate causes were racial antagonism and socio-economic competition, though these may be separated only for the purpose of analysis and exposition, the latter being the material and rational aspect, the former the irrational aspect, of a single complex rivalry. Perhaps the...