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- Whāngai adoption, often referred to simply as whāngai (literally, "to nourish"), is a traditional method of open adoption among the Māori people of New...
- Waititi (born 1985 or 1986) is a New Zealand film director and producer. The whāngai sister of Taika Waititi, she is best known for her work co-directing production...
- case of orphaned children, the child would be taken in by the process of whāngai adoption. This form of adoption is still practised and has some legal codification...
- as the Tahitians and Māori (in which culture the phenomenon is known as whāngai), have similar practices of adoptions. There is also a centuries-old ****anese...
- Matawai Group. It is conformably overlain by the Haumurian to Teurian Whangai Formation. It consist of three members, the Maungataniwha Sandstone Member...
- village of Pūtiki, on the Whanganui River, and was raised by a grandmother, whāngai parents and aunties. She was educated at Wanganui Girls' College, and trained...
- an earlier relationship. Known as Piki during her early life, she had whāngai-adopted siblings including Sir Robert Mahuta, whose daughter Nanaia Mahuta...
- Gardiner was born on 4 September 1943 in Whakatāne. He was brought up under whāngai, the Māori custom of open inner family adoption. He received his secondary...
- life, he took under whāngai arrangement with his sister Makareta, a distant relative and girl, Ngāropi Tūhata. He also took as whāngai, his biological nephew...
- Māori mourning practices.: 64–65  An important part of the celebration was whāngai i te hautapu, a ceremonial offering of food to the stars. The reasoning...